October 2011 – Page 3 – Red Letter Christians

Evangelical School Cancels Breakfast with Bush

October 16, 2011

After news leaked that Tyndale University College and Seminary in Toronto, Ontario was planning an invitation-only fundraising breakfast with George W. Bush last month, it only took two days for the event to ...

Liberia, the Nobel Peace Prize, and Me

Jenny Rae Armstrong

October 15, 2011

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Last Friday, three women were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their commitment to women’s rights. Two of those women, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Leymah Gbowee, were from Liberia, the country I ...

Why Jesus might be a Republi-demo-liber-green-peace and freed-O-crat

Kurt Willems

October 14, 2011

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A few months ago there was a provocative article written by Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady called: Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus. It would be easy for many to be up in arms about such an article, but maybe it takes...

Living Into a New Story

Christian Piatt

October 13, 2011

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My wife, Amy, and I just got back from a quick trip to Las Vegas for my 40th birthday. I jumped off a 109-story building, we did the zip line down Freemont Street, watched a couple of shows, ate too much f...

In and Out of the Zoo

Morf Morford

October 12, 2011

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Where no gods are, spectres rule. Novalis One time I took a group of people in the drug rehab program to the local zoo. Most of our group had been to prison – some for years. Most were felons. Most of the w...

The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue

Tony Campolo

October 11, 2011

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I just returned from the 2011 meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. It is an amazing gathering that brings together heads of state, some of the richest people in the world, people in the field of entert...

Why Do People In Your Country Think I'm a Terrorist?

Jon Huckins

October 10, 2011

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Although we had only met each other a few days before, my friend looked at me with tears welling up in his eyes and said, “I am a Christian. I believe in Jesus the Messiah. Why do people in your country thi...

Listening to the Dead

Bert Montgomery

October 9, 2011

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In the fall of 1980, when I was 12 years old, I went with my dad into downtown New Orleans to his office on Magazine Street. Driving down Canal Street, the home of the beautiful and historic Saenger Theatre,...

Steve Jobs, God’s Vision & Here I Stand: #OccupyWallStreet NOT Afghanistan

Jarrod McKenna

October 8, 2011

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This week marks ten years since the occupation of Afghanistan started. I’ve just sat down to throw some thoughts on paper in between speaking engagements in New Zealand. The news here is all Rugby World Cup and...

Whose Side Does God Take?

Morgan Guyton

October 7, 2011

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I have a problem that perhaps you can relate to. I’m very good at taking sides according to the lines that the world draws for me rather than taking Jesus’ side. Right now, we are living in the midst of a st...