May 2012 – Page 2 – Red Letter Christians

Oppressors, Activists, and Spiritual Stinginess: St. Paul’s Guide to Praying Better Prayers

May 21, 2012

“And I am praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience all the good things we have in Christ.” -Philemon 1:6 I was reading Philemon this we...

The Table is the Microcosm of a Practical Faith

Jeremy John

May 20, 2012

General

My generation is a practical generation, and I am challenged by my faith to be a practical person. Don’t get me wrong: I love all verbal and theological things: story, theology, politics, and history, pe...

Dear Class of 2012

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

May 19, 2012

General

The weather was kind this year as SUV’s with license plates from New York and Massachusetts started showing up around town, driving slowly with their turn signals on, trying desperately not to look lost. Th...

10 Skills Required for Intercultural Transformation

Marty Troyer

May 17, 2012

General

Last week I wrote about Undoing Houston’s Racism, including my own silence when violence was jokingly threatened against people of color. There I said that, “Racism, antipathy and alienation between diffe...

"So, you speak in tongues?" What one Comedian doesn't get about Pentecostalism

Jacqueline Grey

May 16, 2012

Theology

"So, you speak in tongues?" This was the first question John Safran, one of Australia's leading comedian-provocateurs, asked a young Christian peace-activist and preacher. Why? The conception of Pentecostal...

I’m Done Dating Jesus Online

Kurt Willems

May 15, 2012

General

© 2010 Sammis Reachers , Flickr | creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Maybe you’ve seen the commercials for the various online dating sites. The latest claim is that 1 in 5 relationships begin on an online...

Verse a day makes for a good year

Kay Campbell

May 14, 2012

General

Source: The Huntsville Times/Kay Campbell At about 1 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, 2012, sitting alone in the quiet and clean Taco Bell in the shadow of the new Sparkman Drive overpass, I had the immense...

Drive-Thru Prayers to Drive-In Church: Is Religion Lost?

Christian Piatt

May 13, 2012

General

Author and theologian Diana Butler Bass shared a video recently about where she saw for the future of the church. She shared an interesting story about a priest who went out onto a busy street corner on Ask W...

Let Them Eat Cake

Jimmy Spencer Jr.

May 12, 2012

Global

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That's what she said. It wasn't out of malice or even hard-heartedness that Marie Antoinette supposedly uttered these now infamous words, but out of a barnacled ignorance that grows and eventually blinds all ...

Beyond the Culture Wars: A Faith of Our Own

RLC Editor

May 11, 2012

General

The first President I remember is Bill Clinton. To be more specific: Bill Clinton’s second term. I’ve heard spectacles of the House Republican takeover in 1994 and stories of the Clinton v. Gingrich era but my ...