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BREAKING: Obama administration stops deporting young immigrants

June 15, 2012

A day after the Evangelical Immigration Table released their "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform, " the Obama administration stepped forward to announce they will stop deporting young il...

On justice, marriage, and Obama

Michael Kimpan

June 3, 2012

General

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…because not quite enough has been said about this yet. If you’ve read a news magazine, been online or watched CNN in the past week, you know that May 9 President Obama finally came out and declared he was f...

Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)

Brian McLaren

April 18, 2012

General

For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right...

Young Adults: Forget Church, Follow Jesus

Christian Piatt

April 14, 2012

General

Two recent articles grabbed my attention, partly because they resonate quite a bit with the pieces I’ve written about Why Young Adults Leave Church. It’s also interesting to me that so many people seem to be t...

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

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

Stop Abusing the Word "Biblical"!

Morgan Guyton

February 12, 2012

General

One of the great epidemics of modern American evangelicalism is the abuse of the word “Biblical” by attaching it to causes and ideas that have nothing to do with the Bible. Last month, I was at a meeting with ...

Evangelicals Support Newt Gingrich

Tony Campolo

January 26, 2012

General

The need for Red Letter Christians to no longer be labeled “Evangelicals” became abundantly clear this past Saturday following the South Carolina Republican Primary. Most Evangelicals claim to be politically no...

Sweet Friendship Ahead for Mormons and Evangelical Christians

Kay Campbell

January 26, 2012

General

I have seen a vision of the future of relations between evangelical Christians and Mormons. It’s going to be sweet. This vision came, of all places, at Tuesday’s pro-life rally when an old Catholic brother ...

What Would MLK Do? Christians and Climate Change

Jarrod McKenna

January 16, 2012

Global, Practical Justice

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...