Siding with Jesus & Justice
White Evangelicalism is losing its credibility. It's time to adopt the new label of "Red Letter Christian" in order to define yourself and stand on the side of Jesus and justice.
Salvation for White People
It’s easy to point fingers at extremists carrying torches in Charlottesville. They need to be saved, we say, and we’re right. But we need to be saved too. And our silence gets in the way of our being saved.
Will America Pick Up Its Cross?
Today the colonizing spirit leads Christian conferences to flash all (or nearly all) white speaker lineups without a blush, promote white worship music as the gold Christian standard around the world, and build mega churches in the mold of mega malls and amusement parks that serve hundreds of thousands music and scripture disconnected from parishioners’ local contexts and needs.
Sound the Alarm: A Liturgy for Troubling Times
A call and response liturgy for the fighters of the good fight who feel constantly bombarded with the waves of a suffering world right now.
Lies from the Pit of Hell: The Dangerous Theology of Rev. Jeffress
Any God that has given Trump the authority to unleash vast devastation to “protect America” is not the God revealed in Jesus Christ but an idol wrapped in red, white, and blue.
Repentance in the Face of God’s Reckless Love
I don’t know if either of my daughters are gay or straight or will want to be in relationships at all. That isn’t the point. What worries me the most is what role they will play in a parable about love.
Red Letter Christians v. Donald Trump’s Evangelicals
How Donald Trump and white evangelicals are leading an all-out attack on the Gospel and the biblical message of liberating salvation.
A Good Christian Woman…Not That One
Women are messengers from God. Women are prophets. Women are preachers. Women's silence threatens the church and the world.
The Holy Tradition of Going to Jail for Jesus
There are a lot of ways to change the world. Going to jail isn’t the only way to do it. But it is one way.
Jesus Calls Us to Be Political, Not Partisan – Keep the Johnson Amendment
Faith and political partisanship are to be neither confused nor conflated.