ancestors – Red Letter Christians

Still Christian? A Prayer for the Reckoning

January 27, 2021

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

We are witnessing the ways that Christianity’s tentacles have bound themselves to patriarchy, nationalism, and white supremacy. For many of us rooted in this tradition, this is a moment of reckoning with its violence.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Jon Mathieu

September 25, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

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

A Common Thread: Adaptation from Liberation is Here

Nikole Lim

September 2, 2020

Family and Parenting, Global, Women

I was twenty years old when I first met Nekesa. I landed in Kenya to capture stories for my thesis film about women who inspire hope in their communities. A friend invited me to sit in during her university cla...