Martin Luther King – Red Letter Christians

As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’

January 16, 2023

Christian Nationalism, General, Immigration & Refugees, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Revival, Theology

Editor’s Note: Originally published on the RLC Blog January 31, 2018. Editor’s Note: As we move towards the month where we celebrate the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., into Black History M...

Meet the first minister of gun violence prevention

Emily McFarlan Miller

June 3, 2022

General

“The mass shootings capture our attention because it could be us. The randomness feels so much worse as opposed to the one child that gets ahold of a gun or the one that gets shot by a drive-by shooting. Those, oftentimes, we’ve become numb to, and we’ve just expected them to be normal, but it’s not. It’s not normal,”

America is exceptional — in its addiction to violence and war

Shane Claiborne

April 6, 2022

Death Penalty, Peace & Nonviolence, Race

We have work to do to continue to "break the silence." As our world is increasingly plagued by violence — not just in Ukraine but also in the streets of America — we must continue King’s legacy of nonviolence. We, too, must keep breaking the silence.

Highlights from “MLK 55 Years Later: Can the Church Study War No More?” Event

Shane Claiborne

April 4, 2022

Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice, Race

We are up against some fierce principalities and powers – the triplet evils of racism, materialism, and militarism are as alive and well as they were 55 years ago. But the love of God is the strongest force in the world. Nothing is more powerful than God’s love.

#PoorPeoplesCampaign: 40 Days of Direct Action

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

May 11, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

Many people have been organizing and working to introduce an agenda that neither party has been talking about.

Am I Not a Theologian, Too?

F. Romall Smalls

March 24, 2018

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

Theologians are important in all our lives. They are the researchers and scholars who write and lecture about the weighty questions we all — people of faith and no faith — contemplate and wrestle with.

As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’

Otis Moss III

January 31, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

In times such as this, we need not celebration and commemoration of men and women who lived valiantly, but we need to be disturbed and re-energized; not by the “safe” King, created by certain persons to tone down his radical legacy, but we need the radical King, the radical, Hamer, and the radical Rustin.

The Unveiling of Christian Nationalism

William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

January 29, 2018

Christian Nationalism, Church Life, Global, Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Theology

This false slaveholder religion has not only propped up political powers that hurt poor people of all colors; it has also diminished the souls of those who inhabit its hypocritical contradictions.

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.