The Witness Protection Program: When God’s People Go into Hiding
By Terence Lester, PhD, and Emiola Oriola Jr., EdD
“If you scared, go to church. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.” [1]
Ice Cube did not write those words as theology.
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By Terence Lester, PhD, and Emiola Oriola Jr., EdD
“If you scared, go to church. You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.” [1]
Ice Cube did not write those words as theology.
By Tim Timmerman
Five radical ways the church can provide real community for the sexual and gender minorities in their midst.
By Sarah Withrow King
What are we doing to animals? Specifically, what are we doing to farmed animals?
By Skot Welch, Rick Wilson, and Andi Cumbo-Floyd
We’ve all had those conversations: the ones about racism in which we feel that we don’t know what to say, we don’t feel heard, and we get our feelings hurt.
By Leroy Barber
The Voices Conference is an outgrowth of the Voices Project, whose mission is to affect culture by training and promoting leaders of color.
By Molly Lorden
During the season of Lent, Churches for Middle East Peace is focusing on Jerusalem as a city shared by three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This week, we look closer at the deep meaning Jerusalem holds for Christians.
By Marc Havener
The New Copernicans: Millennials and the Survival of the Church, by John Seel, has turned 2018 into a long-awaited answer to five years of questions and doubt about the church in which I was raised.
By Sarah Withrow King
Read Romans 8:18-25. How does Paul envision creation’s release from bondage in this passage? Where do humans and animals find a place in his vision?
By Drick Boyd
In this final installment on talking with white folks about race, I urge whites of conscience who seek to be allies in the struggle for racial justice to persist relentlessly to resist efforts to ignore or shut down conversations and other endeavors to address racism.
By Carolyn Custis James
We are living in a time of breathtaking reversals. When it comes to power and privilege and voice, the laws of social and cultural gravity are being defied.
By Kathy Khang
My first Bible lessons were taught in 2-D—flannel storyboards with cartoonish paper-cutout versions of Queen Esther and Baby Jesus. Everyone in the Bible was white, a generic Eastern European shade of nude, and everyone moved across the same flat plane of the flannel board.
By Sarah Withrow King
CSA’s Sarah Withrow King is running a series of devotionals during Lent, reflecting on what we believe about God’s creatures and how we might move toward living out those beliefs as members of the body of Christ.
By Sarah Withrow King
Full disclosure: until a few weeks ago, I was pretty ignorant about basically everything having to do with North Korea.
By Drick Boyd
When the topic of race comes up in conversation, white folks often express feelings of both guilt and powerlessness. Why?
Overwhelmed by guilt
Dr. Beverly Tatum, formerly a Professor of Psychology at Mt.
By Sarah Withrow King
What do we learn about the place of animals in creation? What role are humans given in relation to animals in this passage?
By Cheryl Miller
What happens when restorative justice principles are applied to Christian communities?
“Compassionate confrontation” was the term Dave Clark used to describe the style I use with the women at Perpetual Help Home, where I serve as director.
By Ron Sider
A giant of the faith has left us. Billy Graham is now in the presence of our Lord.
The most important thing to say about Billy Graham is that he loved his Lord with all his heart and lived a life of faithfulness and integrity.