Letter – Red Letter Christians

A Prayer Request for Tony and Update From the Campolo Family

July 6, 2020

Red Letter Community, please read the letter shared by Tony's family below: Dear Friends, On the evening of June 20 our father, Tony Campolo, had a stroke that partially paralyzed the left side of his fa...

Letter to Homeland Security: Release Vulnerable Detainees

Alexia Salvatierra

March 29, 2020

Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics

Sheltering in place may keep us apart, but it does not have to keep us from coming together on behalf of justice.

An Open Letter to Pastor Jeffress: Fight Racial Injustice in the Spirit of Rev. Dr. King

Frederick Douglass Haynes III

January 15, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Race

Now I’m wondering which Dr. King you were referring to? It must have been the sanitized myth of the “apostle of nonviolence” that America created in order to fit her narrative of exceptionalism.

Consider the Ram: A Letter on Not Sacrificing One Another on the Altar of Self-Righteousness

Eric Minton

December 12, 2017

Church Life, Global, Immigration & Refugees, LGBTQ+, Politics, Race, Theology

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What if our acts of fidelity to the tribe our back bumper testifies to have actually been the thing God was satirically calling into question from the beginning?

#TheDeclaration: Speaking the Truth with Love, Without Apology

Lisa Sharon Harper

September 11, 2017

Church Life, General, LGBTQ+, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

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#TheDeclaration should not have worked. It’s too long. It had too many drafters. But it did work, and it is working. Why? I believe it’s because the message is the anthem of our era.

Charlottesville Call to Conscience

RLC Editor

August 28, 2017

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

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Opposing white supremacy is not a partisan issue. All people of faith and conscience must commit to the deep work of justice.

1300 Clergy Speak Out Against Discrimination in the Name of Religion

RLC Editor

March 29, 2017

Interfaith, LGBTQ+, Politics, Practical Justice

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We see it as government-sanctioned discrimination hiding under the guise of religion.

An Open Letter to Tennessee (and Others in America’s Heartland Who May Be Listening In)

Eric Minton

February 24, 2015

Politics

Tennessee, perhaps you should rethink your state book proposal. Because the ancient text you’ve selected doesn’t have incredibly favorable things to say about government officials who leverage religion for personal, financial, and political gain.