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By Laurie Nichols
Lent has been around for centuries, dating back to the Early Church. It’s a 40-day season of reflection, repentance, and renewal, modeled after Jesus’ time fasting in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11). At its core, Lent is about making space—letting go of distractions so we can refocus on what really matters: God’s love, justice, and the hope of resurrection.
By Drick Boyd
In this final installment on talking with white folks about race, I urge whites of conscience who seek to be allies in the struggle for racial justice to persist relentlessly to resist efforts to ignore or shut down conversations and other endeavors to address racism.
By Carolyn Custis James
We are living in a time of breathtaking reversals. When it comes to power and privilege and voice, the laws of social and cultural gravity are being defied.
By Kathy Khang
My first Bible lessons were taught in 2-D—flannel storyboards with cartoonish paper-cutout versions of Queen Esther and Baby Jesus. Everyone in the Bible was white, a generic Eastern European shade of nude, and everyone moved across the same flat plane of the flannel board.
By Sarah Withrow King
CSA’s Sarah Withrow King is running a series of devotionals during Lent, reflecting on what we believe about God’s creatures and how we might move toward living out those beliefs as members of the body of Christ.
By Sarah Withrow King
Full disclosure: until a few weeks ago, I was pretty ignorant about basically everything having to do with North Korea.
By Drick Boyd
When the topic of race comes up in conversation, white folks often express feelings of both guilt and powerlessness. Why?
Overwhelmed by guilt
Dr. Beverly Tatum, formerly a Professor of Psychology at Mt.
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?
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