This Online Articles area (formerly our Library) gathers reflections, op-eds, and essays that engage the pressing questions of faith, justice, and public life. Here, you’ll find hundreds of thoughtful and engaging pieces from scholars, practitioners, and everyday Christians — leaders and writers who bring fresh insight and faithful imagination. These articles are meant to spark deeper discipleship, fuel courageous action, and equip the church to embody the gospel in a complex world. We invite you to explore, learn, and join the ongoing conversation toward a fuller expression of Christian faithfulness and a more just society.
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By Scott Bessenecker
I had a dream that I was eating at an outdoor café in Mexico City. I watched a man going from table to table, presumably asking for handouts. He had a young girl with him.
By Micky ScottBey Jones
As we exited Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, the sun was setting and the valley was covered in pink and orange light. It was so crowded that I quickly snapped a photo and stepped back, feeling uneasy about the question posed to us by our guide: “What will you do to make sure this never happens again?”
As I traveled throughout Israel and Palestine, I kept thinking about Rachel weeping in the wilderness, which we hear about both from sacred texts and from several traditions.
By Allison Duncan
The week before Easter, I go to confession with a whole two pages’ worth of sins I’ve been collecting throughout Lent. Pastor Beverly welcomes me into her office, and together we open the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer to the brief service of the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
By Sarah Withrow King
For many Christians, this is Holy Week, a week of the year that we set aside to consider the death and burial of Jesus Christ. We know that the tomb will be empty on Easter morning, but the people who walked with Jesus did not share our advantage of hindsight.
By Skot Welch, Rick Wilson, and Andi Cumbo-Floyd
When talking about race, have you ever heard—or made—any of these claims? Let’s examine these statements carefully.
By Sarah Withrow King
In early February, I had the pleasure of joining a few CSA colleagues to meet with a group of people who have spent many years living and/or working in North Korea.
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 the Muslim community.
By John Backman
Did Jesus ever lose his cool? Did he doubt his mission? Really, how human was Jesus—and what does the answer mean for us?
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.