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CSA’s free weekly publication, a carefully curated collection of original articles at the intersection of spiritual formation and social action.

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?

A New View of Mary and Martha

By Christine Sine

A couple of weeks ago, I read a fascinating article that talked about how chemical sprays—both pesticides and fertilizers—negatively impact beneficial insects by altering the electrical field around flowers, making bumblebees less likely to land on them for pollination.

Elrena Evans on Prayer and the Discomfort of Difference

By Elrena Evans

Originally posted April 21, 2022

We spoke with Elrena Evans about her new book, Special Grace: Prayers and Reflections for Families with Special Needs from InterVarsity Press. Below you’ll find our conversation, as well as an excerpt from Evans’ beautiful book.

Why Pilgrimage Has Become My Lenten Practice

By Nikki Toyama-Szeto

You can listen to an audio version of this piece here.

Walking the pathway, I wanted to look up at the stony landscape.  But the path was so pebbly that I had to keep my eyes on the ground to keep from stumbling. 

Confessions of a Total Lenten Failure

By Kristyn Komarnicki

You can listen to an audio version of this piece here.

From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.

John 1:16

I am a failure when it comes to spiritual disciplines.

Why, Between White Jesus and Me, One of Us Had to Die

By Tamice Spencer-Helms

It had been three years since Trayvon Martin was killed. I was living in Atlanta, Georgia, working full-time for a mostly white college ministry. And I was dying inside. 

I spent the three years after Trayvon died in perpetual despair.

Finding Our Place in the World

By David Clough
What emotions do you bring to worship this evening? Delight at glimpses of beauty and of love? Sadness at tragic loss? Anger at injustice? Resentment and bitterness about our lot?

Black Self-Care as Protest: Body Scan

By Rev. Da Saint

Originally published Feb 26, 2021

 
Black History Month Meditative Moment (3 of 3)
Join us for a 5-minute body scan to bring our body and spirit into congruence.

Mass Incarceration: A Gospel Response

By Bishop Ernest McNear and Reverend Lin Crowe
The statistics hang over the cities of America like a thick grey cloud, almost blotting out the light of hope and opportunity. One out of every nine young black males in the United States between the ages of twenty and thirty-four is behind bars.

Words of Advice to Faith-Inspired Activists

By Thomas Merton

The Big Results Are Not in Your Hands

Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.