The Best of 2012
As Red Letter turns the page on 2012 we look back at the best pieces from redletterchristians.org:
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Seven Reasons Why Young Adults Quit Church - by: Christian Piatt
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What does Jesus t...
4th Anniversary of Dobson's "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America"
BY: JIMMY SPENCER JR. -- Today is the four year anniversary of the Focus on the Family Action’s release of a "Letter...
Is Choosing to Not Vote Selfish?
BY: SHELDON C. GOOD -- number of my Christian friends have been talking and writing about how they are not going to vote in the...
Why We Need to Build This Meme: #JesusIsMyCandidate
BY: MORGAN GUYTON -- Every Christian who cares more about Jesus than winning arguments or staying...
How it All Happened: My Prayer at the DNC
It’s been a whirlwind.
I came home from work last Wednesday night, August 29th, flipped through the major network channels and was quickly disturbed by the bickering and bantering of the political campaigns, ...
American Christianity is at War Against Itself
As the national political climate becomes increasingly more polarized and as religion increasingly identifies itself in political terms, we are seeing a widening divide in Christianity itself, one for which a...
The Olympics, Human Rights, and Holy Mischief
"God Is Love, " inscribed on the tracksuit of the athlete who would become the second-fastest man alive, is what first caught the attention of Australian Olympic official Ray Weinberg in the early '60s. But it...
Social Location at Wild Goose
At Wild Goose, I was humbled to be among justice-seeking Christians seeking to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
I see a deep connection between the personal practice of simple living and activism for social...
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary
Why I voted for Jesus instead of Obama in the primary…
Because, obviously, President Obama is uncontested during the primary election so nothing is actually on the line by writing in a candidate like Jesu...
If It’s Armageddon, Do I Have To Do My Homework?
My son, Mattias, was in a religious school in town for a while for preschool. We knew going in that their beliefs did not align in a lot of ways with ours, but there are limited options in a town the size ...