Library

Filter by Topic
198 Methods of Nonviolent Direct Action
Advent
Animal Welfare
Book Excerpt
Book Reviews
Church
Compassion & Relief
CSA History
Current Events
Disability Advocacy
Economic Justice
Environmental Justice and Creation Care
Faith & Public Life
Film Reviews
Foreign Policy
Gender Justice
Heroes of the Faith
Holistic Ministry
Human Rights
Human Sexuality
Immigration and Seeking Refuge
Interview
Lent
LGBTQIA
Mass Incarceration
Nonviolence & Peacemaking
Oriented to Love
Podcasts
Politics and Public Policy
Prayer
Racial Justice
Reconciliation & Dialogue
Ron Sider
Simple Living
Social Justice
Spiritual Formation
Suffering
Filter by List
Black/African American Authors
Covid-19 Pandemic
Women Authors
Women of Color Authors

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

History Makers: Howard Thurman

Howard Thurman, born on November 18, 1899, in Daytona Beach, Florida, stands as a towering figure in American history, leaving an indelible mark as an author, philosopher, theologian, and civil rights leader.

The Lynching of the Son of Man: Q&A with Brian Zahnd

By Brian Zahnd
The cross is many things. One of the revelations of the cross is the divine repudiation of systems that seek to dominate a minority population through lethal force. When the powers that be justify their actions with empty euphemisms like “appropriate use of force,” the cross calls them to account.

Is Hope a Hustle?

By Irwyn Ince

Growing up in a city like New York, you get used to a hustle. You might even end up doing a little hustling yourself. The hustler offers someone something of value, or something another person may desire.

Join Baby Jesus on the Margins

By J. Mark Bowers
When the newborn King arrived on the margins, economically and physically on the wrong side of power, His agenda was larger than just rescuing me or you. He had the entire cosmos in mind. While Jesus came to save us from our personal sins, His work on the cross put all things right again, including the systems of the world (Colossians 1:19-20).

Advent

By Michael Stalcup
We were almost used
to living in the dark,
to being powerless,

that day you quietly
pulled the lid off the sky
of a world below

Advent Challenge: Stage a Revolution at Christmas Dinner

By David Michaux
The Magnificat is not a prayer from the quiet and timid girl we see in Renaissance paintings. The Magnificat is a prayer for social and political upheaval. The Magnificat has revolutionary teeth. The Magnificat is about the powerful deeds of the Mighty God.

The Nonviolent Revolutionary

By John Dear
The gospels portray Jesus of Nazareth as the most active person of nonviolence in the history of the world. He taught a glorious vision of nonviolence: “Love your enemies. Blessed are the peacemakers. Put down your sword. Be as compassionate as God. Hunger and thirst for justice. Seek first God’s reign and God’s justice.” As his followers, we are forbidden to support war, killings, executions, nuclear weapons, corporate greed, environmental destruction, or violence of any kind. More, we are sent into the culture of violence and war on a mission of prophetic peacemaking and active nonviolent resistance to evil.

4 Ways to Reject Gender-Based Domination of Women

By Lisa Sharon Harper
Patriarchal interpretations of Scripture fail to start at the beginning. They started after the Fall, in genesis 3. As a result, they present observations of a fallen world as if the current state is in line with God’s good intentions. That is far from the truth. What God called very good was before the Fall!