A Prayer for an End to Violence at the Hands of the State

Hope in the Wilderness: Learning to Trust the God of Hope

By Amy Knorr

I can still feel my eyebrows arch when I think about the words my mother spoke to me during a rough patch as a (very) young adult.

“Amy, I don’t want you to suffer, but that is actually not my prayer for you.”

I’m pretty sure my response was something like, “Thanks a lot, Mom.” (Insert all the sarcasm of a late teenager.)
But she followed that declaration with words that have anchored me in every hard season since:

“I know you will walk through hard things.

I Think I’m Having a Resurrection Problem (Holy Week Series)

By Laurie Nichols

(Editor’s note: As we enter Holy Week, we’re holding space for the parts of the story that feel unresolved — the places where loss lingers and hope is hard to see. These reflections by our CSA staff invite us to pay attention to what God may be doing in the middle of it, not just after it.)

“Though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again.” (Prov.

A Prayer for an End to Violence at the Hands of the State

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