Theology – Red Letter Christians

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

September 25, 2020

God clearly was not concerned with capitalist sensibilities. God’s sense of justice was not constrained by the laws of the free market or Friedman’s shareholder theory. What is fair and right and just in God’s eyes is for no one to live in poverty

On Turning the Other Cheek (And How It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means)

Corey Farr

September 18, 2020

Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Theology

In the Bava Kamma Mishnah (the traditional Jewish interpretation of the law), a slap incurred a fine of 200 silver coins - but a backhanded slap required a payment of 400, the same amount as for spitting on someone. It was more than violence. It was degrading

Review of Reading While Black

Bill Cayley

September 17, 2020

Books, Race, Theology

Reading While Black is not, in the end, just about Black Christianity, Black church history, or Black Biblical theology. Rather, it is a significant contribution to the larger Christian conversation over what it means to be the multi-ethnic body of Christ.

The Compass of the Beatitudes

Terry Webb

September 16, 2020

Church Life, Practical Justice, Theology

Many of Jesus’ followers were angry. They had been anticipating the culmination of what God had promised, that once again the land would be theirs. But now they were subjects of the Roman Empire.

Jesus Isn’t on the Ballot. That Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Opt Out.

Shane Claiborne

September 14, 2020

General, Politics, Theology

We had some solid ideas for serious change in America back then. Like putting the Amish in charge of Homeland Security and melting all of our weapons into garden tools and enacting the biblical year of Jubilee, where property is redistributed and financial debts are forgiven. We were dead serious about some of those ideas (and still are). A lot has changed

Inclusive Hymn Rewrite Challenge

RLC Editor

September 4, 2020

Art, Practical Justice, Theology

There is nothing gratuitous about the arts right now. They are not added, they are essential—like spirituals in the hell of cotton fields, anti-war songs of the 60s, AIDS blankets and inner city murals and poetry that says what everybody’s tired souls are feeling.

Faith and Politics: Which Guides the Other?

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 31, 2020

Church Life, Politics, Theology

Jesus is someone who really made a change where he was, and his love was sacrificial. If that's the Jesus that we teach, especially in my Evangelical spaces, that would be a game-changer for the way people view politics, for the way people view how change should be done in our country.

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.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

On Turning the Other Cheek (And How It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means)

Review of Reading While Black

The Compass of the Beatitudes

Jesus Isn’t on the Ballot. That Doesn’t Mean Christians Can Opt Out.

Inclusive Hymn Rewrite Challenge

Faith and Politics: Which Guides the Other?

We Go There: Abortion

Repentance and Redemption Inside the White Church

The National Town Hall on Evangelical Faith and Politics

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Cathedral of the Tropics and Worshipping Through a Pandemic

Communities of Moral Deliberation

On Gender Equality: We Have Made Great Strides & We Are Not There Yet

Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness