With less than two weeks before the U.S. Presidential Election, Christians for Social Action is eager to share a variety of resources to help you engage in our political process.
We want to live into the gospel’s promise of reconciliation, wholeness, and restoration—not just this year, but as an ongoing commitment. To help foster that commitment, these resources go beyond just this election season. They can help us advocate for others in the public square and develop a healthy relationship between our faith and politics over the long term.
We invite you to: Read. Listen. Share. Pray.
These resources are produced by CSA, our partners, and organizations with whom we collaborate. Click through each image or link below to view the resource. And please vote!
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AAPI Get Out the Vote Toolkit
Asian American Christians are arguably the swing vote in this year’s presidential election. This toolkit, produced by CAAPIC (Coalition for Asian American and Pacific Islander Churches), is for Asian American Christians who want to get out the vote in their communities this year.
Download the guide.
Why Democracy Matters: AAPI Video Series
Why should Asian American Christians vote? What compels the next generation of AAPI Christian voters? Watch and share these three conversations, formatted for social media platforms. Videos were funded by a grant from APARRI (Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative) and CAAPIC donors.
Find the videos on CAAPIC’s page on the CSA website.
Better Citizens, Better World Videos
CSA and the Center for Christian Civics joined with a number of partner organizations to co-host a 4-day virtual conference on faith and politics. The recordings are now available for viewing. Sessions include: Active Citizenship, Protest and Lament, Existential Crisis in the Middle East, Political Tension in the Church, Practical Advocacy, and more!
Christian Civics Foundations
Created by the Center for Christian Civics, Foundations is an easy-to-implement, video-based course covering the ten most important topics in civic discipleship. The course content is optimized for individuals and groups who want to resolve political tension, become more hospitable to their neighbors, and make their faith more credible to anyone who is overwhelmed by a rapidly polarizing world.
Free through 2024! Learn more here.
Common Hymnal’s Get Out the Vote Videos
Common Hymnal is a virtual hymnbook stocked with forward-facing content from the spiritual underground, channeling an eclectic art movement in which praise and protest live side by side.
Watch and share their two videos—”Walk With Me (Otis’ Dream)” and “Rocks”—that express their hopes for this election season, including that the videos will “…inspire Black Christians to get out and vote for many election seasons to come.”
Promising Revelations: Undoing the False Impressions of America’s Faithful
Is America still religious? How deeply are our faith communities driven by politics?
The answers may surprise you. They may even challenge and inspire you to rethink faith in America — and the role that faith communities can play in bringing us together as a country.
Read this recently-released study from More In Common, which finds significant perception gaps—disparities between what Americans imagine people of faith to believe and what they actually believe.
Alyssa Sickle is the Operations Manager for Christians for Social Action. She joined the CSA staff after more than 10 years of working with faith-based volunteer and mission programs, focusing on fundraising, event planning, and membership support. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and supported collegiate missions work in France with Greater Europe Mission. She lives in Maryland with her husband and three young children.
