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By Sung Yeon Choimorrow
This is not a piece about Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and the water protectors. This is a reflection to expand upon the narrative of what happened during the clergy action visit to Standing Rock on November 3rd, 2016.
By Leslie Leyland Fields
We have a new president. We have much work ahead of us as a nation, as a Church. We will not move forward without looking behind. May these words of confession bring healing to us all.
By Ron Sider
What does Christians for Social Action have to say about President-elect Trump?
First, we treasure American democracy and its precious history of peaceful transition of political power. And therefore we pledge to pray for President-elect Trump, and we will work with him whenever our principles align.
By Elrena Evans
The 2016 presidential election is over. Donald Trump is president-elect of the United States of America.
Regardless of how you voted, there’s little doubt that this election was unlike anything we’ve recently seen.
By Matthew Tyson
As a pro-life advocate, I honestly don’t care a bit about who is on the Supreme Court.
I want to repeat that for the sake of clarity.
When it comes to abortion, I do not care if the SCOTUS leans more to the left or to the right.
By Rita Chapman
Every summer vacation at Kikongo, packs of bored little boys run through the grasslands and forests, looking for ways to amuse themselves. Their days are filled setting traps for rats, birds, and squirrels, or chopping down saplings for small construction projects.
By David Albert Farmer
Every preacher must ask herself or himself with some frequency (weekly?), “What is my primary allegiance?” If one’s greatest allegiance is job security, well, honesty is good for the soul if not for sound sleep.
By Jon Carlson
“Fear is the beginning of despair even as hope is the beginning of daring.”
– Thomas Aquinas
How often have you felt despair this election season? A little pessimism here, some cynicism there… taken together, it adds up to despair, causing us to wonder how (or even whether) things could ever get better.
By Anna Baker
I consider myself to be a patriot. I am thankful for the rights that American citizenship brings to my everyday life, and I am thankful for those who have fought for me to be able to have those rights.
By Allison Duncan
Even if you think you’ve decided which candidate you’re voting for, you may still be researching other candidates who will be on the ballot. So as you wade through the various campaign promises and attack ads, watch out for logical fallacies often employed to persuade you.
By Jon Carlson
“Fixating on differences leads us to ignore glaring commonalities.”
– Christena Cleveland
Do you picture Jesus as liberal or conservative? Put another way, do you assume that Jesus more or less agrees with your political views?
By Kathy Khang
If you want to read a book that will make you want to move into an under-resourced urban community to change the lives of said community’s residents and feel like a hero, find another book.
By Elrena Evans
The presidential election is one week away. Organizations like Rock the Vote, Project Vote and Voto Latino are working hard to increase voter registration and, ultimately, turnout. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are courting the minority vote.
By Jim Baton
“Nobody knows my name.”
I remember my wife complaining about this to me after we’d already lived several years in Indonesia. Even friends and neighbors called her “Jim’s Wife,” “Evan’s Mom,” or “Alisha’s Mom.” I knew how she felt–many of the neighborhood kids called me “Uncle White Man.” My wife wondered wistfully, “Why is it they can’t just see me for me?”
She wasn’t alone.
By Mark Glanville
Many Christians feel lost at sea this election. For some, the traditional loyalties that previously anchored them have been severed. Many feel thrown off-course, with no obvious way forward.
Perhaps this disorientation is prompting Christians to inquire anew into how the Bible engages American society.
By Elrena Evans
The week school began this year, I was chatting with one of the therapists at my son’s elementary school. She asked who his teacher was for second grade, and when I told her, she smiled.
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