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By Mark Glanville
Encountering painful truths
A group from our church visited the abandoned building of a former First Nations residential school. St. Mary’s, as it was called, operated in Mission, British Columbia. We sat in a listening circle to receive the memories, pain, and reflections of two elderly women—one who grew up at that school and another who attended a different residential school nearby.
By Amar D. Peterman
I am a part of the generation of young millennials and Gen-Z that have “lost their faith.”
I was raised in the evangelical tradition. I grew up reading I Kissed Dating Goodbye and Blue Like Jazz.
By Tony Deik
Season 6, Episode 14
In this final episode of season six, Nikki talks with Tony Deik. Tony is a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem, Palestine. He is on faculty at Bethlehem Bible College and currently resides in Bolivia with his family.
By CSA Staff
During the Advent season, Christians around the world practice time travel. We deepen our faith by spending 24 days re-connecting with the circumstances surrounding Jesus’ birth and by remembering why his coming was worth anticipating in the first place.
By Edith Yoder
Season 6, Episode 13
How can churches be good neighbors to families experiencing housing insecurity? This week on 20 Minute Takes, Nikki talks with Edith Yoder, the CEO of Bridge of Hope, an organization that has equipped Christian faith communities to end and prevent homelessness since 1987.
By CSA Staff
To celebrate Thanksgiving this week, we asked leaders around the country to share why they are grateful for CSA and our work. We got back five inspiring videos highlighting a range of programs.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
“I first encountered Tony, as many others did, as he preached from a big stage in front of a lot of people…”
By Allison
Every year on November 20th, family members, allies and souls who identify as LGBTQ—particularly transgender or gender nonconforming individuals—come together to honor those who have been killed in the last year simply for existing.
By Rick Barry
Many evangelical Christians confuse lamentation for despair. This confusion can cut us off from one of the most powerful tools in our spiritual arsenal.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Our Executive Director offers words of support, confession and encouragement ahead of the 2024 elections.
By Stephen Mattson
This article was originally published by Red Letter Christians and originally run on the CSA website in March of 2021.
Christian Nationalism is a form of self-righteousness. It’s a spirituality that blends Colonialism and Manifest Destiny.
By Janna Louie
Season 6, Episode 12
This week on 20 Minute Takes, Nikki talks with Rev. Janna Louie, co-founder of the Coalition for Asian American and Pacific Islander Churches (CAAPIC). In this episode, they discuss the complex historical dynamics that affect Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) voters, and the work that CAAPIC does to encourage AAPI Christians to show up as engaged citizens who participate robustly in the democratic process here in the United States.
By Alyssa Sickle
A collection of resources to help you navigate this election season—and beyond!
By CSA Staff
Five and a half hours of wildly compelling videos empowering you to take small steps toward a better future.
By Bill White
Season 6, Episode 7
This week, Nikki talks with Bill White, co-pastor of City Church Long Beach. Bill shares the story of his son coming out and how that experience challenged his theology and ultimately deepened his faith in Jesus.
By Rick Barry
Presidential campaigns have a long, storied history of character attacks. Candidates have been called bastards, drunkards and moral lepers. But there’s one incredibly specific allegation that gets levied against presidential candidates more and more often in the social media era: “antichrist.”
When people on my Facebook feed started panicking about whether President Obama was the Antichrist (a panic common enough that it made it into The Onion), it was still novel to me.
By Christina Stanton
In just seven years, Yvonne Dodd Sawyer founded two organizations that pursued similar missions in very different ways. In this interview, she shares how this happened and how the cities she was in changed the way the organizations pursued their work.
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