“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” - John 1:15

🕯️ Help Us Finish 2025 Strong!

Gospel hope is a flame tended by many hands. 

As we close 2025 and enter Advent, CSA is lifting up the stories, leaders, and communities who keep that flame alive — especially in a world marked by fear, division, and uncertainty. Your generosity helps Christians practice a public faith shaped by mercy, justice, courage, and wonder.

And thanks to a $25,000 matching challenge, every gift given by December 31 will be doubled — expanding the reach of gospel hope in 2026.

What Your Support Made Possible This Year

• CSA played a key role in launching the Credible Witness podcast with the ReThinking Church Initiative — reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners exploring the credibility of Christian faith in public life.
   
• The Storytellers Collective launched its first cohort of writers, artists, and organizations creating stories of gospel hope. This includes God’s Secrets, a traveling chair installation narrated by Dr. Jemar Tisby that invites people to sit, listen, and remember hidden stories of faith and justice.
   
• The Racial Justice Institute helped churches and neighborhoods — especially immigrant and BIPOC communities — learn practices of nonviolent disruption. Most recently, Director Andre Henry trained more than 50 leaders in a workshop called Confronting Injustice.
   
• Oriented to Love hosted dialogue retreats where Christians learned to practice deep listening and embrace one another across difference. As OTL Director Kristyn Komarnicki says, “Loving dialogue is gospel hope in action.”
   
• More than 125,000 people visited CSA’s website — a 21% increase since January 1 — seeking thoughtful, trustworthy guidance for living their faith in public.

Every story, every training, and every act of courage is a candle lit in the darkness. Together, we carry the light of gospel hope!

OTHER WAYS TO DONATE:

• Through your Donor Advised Fund