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.
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.
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.
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.
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.