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By Kristyn Komarnicki
Love in the midst of discomfort
Love your God, love your neighbor as yourself. All the law and the prophets rest on these two commands…
Leap of Faith is a full-length documentary from Nicholas Ma and Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?) featuring pastors who commit to meeting for a year to look for a path to unity in the midst of polarized times.
By Tim Mascara
On December 4, 1959, Soviet artist Evgeny Vuchetich presented a bronze statue to the United Nations, titledLet Us Beat Our Swords into Plowshares. The sculpture is an image of a man beating a sword into a plowshare, meant to symbolize humankind’s desire to end war—the desire to take the tools of violence and war and turn them into tools for peace, tools to benefit humankind rather than harm it.
By Ethan Tan
The white Christmas Bing Crosby dreams of was never mine. I grew up in Malaysia, a Christian, a Chinese. In a Muslim-Malay majority country, I was a minority among minorities.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
My sister is always the best gift-giver in our family. Mention some random interest, and she’ll remember, find it, and wrap it up for you to open on Christmas morning.
By John M. Perkins
Our country claims to “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Chief among these rights is life, but these days we are asking a lot of questions about life: What are lives really worth?
By Al Tizon
How can a baby born during oppressed times in impoverished conditions save the world?It can’t, unless that baby is Emmanuel, God With Us! The anticipation of the birth of Emmanuel is the season that Christians call Advent, which officially began on Sunday.I’ve come to rely on Christine Sine’s fresh take on Advent every year, and really through the whole Christian calendar.
By Kevin Singer and Chris Stackaruk
We all engage with people of other faiths and worldviews—the real question is whether we’re doing a good or bad job being a witness to Christ. Engaging badly and leaving a bad taste in someone’s mouth about Christ is not what Jesus calls us to.
By Stephen Mattson
To reject the truth that God loves and cares for immigrants and refugees is to deny God’s holy character. But affirming this truth requires many American Christians to renounce their political loyalties.
By Faith in Leadership
The Rev. Dr. Neichelle Guidry takes seriously her job as counselor, coach, motivator and model for young black women in in ministry and faith.
Guidry, who has been recognized as a national faith leader by publications like Time and Ebony, is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University and Yale Divinity School, and has a Ph.D.
CSA is thankful for your support as we work to make God’s love visible!
By Elrena Evans
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Reviewed by Aimee Fritz
Hales tackles the driving forces behind the suburban American Dream: consumerism, individualism, busyness, and safety. I recognized myself in her honest admission of
By J. Nicole Morgan
Food justice is a topic inextricably linked to the theme of Rachel Marie Stone’s new book, Eat With Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food, which explores the journey towards “eating like a Christian.”
By Reesheda Washington
There is such a stark contrast between the two regions that one might easily, though erroneously, be lured into the deceptive ease of seeing only two worlds: that of Israel and Israelis, and that of Palestine and Palestinians.
By Elisabeth T. Vasko
In recent years, I have taught an upper-level Christology course in which we examine race, gender, and power. Sometimes my students register their dissatisfaction with reading Christology from the margins (James Cone, Kelly Brown Douglas, and Marcella Althaus-Reid) instead of the center (Anselm, Barth, von Balthasar, and Rahner).
By Tammy Perlmutter
Artist Steve Prince is a tower of affability. At 6′ 6″ he stands about half a foot taller than most people in the room, but despite his height, he is earthy and grounded.
By Rebecca Phillips
Come late summer, the rolling Palouse wheat fields stretch like a golden carpet south to the breaks of the Snake River Canyon. Far below, the river winds through rocky channels on its way to the Columbia River and eventually the Pacific Ocean.
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