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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 Sarah Withrow King
What do we learn about the place of animals in creation? What role are humans given in relation to animals in this passage?
By Cheryl Miller
What happens when restorative justice principles are applied to Christian communities?
“Compassionate confrontation” was the term Dave Clark used to describe the style I use with the women at Perpetual Help Home, where I serve as director.
By Ron Sider
A giant of the faith has left us. Billy Graham is now in the presence of our Lord.
The most important thing to say about Billy Graham is that he loved his Lord with all his heart and lived a life of faithfulness and integrity.
By Molly Lorden
During the season of Lent, Churches for Middle East Peace is focusing on Jerusalem as a city shared by three faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This week, we look closer at the deep meaning Jerusalem holds for the Jewish people.
By Melanie Springer Mock
Sophfronia Scott and her son, Tain Gregory, have a compelling story to tell. In December 2012, Tain was a third-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary, the school that became synonymous with the tragedy of school shootings when 20 first-grade children and six adult staff members were killed at Sandy Hook in a massacre that took only moments.
By Drick Boyd
I want to address what is one of the toughest challenges in talking with white folks about race: their tendency to turn any discussion or controversy about race into something else—a process I call White Deflection.
By Amy Simpson
I’m an unsatisfied Christian. You could also call me a disappointed Christian, a restless Christian, a Christian who sometimes feels suffocated by the weight of my own unmet hopes and expectations…
By Bonnie O’Neil
Ash Wednesday, the first day of the 40-day period called Lent that ends on Easter Sunday, marks the beginning of our journey of reflection to the cross. On this day, pilgrims take their first steps on the Via Dolorosa, as we accompany Christ on his way to Calvary.
CSA’s Nikki Toyama-Szeto joins twenty Christian leaders in a reading of Matthew 25, a powerful scripture that speaks to God’s concern for the most vulnerable. Watch the two-minute video below, as we dig deeper into God’s word to explore more of what it means for us as a church to share in God’s concern for refugees and immigrants.
By Nikki Toyama-Szeto
As news from North Korea increasingly fuels both our news feeds and our public imagination, I often find myself wondering: are the stories true? Is life in North Korea really like stepping into a time capsule?
By Drick Boyd
In The Things White Folks Say, Part 1, I began to discuss some of the common statements white folks make when the topics of race and racism come up in conversation. I said that these statements are most often made in an attempt to either explain or defend a person’s current attitudes and/or inaction on issues and concerns related to race.
By Anna Redsand
Silentium—Latin, meaning variously silence, being still, keeping silence, noiselessness, stillness, quiet, repose, obscurity. Canadian poet and writer of non-fiction, Connie Braun, meditates on all of these meanings in this rich exploration of her Mennonite family history in Poland, Ukraine, Germany, and Canada.
By Lisa Sharon Harper and Nikki Toyama-Szeto
CSA is delighted to announce the launch of Lisa Sharon Harper’s new podcast on Freedom Road! On the inaugural episode, CSA Executive Director Nikki Toyama-Szeto joins Lisa and other faith leaders to talk about #MeToo.
By Christiana Peterson
Our families were decidedly weirded out by our strange choice to move to an intentional community. It’s not that they were surprised or even unsupportive. After all, they were used to both of our somewhat spontaneous adventures as single people.
By Matthew Hunsberger
As a former “Side B” gay Christian, I completely understand the arguments for traditional Christian views on LGBTQ-related beliefs,
By Drick Boyd
In the course of talking with white folks about race issues, there are some common statements white folks often make that are designed to either explain or defend their current attitudes and/or inaction on issues and concerns related to race.
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