Pharisees – Red Letter Christians

What would (those who crucified) Jesus do?

April 3, 2024

Church Life, General, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Revival

It would be easy to make the argument that Christianity in the 21st has taken on an identity few of the original disciples would recognize. Or maybe they would recognize it – but certainly not as anything Je...

A Counter-Cultural Church Grows in Brooklyn

Tony Campolo

September 16, 2018

Church Life, General, LGBTQ+, Theology

He sings what Jesus might say to such contemporary Pharisees — “Get Outta My Way!”

Gungor and the Two Faces of Evangelicalism

Derek Flood

August 11, 2014

Church Life, General

AUG 11, 2014 | BY: DEREK FLOOD -- This past week the Christian corner of the internet has been somewhat abuzz with headlines like...

Is Jesus “Religious”?

Micah Bales

August 9, 2014

Church Life, General, Theology

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AUG 9, 2014 | BY: MICAH BALES -- All my life I just assumed that Jesus is a religious figure, the founder of Christianity. And why wouldn't...

We Need New Wineskins (Or Why Evangelicalism Needs To Be Abandoned)

Zack Hunt

April 1, 2014

Church Life, General, Theology

APRIL 1, 2014 | BY: ZACK HUNT -- Two years ago I wrote a series of posts entitled Abandoning Evangelicalism. Today, I’m convinced...

The Jesus Lens: Can a Red Letter Christian question the "red letters"?

Derek Flood

January 13, 2014

Church Life, General, Theology

JAN 13, 2014 | BY: DEREK FLOOD -- Many people have proposed the need to interpret Scripture through a Jesus-shaped lens. In many...

New Testament Anti-smackdown

Morf Morford

June 22, 2013

Church Life, General, Theology

JUNE 22, 2013 | BY: MORF MORFORD -- If there’s anything Jesus, then or now, would NEVER be, it is the triumphant, swaggering...

Honor and Shame: A First Century Lens for Today

Spenser Bolte

June 7, 2013

General, Politics

JUNE 7, 2013 | BY: SPENSER BOLTE -- Is our society really any different? Get rich or die tryin' right? We do a lot of things for status...

UnChristian: Who Do I Emulate?

Colin McCartney

April 18, 2011

General

I have been doing some thinking about the book UnChristian in which non – Christians had the opportunity to share their views of Evangelical Christians. Not surprisingly they are not too impressed by us....

Turning Again: Tax Day

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

April 16, 2011

General

This year, Tax Day (April 15) happened to be the Friday before Good Friday. For those of us on the Lenten journey, this puts the question of whether we should pay taxes to the Empire right in the context wh...