Politics – Red Letter Christians

Still Evangelical? Literary Festival Panelists Question Label After Trump, #MeToo

April 20, 2018

The writers on the ethnically and racially diverse panel discussed how politics has strained their relationships with American evangelicalism and has highlighted what they see as the church’s silence on the problems of racism and sexual abuse.

Let’s Change Course Starting This Tax Day

Simone Campbell

April 17, 2018

Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

This tax law makes me weep for who we have become as a nation. We are failing our people.

A Glimpse of Heaven

Angela Denker

April 12, 2018

Church Life, Global, Politics, Practical Justice, Sexual Minorities, Theology

Rare is the person who wants hell to exist because they need it for themselves. We need hell as a convenient place to put all the people we hate. As an option for ourselves and our loved ones, well, hell becomes a lot less popular.

At ‘Red Letter Revival,’ Leaders Give Voice to Evangelicals on the Margins

Jack Jenkins

April 10, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Sexual Minorities, Theology

In Lynchburg they aimed to fellowship, and to reaffirm their values — but also to serve as a thorn in the side of those who promote a conservative brand of their faith that has aligned itself with President Trump.

Of Pastors and Presidents

Mark Silk

April 8, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Theology

Once upon a time, we were prepared to think of the president of the United States as the universal symbol of the country. Now he’s little more than the shepherd of one or the other partisan tribe.

#LynchburgRevival LIVE STREAM

RLC Editor

April 6, 2018

General, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

Come expectant! Bring a desire for revival, a desire to see the Living God do a new thing in our generation.

Revival: A Liturgy for Repentance

Britney Winn Lee

April 5, 2018

Church Life, General, Politics, Theology

We need an altar call that invites us into a third way and an aisle that leads us to the love of neighbor. We need a raised hand declaring the decision to live for good news that is good for all people.

Don’t Domesticate MLK

Tom Krattenmaker

April 4, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

Like it or not, Martin Luther King was controversial — and political.

What If We Heard Each Other This Easter?

Angela Denker

March 31, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

And what I heard Jesus saying to me is I had to hear the seniors. I had to listen to my own elders and yes, at this moment, Jesus was asking me to listen to the old white men at Bible study.

The Power & Legacy of Revivalism

Tony Campolo

March 28, 2018

General, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

Finney's revivals, as part of calling his listeners to being converted via the power of the Holy Spirit, also called them to a commitment to work for social change.

Still Evangelical? Literary Festival Panelists Question Label After Trump, #MeToo

Let’s Change Course Starting This Tax Day

A Glimpse of Heaven

At ‘Red Letter Revival,’ Leaders Give Voice to Evangelicals on the Margins

Of Pastors and Presidents

#LynchburgRevival LIVE STREAM

Revival: A Liturgy for Repentance

Don’t Domesticate MLK

What If We Heard Each Other This Easter?

Heeding the Sacred Call to Give Sanctuary to the Vulnerable

‘Sense of Place’: An Earth Day Sunday Resource

Still Evangelical? Literary Festival Panelists Question Label After Trump, #MeToo