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By Melanie Springer Mock
Textbook orders for the spring semester were due in a few days, the 2024 presidential election still a month away. In January, I’d begin teaching International Women’s Literature for the first time in 20 years, and to freshen up my reading list, I added several books from “best of” lists—authors I’d not read before, but whose work seemed appropriate for the course’s objectives.
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.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
My neighborhood, just outside of Washington, DC, has a strong sense of local community. I know the people on our block, and I love bumping into folks—at PTA meetings, sports outings, or the grocery store.
By David de Leon
I am not a Bible scholar. In fact, the running joke for people in my field (systematic theology) is that we have absolutely no idea what to do with scripture. So when the opportunity to lead a Bible study at my church presented itself this past spring, I surprised myself and jumped at the opportunity.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Season 6, Episode 10
This week on 20 Minute Takes, Nikki talks with Jesse Rudy. Trained as an attorney, Jesse is the founder and CEO of Redeem International, a Christian faith-based nonprofit that protects some of the world’s most vulnerable widows and orphans from violent abuse and exploitation.
By CSA Team
What does it mean to have hope—real hope? Gospel hope? And what does hope look like when we are in the midst of questionable, unsettling, or unsure times?
Is hope naïve?
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
Season 6, Episode 9
This week, David de Leon interviews CSA Executive Director and 20 Minute Takes host Nikki Toyama-Szeto. Nikki shares what it looks like to lead a justice organization justly.