natural disaster – Red Letter Christians

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

September 10, 2021

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Practical Justice

The journey ahead is complex and rightly so—filled with both triage and rehab efforts, insurance claims and bucket truck parades, adrenaline highs and compassion fatigue, questions about climate change and environmental refugees, retelling the story, and sharing the load again and again and again.

The Morning After Ida Makes Landfall, a Prayer

Patrice Gopo

August 30, 2021

Creation & Environment, General, Practical Justice

Some days I wake in the morning disoriented, my mind mixing up my dreamscape with the reality of what transpires in life. In my dreamscape, my arms reach for a cerulean sky, a perfect sky. This image becomes th...

My Response to the Typhoon in the Philippines

Tony Campolo

November 14, 2013

General, Global, Practical Justice

NOV 14, 2013 | BY: TONY CAMPOLO -- The super-storm typhoon that devastated the Philippines last Friday left an unconfirmed estimate...

Tornadoes, Butterfly People and Finding the Sacred in Collective Stories

Rachel Lloyd

May 30, 2013

Church Life, General

May 30, 2013 | BY: RACHEL LLOYD -- What emotions are caused by a devastating natural disaster? Horror, shock, guilt and confusion are...

Red Letter's Response to Superstorm Sandy

RLC Editor

November 9, 2012

General

BY: RLC EDITOR -- Red Letter Christians has teamed up to support the Fuller Center for Housing in their relief efforts...

The Judgment of Sodom – When Disaster Strikes

Morf Morford

November 2, 2012

Church Life, Theology

BY MORF MORFORD: When disaster, human or natural does strike, the theology vultures circle, searching for and scrap of...

5 God Excuses to Avoid After a Natural Disaster

Kent Annan

October 31, 2012

General

BY: KENT ANNAN -- In a natural disaster aftermath, whether caused by hurricane or earthquake or...

A National Crisis – It is Time for the Church to Create an Act of God

Kirk Lyman-Barner

June 5, 2012

General

Before -- This Foreclosed Home was Donated by a Bank in Lousiville, KY The foreclosure crisis is a national disaster. The Christian Church should treat it as such and respond. When a tornado, flood or h...

Occupy Wall Street, the Church, and the Apocalypse

Jeremy John

November 5, 2011

General

How long have we been comfortable in the 1st world church? Nourishing ourselves on the warm broth of prayer and fellowship, resting and gathering strength, singing worship songs that seek an inward peace fr...

The Natural Disaster of Empathy Overload

Kurt Willems

May 27, 2011

General

I once heard Pastor Shane Hipps (an expert on media technology and marketing) describe a consequence of globalized media. He talked about how as humans, we are designed to empathize with one another which sho...