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

I Think I’m Having a Resurrection Problem (Holy Week Series)

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.

On Violence

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.

Why My Coming Out Matters to You

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?

Civil Religion: Caution Is Advised

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.

We’re All Drunk on Something

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.

What Your Barista Isn’t Telling You

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.

Rise! A Sermon

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.

Church Policies About LGBT Christians

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

In Defense of Mystery

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.

Without a Home

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.

Recognition, Responsibility, Reconstruction, Reparation

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.

What is Right with the World

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.