Storytelling Can Activate Justice in Troubling Times
Storytelling Can Activate Justice in Troubling Times
By Melanie Springer Mock
Textbook orders for the spring semester were due in a few days, the 2024 presidential election still a month away.
Rest as Resistance: How Stillness Can Defy Fear and Darkness
By Amy Knorr
On that first solo-driving day, as my daughter backed out of the garage and onto the road with a smile and a little wave, I swear I saw the gossamer shape of a 5-year-old, hands clenched on the handlebars of a tiny bike, pedaling shakily down the street with that familiar left-right wobble of a new rider.
Storytelling Can Activate Justice in Troubling Times
By Melanie Springer Mock
Textbook orders for the spring semester were due in a few days, the 2024 presidential election still a month away. In January, I’d begin teaching International Women’s Literature for the first time in 20 years, and to freshen up my reading list, I added several books from “best of” lists—authors I’d not read before, but whose work seemed appropriate for the course’s objectives.
Hunger, Justice, and the Gospel: Eugene Cho on Why Advocacy Matters
By CSA Staff
What does it look like when faith goes beyond the pulpit?
In this episode of 20 Minute Takes, CSA Executive Director Nikki Toyama-Szeto sits down with Eugene Cho, president of Bread for the World and longtime pastor, to talk about the intersection of faith, justice, and hunger.
Navigating Racial Injustice: Lessons from Canada’s Colonial Legacy and the Church’s Response
By Mark Glanville
Introduction: Learning from Canada’s Journey
As we seek a path through racial injustice toward a more joyful future, it can be helpful to consider how societies outside the United States walk this path.
First Time at a Protest? 5 Things I Worried About (So You Don’t Have To)
By Brenna Rubio
It’s a weird, humbling thing to lead a group someplace you’ve never been before! I showed up, a protest newbie who loves Jesus and justice, at one of the February 17, 2025, rallies that were held all over the country to protest the new administration’s policies, and I’m so glad I did.
Christianity, White Nationalism, and the Cost of Complicity
By David de Leon
The first 100 days of the current presidential administration have brought a relentless stream of headlines: executive branch overreach, unelected billionaires wielding powers in shaping government with no accountability, a brutal crackdown on undocumented immigrants without due process, new attacks on higher education and student protestors, and the effects of avian flu continuing to increase egg prices, despite the President’s claim that he’s lowered the prices.
How First Nations Theology Heals My Understanding of the Resurrection
By Mark Glanville
Encountering painful truths
A group from our church visited the abandoned building of a former First Nations residential school. St. Mary’s, as it was called, operated in Mission, British Columbia. We sat in a listening circle to receive the memories, pain, and reflections of two elderly women—one who grew up at that school and another who attended a different residential school nearby.
The Church as Sanctuary: Enfolding Immigrants as Kindred
By Mark Glanville
Sanctuary as kinship: A biblical reflection
The story of undocumented immigrants and refugees in the U.S. includes the rich tradition of churches and other groups offering sanctuary—a practice of providing protection from arrest and deportation for vulnerable immigrants, and often, cocreating a community of belonging.
The Church as Sanctuary: What Does It Mean to Be a Refuge for Immigrants?
By Daniel Montañez
The term “sanctuary” often refers to a sacred place of worship—a temple, church, or synagogue — where heaven and earth meet, and the sacred and profane converse. Even those who don’t regularly attend church may visit a sanctuary in times of deep crisis — after losing a loved one, facing personal struggles, or searching for answers.