Latest from ESACOVID-19: Christians Need to Stop Spewing False Hope and Political PropagandaMarch 30, 2020By Stephen Mattson Our faith shouldn't be co-opted by partisan politics. Our hope shouldn't replace wisdom and prudence. The United States of America is a country created through genocide and built by slaves. Sacrificing American lives for financial gain has been military policy for the last seven decades. Our prisons…...Read more...Ron Sider: Finding Strength in a Time of PandemicMarch 24, 2020By Ron Sider The coronavirus makes this a scary, dangerous time. None of us knows what our situation will be in two or six weeks. That is frightening. Of course we know we need to avoid the panicmongers and listen to our best health professionals. If we obey the advice…...Read more...Consuming Christianly?March 11, 2020Editor's Note: In light of the global health crisis of COVID-19 and the resulting scarcity of items like hand sanitizer and face masks, ESA is reprinting Al Hsu's thoughts on consumption from a Christian perspective. We hope these thoughts help influence your relationship with your purchases, both during times of…...Read more...More Ancient Truths: A Review of "Becoming Coztōtōtl"March 4, 2020By Aline Mello My first encounter with Tejana writer Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros was through her Twitter account, where she asks thoughtful questions and offers kindness in her comments to poets, Christian writers, and anyone else who engages with her. Since our initial connection online, we've met at conferences and readings, and…...Read more...The Benefits of DustFebruary 28, 2020By Deborah Watson Dust gets a bad rap. We chase it out of our homes, or we think we should. So why a meditation on the benefits of dust? Even in the Bible, of the 100 references to "dust," almost all of them are negative. But not all. The very…...Read more...Can I Be Black and Christian?February 24, 2020By Micky ScottBey Jones After the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, I was forever changed. Nothing could remain the same—not my mothering, not my relationships, not my faith. I needed more than The Power of a Praying Wife. I needed a Christian faith that could actually handle my distress…...Read more...How Can We Achieve Peace?February 21, 2020Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. ~ Dorothy ThompsonRead more...Church on the Margins With My LGBTQ+ FriendsFebruary 19, 2020By Katie Hays For almost two decades I served small, traditional congregations where heteronormativity was the unspoken rule. In those churches we were attentive to our ethic of hospitality: How can we be more welcoming to them, the people who are our guests? We ran "hospitality audits" that resulted in…...Read more...A Prayer for When People TerrorizeFebruary 17, 2020A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically.Read more...
