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By Laurie Nichols
(Editor’s note: As we enter Holy Week, we’re holding space for the parts of the story that feel unresolved — the places where loss lingers and hope is hard to see. These reflections by our CSA staff invite us to pay attention to what God may be doing in the middle of it, not just after it.)
“Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.” (Prov.
By Jacques Ellul
Unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or other ‘their blood cries to heaven,’ and violence will seem the only way out.
By Pieter Niemeyer
Is it really the responsibility of LGBTQ+ people to be brave and come out, or is it the responsibility of straight people to make safe places for all, and not just themselves?
By John Seel with Ray Pennings
Henry Van Til observes that “culture is religion externalized.” By this, he meant that the culture of a people reflects their true religious priorities. So the existence of civil religion is not ultimately surprising.
By Seth Haines
In the late summer, some years ago, I woke one morning to a lavish Christian hangover.
Though it’s still difficult to accept the moniker alcoholic, I know that I am, in the most colloquial sense, dependent.
By Sarah Withrow King
Picture a minimum-wage worker. What do you see? My worker is a woman, a girl really. Her hair is in a ponytail underneath a red visor, and she’s working a fast food job after high school to pay for her car insurance, the occasional brand-name pair of jeans, and Saturday night movies with friends.
By Michael Carlson
For those of us who profess to be Christians, it is a good question to ask ourselves these days: “What are we thinking about?”
Over the past year and a half, I have become increasingly interested in what’s going on in our nation.
By Beth Malena
Watch Beth Malena’s Sunday morning sermon from the Ontario Generous Space retreat last month!
“Instead of sucking up to the other rabbis and powerful people, playing their games, Jesus called them whitewashed tombs.
By Melanie Springer Mock
My husband bought me a new road bike for Mother’s Day last year. I’d been asking for one and he finally relented, though he knew purchasing a bike for me meant introducing all kinds of new ways he could worry about me, especially as the country roads around our small town are sometimes unkind to cyclists.
By Julie Rodgers
Most of our current conversations about LGBT people in the church focus on theology. Theology is important, but in our focus on a theology of sex and marriage, we often neglect
By Micky ScottBey Jones
Another hashtag was created tonight for someone who died at the hands of state-sanctioned violence. I don’t want to date this review by including the name, and by the time you read this, the hashtag memorial will probably have been replaced by another…
By Jo Kadlecek
“A sound of quick steps broke the silence of the moor. Crouching among the stones we stared intently at the silver moon-tipped bank in front of us. The steps grew louder, and through the fog, as through a curtain, there stepped the man whom we were awaiting.
Featuring Kristyn Komarnicki and Jessieh Ruth Averitt
A conversation about pornography, sex, agency, and what sexual freedom might look like
By Rachel Covert
Nearly 550,000 people sleep on the street every night in the US. One particular issue that has occupied the attention of the media lately is the plight of children and adolescents who are without homes.
By Sarah Withrow King
Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of teaming up with Christopher Carter, who is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Diego, a Faith in Food Fellow for Farm Forward,
By Anna Redsand
A Review of Native Americans, the Mainline Church, and the Quest for Interracial Justice
A rectangular pit lined with dressed stones stands on a low hill in Toadlena, New Mexico, near the center of the Navajo Nation.
By G.K. Chesterton
For at present we all tend to one mistake; we tend to make politics too important. We tend to forget how huge a part of a man’s life is the same under a Sultan and a Senate, under Nero or St Louis.