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By James Bratt
I was recently asked to speak at a teach-in addressing the latest spate of racially charged killings involving police—killings by police and killings of police. Those events involve ultimate stakes: human life.
By Brian Zahnd
“It is the prerogative and charm of beauty to win hearts.”
–Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
It’s an ugly time right now. Especially in the public discourse in the land in which I live.
By Cindy Brandt
Growing up conservative Christian there were a lot of protocols. Christian culture can be very formulaic. There were the prayers you had to pray a certain way, the testimonies of prescribed narratives that you told, and cookie cutter advice you gave to people in crisis.
By Jim Baton
Since President Trump issued the temporary travel ban against citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations, there has been no end of controversy. Some foreign leaders have criticized it; others have supported it.
By R. Anderson Campbell and Steve Sherwood
It’s easy to look at the campaign rhetoric during the previous 18 months and conclude that the next four years are going to be profoundly difficult for the vulnerable in our society.
By David Williams
On a recent Saturday afternoon I was at my friend John’s home where I sat across the table from his son, Frances, who has just turned five. Between us lay a chess board, all the pieces standing in their rightful places.
By Tom Sine
The world many of us grew up in is not the same world as today. Parents, youth workers, and educators are unconsciously equipping the next generation for life in a world that no longer exists.
By Merrick Korach
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on August 18, 2016 that it will no longer outsource federal prisons to private prison companies, because many of these privately operated prisons have failed to provide adequate mental health and medical attention to their detainees.
By Sarah Withrow King
January 17, 2017 marked the 40th anniversary of the first execution since the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed the use of the death penalty in Gregg v. Georgia. In that forty years, 1,443 individuals have been put to death in the U.S.
From CSA
CSA is hosting a 1.5-day practical and inspirational workshop on faith-rooted organizing by award-winning world-changer Alexia Salvatierra—and you won’t want to miss it! Faith-rooted organizing brings God’s people together to create systemic change in our communities, contributing all of the gifts—from our deepest wells to broader movements for justice.
By Katie Tan
Last month, I wrote about how I was overcome with despair at the evil in the world. Today, I am overcome by the evil within us—in America, in the actions of the new administration, in We the People.
By Tyler Watson
I used to have an instrumental view of prayer.
By Sue Gilmore
It is January 21st, 2017, the day after the election of Donald J. Trump as our 45th president; it is the day of the Women’s March on Washington. I wanted to go, and was all set to get up before dawn to make my way to the capital, when I heard there would also be a March in Philadelphia.
By Sarah Withrow King
Full disclosure: I’m starting to write this article with Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna’ Take It” blaring through my earbuds. “We’ll fight the powers that be” indeed.
I did not watch the inauguration of the 45th POTUS.
By Micky ScottBey Jones
I want to invite you to dinner.
Yes. You.
All of you.
Not at my house…well, not all at the same time, at least. I am inviting you to dinner at your house, in your neighborhood, or somewhere in your city during the first 100 days of the Trump administration.
By Elrena Evans
O Lord our Governor, whose glory is in all the world: We commend this nation to your merciful care.
God, we come to you today and plead your mercy. We lament the arrogance that keeps us blind to injustice and allows hatred to flourish unchecked.
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