CSA Pundits
Together, with one goal: To help Christians make sense of the world’s most pressing injustices with clarity, courage, and gospel hope.
The Church and the wider world are asking urgent questions — about war and peace, migration and belonging, racial inequity, ecological collapse, political chaos, and more. These aren’t abstract topics; they’re the real places where people are struggling to discern what faithful discipleship looks like. As part of CSA’s calling to stir the imagination for a fuller expression of Christian faithfulness and a more just society, our CSA Pundits help Christians make sense of the world’s most pressing injustices with clarity, courage, and gospel hope.
This circle of trusted writers — pastors, scholars, organizers, storytellers — responds to cultural moments with thoughtful, theologically rich articles and responses that name what’s at stake and point toward faithful action. Their work spans op-eds, long-form series, one-off reflections, and, from time to time, live events. Together, they help all of us speak into the world’s questions with depth, hope, and a wide-open invitation to imagine a more just and merciful future.

Ben Norquist, PhD
Director of Grants and Communications, Churches for Middle East Peace
Rev. Dominique DuBois Gilliard
Director of Racial Righteousness and Reconciliation, Evangelical Covenant Church
AnaYelsi Velasco Sánchez
Artist, Justice Consultant, Community Organizer
Brandi Miller
Director of Formation and Story, Quest Church
Daniel Yang
Senior Director of Global Mission and Church Movements, World Relief
David Swanson
Founding Pastor, New Community Covenant Church
Jane Hong
Associate Professor of History, Occidental College
Liz Cooledge Jenkins
Writer & Preacher
Melanie Springer Mock
Professor of English, George Fox University
Nia Campinha-Bacote
Theologian, Music Thanatologist, & Healing Practitioner
Nijay K. Gupta
Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament, Northern Seminary
Ruth Padilla DeBorst
Theologian of Integral Mission and Global Christianity
Dr. Terence Lester
Founder, Love Beyond Walls; Community Activist, & Author
Timothy Sean Baluyot Ignacio
NGO Worker & Artist in Metro Manila“The task is not to deny the world’s pain, but to imagine the world as though it were otherwise.”
— Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
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