beating guns – Red Letter Christians

It’s been a week since the Club Q shooting. Let’s not move on.

December 1, 2022

General, Gun Violence, LGBTQ+, Peace & Nonviolence, Race

Note: This piece originally appeared in Religion News Service. The LGBTQ community continues to bear a disproportionate amount of hateful gun violence in America. It has been a week since the Club Q shooting ...

American Altar: Poetry, Gun Violence, and the Gods to Whom We Sacrifice

Michael Stalcup

September 24, 2021

Art, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

We Americans are much slower to see the idols of our own times and cultures.

Gather Round the Forge (An Excerpt from Beating Guns)

RLC Editor

April 8, 2021

Books, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

Not many people get argued into thinking differently, but experiences and stories move us, especially when we have the humility to listen and to view the world from a different lens, from someone else’s eyes. W...

With an Eye to DNC, Faith Activists Hold Revival for Social Justice

RLC Editor

August 18, 2020

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Revival

Fred Martin pulled out his tongs, gripping a piece of red-hot steel, from the forge and turned to place it on the anvil. Camille Mays brought the hammer down, pounding methodically at the glowing metal: a shar...