Editor’s Note: This week, the faith-based think tank formerly named Evangelicals for Social Action announced that it would “trade in the evangelical label and become Christians for Social Action instead.” CSA founder and president emeritus Ron Sider said of the change, “[ESA] was the right name—for a time. But the social environment is so different.”Fuller Seminary president Mark Labberton agreed, saying, “This…makes a world of sense…Nikki Toyama-Szeto, the executive director, has led her team with wisdom, humility, and honor through a thicket of words and associations to the better light of a new name.”We asked Toyama-Szeto, one of Missio Alliance’s Leading Voices, to share more about the backstory behind the change and how her identity as an …
How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
How long must I take counsel in my soul
and have sorrow in my heart all the day?
How long shall my…
In 1944, a young, German pastor writing from prison and nearing the end of his life asked a simple question that countless people have returned to time and time again. In his correspondence with his friends, he had been wrestling…
May I offer a pastoral word?
This has been a terribly stressful year for all of us. A global pandemic by itself would have been plenty to deal with. Almost overnight, schools closed down, workers everywhere were furloughed, economies began…
Once again, video-recorded violence against Black bodies has thrust widespread racial injustice into the public eye.
As a critical mass of people of various ethnicities continue to flood the streets in protest of racial injustice, many in the American evangelical…
