On Saying Yes
By Kristyn Komarnicki
Advent is the season of yes. It’s all about God’s big yes to us.
Does God love us?
Is there hope for us in spite of our staggering deficiencies?
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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Advent is the season of yes. It’s all about God’s big yes to us.
Does God love us?
Is there hope for us in spite of our staggering deficiencies?
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Kristyn Komarnicki
Season 1, Episode 9
Rerun: Season 6, Episode 11.
This week, Nikki Toyama-Szeto talks with Kristyn Komarnicki (CSA’s Director of Dialogue & Convening / Program Manager for Oriented to Love) about practical tips for transforming conflict through curiosity.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Ron Sider
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Brandi Miller
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Candice Benbow
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Jenny Yang
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Cole Arthur Riley
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Drew Jackson
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By Natalia Kohn, Nemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Originally published January 15, 2019
Esther was a Jewish woman being raised by a cousin named Mordecai. The Jews were an ethnic minority community displaced and dispersed all over the provinces of King Xerxes of Persia.
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
In a church I used to attend, a sermon series through Paul’s letters to the Thessalonian church landed us one Sunday morning in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat’” (NIV).
By Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Originally published September 24, 2018
“No one with a brain really believes in religion,” the man declared.
It was an odd way to respond to my revelation that I was a seminary professor.
By Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Originally published October 2, 2017
Father, hallowed be your name. Your Kingdom come. Our daily bread give us today. And forgive us our debts, for we forgive our debtors.
By Matthew Tyson
It is through labor that we, as humans, make the world. In doing so, we make ourselves. We make reality. In this way, to solely commodify your labor and sell it in service of profit and capitalist competition can alienate you from your labor, and thus from yourself.
By Kristyn Komarnicki
In 1998, Ron Sider hired me as a part-time editor for PRISM magazine, Christians for Social Action’s flagship print publication at the time. It was the answer to a fervent prayer of mine, to do meaningful work that would not only integrate my faith but also grow it.
By Ben Lowe
I was introduced to Ron Sider at an event at Wheaton College and had a passing but lively chat about what I was working on at the time. Shortly after, I received one of Ron’s books from him in the mail, which he thought would be a helpful resource.
By Al Tizon
Dr. Ronald J. Sider passed away on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Tributes and articles regarding his legacy have cropped up everywhere from The New York Times to Christianity Today and a growing number of personal blog entries and Facebook posts in between.
By Ron Sider
I often fail to come even close to the submission and faithfulness prayed for here, but these words represent my desire. I hope you can make these words your sincere longing as well.
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