Healthcare – Red Letter Christians

Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19

January 6, 2021

Instead, we perpetuate myths about homelessness that embolden our stance against policy that will set them free. We stay secure in our implicit and explicit beliefs that certain people have opted out of deserving our compassion.

Environmental Racism & COVID-19

Lisa Sharon Harper

August 29, 2020

Global, Politics, Practical Justice

The best thing that we've known to do is to truly take on that Jeremiah 29. How do we seek the peace and prosperity of those who don't have the option to leave? They are stuck here, and they are struggling to just meet those basic provisional needs for themselves.

An Inheritance of Suffering: A Review of ‘This Too Shall Last’

Sue Fulmore

July 28, 2020

Books, Church Life, General

She becomes a loving whistleblower uncovering the ways the church has failed to embrace suffering as part of its inheritance, and how the suffering ones have been left on the scrap heap of success-driven Christianity.

On the Frontlines: Preventing Coronavirus in Cox’s Bazar

Alice Zhang

March 27, 2020

Global, Immigration & Refugees, Practical Justice

In places like refugee camps, crowded conditions and poor hygiene can increase infection rates.

How to Talk More About Sin

Eric Minton

January 29, 2019

Family and Parenting, General

What if we’ve been misunderstanding the point of sin?

#Faith4Healthcare: On Being One with the Vulnerable

Don Golden

July 26, 2017

General, Politics, Practical Justice

My arrest was a liturgical act, an expression of worship and covenantal solidarity with Christ and his vulnerable ones.

We Cannot Turn Back Now: Call to Action for Healthcare

William J. Barber

July 23, 2017

General, Politics, Practical Justice

The fight for healthcare in our nation today is a fight for the soul of America. We cannot turn back now.

BREAKING: Christians Unite In Direct Action to Oppose the ‘Better Care Reconciliation Act’

RLC Editor

July 18, 2017

Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

Through a series of actions, clergy and moral activists will speak out — and risk arrest through civil disobedience — to demonstrate moral dissent over the health bill under consideration in the Senate.

Now Is The Time For Prophetic Moral Action

William J. Barber

July 15, 2017

General, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice

It’s time for those of us who are called to proclaim and embody God’s Word to put on our clerical robes, take up our holy books, and speak truth in the public square.