Christianity – Red Letter Christians

How Not to be a Crappy Christian

February 16, 2021

As professors—one a politically-engaged theologian and the other a theologically-engaged political scientist—we admit that this situation leaves us concerned and scratching our heads. In our current American context, we wonder: what does it mean to live an authentic life of faith?

Still Christian? A Prayer for the Reckoning

Lydia Wylie-Kellerman

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.

Jesus Spoke Truth From the Dirt, Not a Stage

Christian Canady

June 17, 2020

Church Life, General, Theology

I was taught a lot about how Jesus’ death was about me and almost nothing about how his death was an act of suppression and hate by those in power

Dear Evangelical Church: A Goodbye

Rachel Ophoff

June 10, 2020

Church Life, Politics, Theology

I felt that, short of Heaven, I had found home. Yesterday, I said goodbye.

Disembodiment, Embodiment, and Re-Embodiment

Lydia Vander Stelt

June 6, 2020

Church Life, Race, Theology

Our call as white Christians to love mercy, do justice, and walk humbly is seen in the practices of disembodiment, embodiment, and re-embodiment.

American Christianity vs. Faithful Christianity

Chris Ebling

March 21, 2019

Immigration & Refugees, LGBTQ+, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Theology, Women

Faithful Christianity confronts the power structure in pursuit of justice. American Christianity wields power to oppress others.

The 10 Most Dangerous Places to Be a Christian

Open Doors

January 16, 2019

Church Life, Global, Interfaith

A new report from Open Doors reveals that more than 245 million Christians endure high, very high, or extreme persecution.

The Church’s Oppression of Women

Stephen Mattson

October 23, 2018

Books, Church Life, Theology, Women

Christianity has a history of manipulating the Bible to reinforce patriarchy.

How American Christians Can Break Free from ‘Slaveholder Religion’

Jonathan Merritt

May 8, 2018

Books, Church Life, Politics, Race, Theology

I don’t know how to explain Trumpvangelicals apart from white Christianity’s long history of justifying and defending white supremacy. How else do you reconcile “America first” with “the last shall be first”?