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CSA is thrilled to welcome Avril Speaks as Program Director for our new national initiative, the Storytellers Collective. A visionary filmmaker, producer, and educator based in Los Angeles, Avril brings deep experience in shaping stories that center truth, justice, and imagination.
By John M. Perkins
The people are getting together and looking at the gospel afresh with a keen awareness of its redemptive purpose. They are drawing this from a holistic perspective
By Eugene Cho
This is a difficult question to answer, because it’s hard to identify a single thing that gives me hope. But my answer to what I’m most hopeful about is also what
By Robyn Afrik
Honestly, when I look at the church today, it’s incredibly hard for me to be hopeful about her. Especially when all the noise points to the fighting, the arguments,
By Willie James Jennings
I see young people who are committed to Jesus and to living the life of faith, concretely in the everyday realities of political and social struggle.
By Brandan Robertson
Recently there has been a lot of talk about how the church is facing its death. Declining attendance, scandals, and culture wars are continually emerging,
By Christine Sine
My hope comes from two places. The first is in established churches like our local St Andrews’ Episcopal church, because it is passionate about issues of
By Kathy Escobar
When I look at the church today, there are a few things that are bringing me hope. The first is that there are more and more women emerging as
By Alexia Salvatierra
Immigrant churches fueled by reverse missionaries from the Global South are often vital and vibrant. Although they may not have a developed theology around justice,
By Phyllis Tickle
In a word, history. A new form of Christian ecclesiology, known today in all its many and varying presentations under the rubric of Emergence Christianity,
By Jon Weece
Our job description as followers of Jesus is to wash dirty feet. At the church where I serve, people see footwashing as a privilege—
By Maria-José Soerens
In 2013 the Senate passed a bipartisan bill for comprehensive immigration reform. However, the bill was stopped in the House when Speaker Boehner refused to bring it up for a vote, despite bipartisan support.
By Grace Sandra
I’m sitting on a double-decker, red-eye Megabus, Nashville bound, nonstop from Chicago. My friend bought me a ticket so I can join her at a retreat she created
By Jon M. Sweeney
I see in the church today a fresh sense of brokenness and uncertainty, a people who remember the hegemony of the past and the power-broking position
By Sarah Bessey
If I am intentional about holding space for the stories of pain and despair and wounding, I am also intentional about holding space for the hope and the victory.
By Jonathan W. Hancock
In 2000, I sat down and calculated how much my wife, Beverly, and I had earned since our marriage in 1986. I found we were approaching a million dollars in earnings, with a shared average annual income of $63,000.
By Ken Pettigrew
When I look at the church today, what gives me hope is a renewed emphasis on the centrality of the Lord’s Table in worship. Our culture is fragmented by racial,
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