love – Red Letter Christians

Choosing Love at Belonging’s Expense and Wondering What Now

March 15, 2021

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice

It is awfully convenient to believe the right thing to do is whatever you want, at anyone else’s expense. It felt like the lives of the sick and vulnerable didn’t matter. Then George Floyd was murdered.

Love is the Most Important Command

Vanessa Stricker

December 18, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

Maybe we fear that love is a zero-sum game, that if we give of ourselves there might not be anything left for us. But love is not about self-abnegation.

Lunchtime Grace: Lessons from the Meal Line

April Keech

September 11, 2020

Church Life, General, Practical Justice

For this man revealed the compassion of Christ to cover someone who was exposed, to protect someone in their nakedness, and at risk to himself, broke the rules of the lunch time line. He taught me something about the reach of grace.

Compassion Must Trump Conviction

Jon Mathieu

August 20, 2020

Church Life, LGBTQ+, Theology

Just because we use the Bible to make an argument does not mean the argument is loving or correct; just because we say we love someone does not mean we are actually engaged in loving them.

For Christians, Is There ‘A Time to Hate?’

Craig M. Watts

August 13, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

Hate is not found in any list of virtues. Yet, interestingly enough, we find scripture saying, “There is…a time to love, and a time to hate” (Ecclesiastes 3:8)

Let’s Have Church! (By Loving Our Neighbors)

Marshall Taylor

May 27, 2020

Global, Practical Justice, Theology

In seeking eternal life, are we not making choices about who we love as our neighbor?

Voting for the Common Good

Doug Pagitt

May 23, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

Encouraging people of faith to bring about a change on election day by making the common good their voting criteria.

The Renewal of All Things

Corey Farr

April 4, 2020

Church Life, General, Theology

The Jesus of Revelation 21 is "making all things new," that is, re-newing all things to their original intent in a way which far surpasses that which has come before. He is making all things kainos.