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By John Seel
They received a warning, in fact nine warnings, but they were largely ignored. After the RMS Titanic received the iceberg alert, Captain Edward J. Smith made an incremental change in response, turning to a slightly southern course.
By Drick Boyd
White people, like myself, need to recognize our responsibility to talk with other white people about race, especially in light of current events and the increasing polarization in our nation around issues of race and ethnicity.
By Gregory Coles
A celibate gay Christian speaks of the pain that lies on both sides of the church’s closet door
By Aimee Fritz
The power of social media grows every day. According to Forbes, over 78% of Americans have a social network profile. More than three quarters of our population is doing some sort of image management or cyber-stalking when they’re online.
By Aimee Fritz
If you’re reading this, you’re online. You’ve chosen to spend some of your time (perhaps wisdom acquisition time?) on a website dedicated to social justice. Where will you click next? One of the dozens of links on this page?
By Aimee Fritz
Some people just love buying, collecting, and discussing books. But a recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that 26% of adults in the United States haven’t read a single book, in any format, in a year.
By Aimee Fritz
Our collective response to the August 2017 solar eclipse proves the power nature has to delight, humble, and unite us. When we soak in the transcendent beauty of a star, a planet, a mountain top, an ocean wave, or a newborn baby, we must acknowledge that we didn’t and couldn’t make those things happen.
By Aimee Fritz
In the best version of our world, the church is where we learn how to put the wisdom we glean from the Bible into action. No church is perfect, but so many churches are serving the people of God eagerly, with wisdom and grace.
Weeping may last for a night, but…
By Elrena Evans
The world is a broken place, and when I look around I see that brokenness writ large. White supremacists are marching in the streets. Floodwaters are seeping into the homes of people I love.
By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
A refugee from Bosnia, Muamer Cisija demonstrates that business can not only develop economies, but it can also bring people together in powerful ways.
By Laura Markle Downton
Editor’s Note: This week, we are reposting CSA staff selections of the most memorable articles of 2017. Today’s selection was chosen by Kristyn Komarnicki, Director of Dialogue and Convening for CSA.
By Katelyn Durst
The many tunnels
honeycomb me in
one by one,
I become frozen in deep blue.
I become noisy as a bee cloud.
I become holy like a rooted tree.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Here’s an honest admission: Several times while reading Lily Burana’s new book Grace for Amateurs: Field Notes on a Journey Back to Faith, I consulted the copyright page, confirming again that Grace for Amateurs was really published by Thomas Nelson, the notoriously evangelical (and, in my mind, notoriously traditional) press.
By Katelyn Durst
This year began with tears
dark nights where there was
no teapot whistling on the stove to
keep us warm.
Many of us had hopes and dreams
but they were dashed like an ocean
wave across a rocky coast.
By Allison Duncan
Cute middle school kids filed onto the risers for the charter school holiday concert. Boys with hair slicked back, girls with Mom’s bright pink lipstick a bit clumsily applied. Some surveyed the audience, grinned once they located a relative, and waved shyly.
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