Latest from ESAListen FirstSeptember 18, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the sixth and final installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. If you've been moved or challenged by…...Read more...What Does Christianity Have to Do With Animals?September 17, 2019From Genesis to Revelation, and from the early church to the present day, there are vivid examples of God's—and the church's—love of, care for, and delight in animal creatures. By Sarah Withrow King From Genesis to Revelation, and from the early church to the present day, there are vivid examples…...Read more...Christian Complicity With RacismSeptember 16, 2019Be sure to catch the recording of ESA's Facebook Live with Jemar Tisby at the end of this piece! By Jemar Tisby While many Christian traditions and other religions have varied and valuable narratives, Protestants, especially evangelicals, have written some of the most well-known narratives of racism in the United…...Read more...Still HidingSeptember 12, 2019By Christie Purifoy When President Trump announced the end of DACA, another battleground in his ongoing fight against immigrants and immigration, I observed my blonde, blue-eyed, non-Spanish-speaking child with alarm. His biological link to Mexico is well hidden, but will actions such as Trump's make it easy for him to learn…...Read more...A Seat at the TableSeptember 11, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the fifth installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, try to reach out to someone who disagrees…...Read more...Stranded by the Hunger DisasterSeptember 10, 2019The calling of the faithful is clear: feed the hungry and you will live. By Jeremy K. Everett For the past twenty years, I have traveled the United States and other parts of the world observing, researching, and addressing hunger and poverty. Much of what I have learned about addressing…...Read more...Against the Bad Place: A Review of David Bentley Hart's "That All Shall Be Saved"September 9, 2019What we believe about life after death shapes our actions, priorities, and choices in the here and now. By Jon Carlson "You're OK, Eleanor. You're in the Good Place," the celestial being Michael (Ted Danson) gently intones to Eleanor (Kristen Bell) in the opening scene of NBC's sitcom The Good…...Read more...Skipping the News?September 4, 2019By Jon Carlson This is the fourth installment in our six-week visual series on exploring what God's love looks like when we live it out in our world. If you're just joining us, you can begin with the first installment here. Today, try to avoid devoting attention to the news…...Read more...The Greatest EvilAugust 29, 2019The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted,…...Read more...
