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Doing Asian American Theology: Contextuality & Particularity

by CCDA Guest on April 28, 2023

by Dr. Daniel D. Lee "At an Asian American conference, after presenting a survey of current scholarship on Asian American theology, the speaker asked the attendees, mostly Asian American pastors, Is this helpful? Do we need this? While the speaker phrased the question as one of usefulness, [...]
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Filed Under: Book Reviews, CCDA Tagged With: AAPI, asian american, author meetup, book, context, theology

Join the Resistance: Step Into the Good Work of Kingdom Justice

by CCDA Guest on September 13, 2022

by Michelle Ferrigno Warren Injustice doesn’t just happen and it doesn’t repair itself. What are Christians supposed to do to ensure that things do not remain as they are? As practitioners in communities impacted by racial and economic oppression, these are questions that are continuously in [...]
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Filed Under: Book Reviews, CCDA Tagged With: Advocacy, author meetup, book, book club, excerpt, join the resistance

“We Cry Justice” Book Club

by Christina Foor on August 30, 2022

Dr. Mary Nelson & Yvonne Rogers share their key takeaways from the CCDA Book Club on "We Cry Justice" this summer. Both share their convictions around activism as a product of faith and share their experience of going to the Poor Peoples' Campaign March in June. Plus - you'll want to hear the [...]
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Disability Justice

by CCDA Guest on May 24, 2022

"Disability Curatives" An excerpt by Dr. Amy Kenny "God told me to pray for you,” she says. Her words linger like cloying perfume in a claustrophobic space. “God wants to heal you!” She is undoubtedly thrilled with this opportunity. I’ve been here before. It never ends well. This woman does [...]
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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Membership Tagged With: accessibility, disability, disability justice, disabled

Reimagining Freedom & Privilege

by CCDA Guest on August 19, 2021

An Excerpt from Subversive Witnessby Dominique DuBois Gilliard One day while Moses was tending Jethro’s flock, he encountered the angel of the Lord in a burning bush. As Moses investigated why the blazing bush was not consumed, God called Moses by name from within the bush. Moses responded by [...]
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Church Forsaken: Practicing Presence in Neglected Neighborhoods

by CCDA Guest on October 24, 2018

Church Forsaken

God has taken me on an incredible journey. I was once a young man who was itching to get as far away as possible from my neighborhood.  Now, twenty years later, as an unplanned returning resident, I love Englewood passionately and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Church Forsaken shares this [...]
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Filed Under: Book Reviews, General Tagged With: Jeremiah 29, local church, neighbor, presence, returner

Witnessing the power of CCD principles

by Ava Steaffens on April 10, 2017

My first introduction to CCDA was reading the book, "Restoring At-Risk Communities" by John M. Perkins in 1999 and subsequently attending the New York CCDA Conference in 2000. The book in itself had already turned my world upside down. Then, being at the Conference and amongst so many beautiful [...]
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An Invitation Into a Life of Community, a Book Review

by Jessica Hoekstra on August 9, 2016

“Life in community is no less than a necessity for us––it is an inescapable ‘must’ that determines everything we do and think.” ––Eberhard Arnold “We live in a social order that has confused freedom with the isolation of the self. We may think we know one another, but our ‘knowing’ only [...]
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