Battle Lines Form over Social Justice: Is It Gospel or Heresy?
Who gets to decide which cultures and which assumptions are closer to biblical truth?
A Confession of Faith & Love
I am grateful for the input and critiques from this group of long experienced Christian leaders who have blazed the path that RLC is treading these days in our commitment to Jesus and justice.
The Wall I Pretended Not to See
I imagine white America’s blind spots like invisible crosses on our side of the fence. Crosses that represent our hardness of heart, our privilege, our stunning lack of compassion.
Covenant Fidelity: An Interview with Walter Brueggemann
When they asked Jesus for a great commandment he said you can’t have just one, you get two so that love of God and love of neighbor are intimately connected.
Easter Made Me Do It! On Scapegoats, Asylum Seekers and Being Arrested
MAY 1, 2014 | BY: JARROD MCKENNA -- Easter reveals the violent shape of our society's scapegoat mechanisms that crucify...
What Caring Looks Like (and how we got it wrong with World Vision)
MAR 31, 2014 | BY: AUSTIN THOMAS -- I spent last Saturday walking around Anthem, AZ. It’s a strip of outlet malls and a Wal-Mart...
Living in One World at a Time
MAR 23, 2014 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- Jesus rarely spoke of eternal life – the vast majority of his words were about everyday….
3 Reasons Why ‘Tough Love’ Rarely Works
MAR 14, 2014 | BY: MATT DARVAS -- We all crave the kind of love and affection that encourages, supports and affirms us...
The Good News No One Needed
MAR 1, 2014 | BY: DORCAS CHENG-TOZUN - I had grown up in a loving home, had absorbed the endlessly looping American messages...
Ayn Rand vs. Jesus Christ: FIGHT!
JUNE 18, 2013 | BY: YAHOLO HOYT -- I believe the potent philosophy of Ayn Rand has taken hold within Christian thought in such a way...