civil disobedience – Red Letter Christians

Announcing a Season of Nonviolent Moral Direct Action

July 19, 2021

If we cannot refuse cooperation with voter suppression now, we have no hope of representation in the coming decade that will work to address the interconnected crises of climate catastrophe, inequality, systemic racism, and militarism.

Jury Convicts 7 Catholic Pacifists of Breaking Into Nuclear Submarine Base

Yonat Shimron

October 24, 2019

Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Theology

"This is an idol. That display is a shrine to missiles."

Awaiting Trial for Breaking into a Nuclear Base, 7 Catholic Activists Are Unrepentant

Yonat Shimron

July 11, 2019

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

Do we really want peace?

ICE’s War on Christmas

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

November 30, 2018

Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

In 2018, the “War on Christmas” is an assault led by President Trump and justified by his evangelical enablers.

We Will Not Cooperate

Shane Claiborne

June 27, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

We will not be silent in an age of injustice — in this reign of terror of our contemporary Herod.

A Call For Mass Noncooperation With the Racist Policies of “America First”

William J. Barber

June 23, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Interfaith, LGBTQ+, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

We call on all people of goodwill who know this administration’s “zero tolerance” policy is evil to follow the poor people of this nation who have led us in civil disobedience over the past six weeks.

King’s Poor People’s Campaign Lives Again

Yonat Shimron

May 16, 2018

Church Life, Immigration & Refugees, LGBTQ+, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

“We want to build sufficient power to bend the moral arc of this nation out of this poverty rut into the land of plenty,”

Kids Can Fix Our Guns Fixation

Jeffrey Salkin

February 20, 2018

General, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

It is now up to the kids — who saw their friends and classmates gunned down; who are now too traumatized to go back to their classrooms; who saw their peers murdered in cold blood.