Latest from ESAWomen Behind the Wall: Helping Each Other HealDecember 12, 2019Podcast Episode #7: Helping Each Other Heal The Women Behind the Wall podcast highlights female voices from the Holy Land, and is hosted and produced solely by women who live and work in Jerusalem. The podcast seeks to amplify minority voices and perspectives, especially women's experiences in the private sphere…...Read more...The False God of Conservative ChristianityDecember 11, 2019By Stephen Mattson There's a religion whose savior was a refugee, yet it rejects refugees. Whose God embraces sojourners, yet it deports immigrants. Whose parishioners worship someone called the Prince of Peace, yet they defend violence and are pro-war. Whose hero was an ethnic minority, yet they're complicit in white…...Read more...It Might Surprise You, But Young Evangelicals Like Me Are Writing a New StoryDecember 10, 2019By Kevin Singer How generosity, hospitality, and presence can change the narrative on interfaith work It was my sophomore year of college, and I was booking bands at a little coffeehouse called Java 101. One day, I received a call from a local Southern Baptist pastor, who asked if his…...Read more...Waiting, For NowDecember 9, 2019By Alfred Delp Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny. To eyes that do not see, it still seems as though the final dice are being…...Read more...Gun Violence: America's Greatest Spiritual and Moral CrisisDecember 5, 2019By James E. Atwood My life as a young pastor, and the trajectory of my ministry, changed almost in the twinkling of an eye one afternoon in 1975. My secretary informed me I had a telephone call from the intensive care unit of a local hospital. One of my parishioners,…...Read more...Shaking a Fist(ful of Joy) in the Face of DespairDecember 4, 2019By Kristyn Komarnicki This is the world I'm handing off to my young adult sons and future grandchildren? A nation where the merits of removing protections from select groups of humans is an actual subject of debate among its citizens? Where the body politic is crippled by an autoimmune disease…...Read more...A Letter to Boy, Age SevenDecember 3, 2019By Elrena Evans Merry Christmas! I picked your card off the Christmas tree in my church because I have three boys of my own—two older than you and one younger—and I thought they might be able to help me pick out a present for you. (I also have two daughters,…...Read more...The Eve of AdventDecember 2, 2019By Eberhard Arnold In the past God spoke…through the prophets at many times and in various ways. ~ Hebrews 1:1 Advent is a time in which we share in the longing of all those who lived in the distant past. We must feel how, in their suffering and struggle, they…...Read more...Difficult Discussions at Dinner?November 28, 2019Are you nervous about navigating potentially tricky conversations with loved ones today? ESA's dialogue expert, Kristyn Komarnicki, shares some strategies for dialogue across difference. (Click here for an edited transcript of this conversation.) JOIN US! We're talking with our dialogue expert Kristyn Komarnicki about navigating sensitive conversations with loved…...Read more...
