Becoming Reparative Communities
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is the final piece of our 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. In this final piece, Dr.
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By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is the final piece of our 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. In this final piece, Dr.
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is the final piece of our 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here. In this final piece, Dr.
By CSA Staff
A new resource from CSA’s Racial Justice Institute and authors Andre Henry and Lauren Grubaugh Thomas
What does love look like in the face of injustice?
For many Christians, that question feels urgent and unresolved.
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on economic injustice. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In this post, Dr. Terence Lester shows how compassion can grow into systemic change.)
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In 2016, with the support of my family and board of directors, I launched a campaign called MAP16 (March Against Poverty) to walk from Atlanta, GA, to the White House to raise awareness about homelessness in the U.S.
By Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon
(Editor’s note: We’re honored to welcome Rev. Dr. Mae Elise Cannon as a regular contributor to Christians for Social Action moving forward. Dr. Cannon is an author, scholar, and activist who has spent decades working at the intersection of faith, justice, and peacemaking in the Middle East.
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on economic injustice. In his first post, Terence Lester exposes the spiritual and systemic crisis of “educational redlining” and calls the church to defend the futures of marginalized students.
Interviewed By CSA Staff
Grief is universal — but it is not experienced in the same way by everyone. In the United States, trauma, loss, and grief are embedded in the lived experience of Black women, shaped by history, systemic inequities, and daily realities that too often go unseen in wider church communities.
By Terence Lester, PhD
(Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on economic injustice. In this first post, Terence Lester exposes the spiritual and systemic crisis of “educational redlining” and calls the church to defend the futures of marginalized students.
By Laurie Nichols
Each year, I circle back to the same question, one that never feels finished: Where are we now in the long, unfinished struggle for justice? It isn’t the kind of question you can tick off with easy answers.
By David Swanson
To the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who’ve entered my wonderful city of Chicago, who share my Christian faith: I plead with you to lay down your tasers and flash-bang grenades, take off your masks, remove the badges representing the federal government, and return to your homes, families, and churches.
By Ben Norquist
Five-year-old Hind Rajab was killed by Israeli soldiers as she sat in the back of her family’s car in Gaza. Her relatives were trying to evacuate. The world listened in horror to the recordings of Hind’s final pleas for help as she watched each of her family members die before soldiers took her life, too.
By Melanie Mock
In September 2008, a group of students hung a cardboard effigy of Barack Obama from an oak tree at the university where I teach. An accompanying sign, meant to critique Obama, suggested that the soon-to-be president, a Harvard-educated lawyer, wouldn’t qualify for a selective diversity scholarship at my institution.
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Over the past few months, many relatively-privileged people in the U.S. have experienced the terror and overwhelm of empire’s destructive violence in a highly personal way for the first time.
But others have been processing the horrors of living under the thumb of empire for a long time already.
Interview By CSA Staff
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant possibility—it’s here, transforming our daily lives in ways both subtle and sweeping. From predictive algorithms to real-time translation, AI is shaping how we work, connect, and even imagine what it means to be human.
By Beth Malena
Do you ever have a book on your “to-read” pile that suddenly skips to the top of your list?
This year, I was struggling with what to preach to the queer-centric church I co-pastor in Vancouver, BC, as we collectively witnessed rising authoritarianism (not just south of us, but also in Canada), the world’s failure to stop a genocide, and the scapegoating of immigrants and trans people.
By AnaYelsi Velasco Sánchez
Tricia Hersey, founder of The Nap Ministry, reminds us: “Rest is a form of resistance, because it disrupts and pushes back against capitalism and white supremacy.” But that’s only true when rest is paired with resistance.
By Christine Sine
Why is it so difficult to put God’s priorities first? We talk about Sabbath but find it hard to practice. Could it be that we’ve misunderstood its purpose? The busyness and consumerism of our culture not only steal our time but also shape our focus.