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Oh Yeah! Connecticut Abolished the Death Penalty

April 26, 2012

THIS JUST IN… Big news. Connecticut abolished the death penalty yesterday. Only 33 more states to go. It’s time we stop killing people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong. In a histori...

What To Do About “Radical Feminist Nuns”

Christian Piatt

April 25, 2012

General

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It’s not exactly headline-worthy news that many Catholics actually hold personal beliefs that don’t line up with church doctrine. It does get a little more interesting, however, when an umbrella group for ...

"The land is mine" (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)

Morgan Guyton

April 16, 2012

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As the debate rages within Christianity over what the Bible teaches about economic "fairness, " a key chapter to peruse is Leviticus 25, which introduces the concept of the year of the jubilee that Jesus procl...

God's Word to Evangelicals…Through Brian McLaren

RLC Editor

April 11, 2012

General

A stone's throw from Starbucks - Joe, homeless and a dead ringer for blues singer Robert Johnson, tells Wheaton College freshman Wendy Gullivan that He is God and has a message for the Evangelicals...a mes...

True Meaning of Easter Lies in its Beauty, Not its Violence

Kay Campbell

April 10, 2012

Church Life, Theology

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Surely the truest way to find the God of Easter is not through contorted extractions of retribution and atonement.

Understanding the Criticism of KONY 2012

Derek Flood

March 22, 2012

General

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The viral video Kony 2012 has over 80 million hits on YouTube, and has become an internet phenomenon. The video is an artfully crafted and emotionally moving plea to stop Joseph Kony of the LRA, who is respon...

Whose Kingdom, Which Lord? Jesus & Nationalism, part 5 (Concluding Exhortations… Native Americans as Victims of Nationalism)

Kurt Willems

March 9, 2012

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This is part five of a five part series on Jesus and Nationalism. It reads as one fluid written sermon so you may want to read the rest of the series. I have never spoken this sermon but figured I would use...

The Reverse Mission: What White People Can Do About Racism

Chris Lahr

February 9, 2012

General

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Several years ago I was visiting the town I grew up in and was talking with a local youth worker about my life in Philly. Somewhere in the conversation she had the idea that it would be a great opportunity to ...

What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change

Jarrod McKenna

January 16, 2012

Global, Practical Justice

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Early in the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin said to King, "I have a feeling that the Lord had laid his hand upon you. And that is a dangerous, dangerous thing." Similarly, the FBI once described Marti...

This Train: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

Morf Morford

January 15, 2012

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“I’m not black, but there’s a whole lot of times I wish I could say I’m not white.” -Frank Zappa The history and progress of civil rights in America has never been easy, and many times it has been downright ...

Oh Yeah! Connecticut Abolished the Death Penalty

What To Do About “Radical Feminist Nuns”

"The land is mine" (the importance of Leviticus 25:23)

God's Word to Evangelicals…Through Brian McLaren

True Meaning of Easter Lies in its Beauty, Not its Violence

Understanding the Criticism of KONY 2012

Whose Kingdom, Which Lord? Jesus & Nationalism, part 5 (Concluding Exhortations… Native Americans as Victims of Nationalism)

The Reverse Mission: What White People Can Do About Racism

What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change

This Train: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

Disabilities and the Body of Christ

Imagining a Christian Resistance

Wheat and Weeds: Thoughts on Cancel Culture

The Disease Within a Disease

Political Propaganda is Destroying Christianity

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