Politics

Environmental Racism & COVID-19

August 29, 2020

The best thing that we've known to do is to truly take on that Jeremiah 29. How do we seek the peace and prosperity of those who don't have the option to leave? They are stuck here, and they are struggling to just meet those basic provisional needs for themselves.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 28, 2020

Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Politics

The Statue of Liberty is weeping at some of the viciousness of these policies. There are 92 scriptures that specifically talk about hospitality to the stranger.

We Go There: Abortion

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 27, 2020

Politics, Theology, Women

I theorized maybe this is not so much about being pro-life. If this is the only thing that is guiding your vote, maybe there is something deeper, a kind of a scapegoat mechanism happening.

Repentance and Redemption Inside the White Church

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 26, 2020

General, Politics, Theology

I began with Charles and asked him, “As a Choctaw man who follows Jesus on the Red Road, are there parallels that you see between the politics of the White church today and the politics of the White church in the days of the Choctaw removal?”

The National Town Hall on Evangelical Faith and Politics

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 24, 2020

General, Politics, Theology

Politics, however, is not synonymous with partisanship. Politics is the conversations we have with each other about the decisions we make about how the polis will be led. In fact, our founding president told us that if it ever gets to be too partisan, we will no longer be able to govern. We are at that point.

With an Eye to DNC, Faith Activists Hold Revival for Social Justice

RLC Editor

August 18, 2020

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Revival

Fred Martin pulled out his tongs, gripping a piece of red-hot steel, from the forge and turned to place it on the anvil. Camille Mays brought the ham...

For Christians, Is There ‘A Time to Hate?’

Craig M. Watts

August 13, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

Hate is not found in any list of virtues. Yet, interestingly enough, we find scripture saying, “There is…a time to love, and a time to hate” (Ecclesiastes 3:8)

Federal Executions are One More Example of Trump Administration Overreach

Shane Claiborne

August 6, 2020

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

The United States has been steadily moving away from the death penalty. State by state, executions drop nearly every year to historic lows.

Imagining a Christian Resistance

Bjorn Philip Beer

August 4, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

I became, in a way, an amateur scholar of fascist movements as I studied my family members involvement. What side would I be on? I always asked myself.

Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity

Stephen Mattson

July 29, 2020

Global, Politics, Theology

Instead of loving our neighbors, “Christian” propaganda will tell us to deport them, ban them, incarcerate them, discriminate against them, outlaw them, and even bomb them. It will attempt to silence the oppressed and amplify the oppressor.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

We Go There: Abortion

Repentance and Redemption Inside the White Church

The National Town Hall on Evangelical Faith and Politics

With an Eye to DNC, Faith Activists Hold Revival for Social Justice

For Christians, Is There ‘A Time to Hate?’

Federal Executions are One More Example of Trump Administration Overreach

Imagining a Christian Resistance

Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity

Why I Left and Why I Stayed

‘Go and Do Likewise’: Pursuing the Biblical Call to Justice

Hatred Toward Asian Americans is Not a New Evil

No ‘Normal’ Way to Heal

Gather Round the Forge (An Excerpt from Beating Guns)