poverty – Red Letter Christians

Bishop Barber’s Remarks to the Vatican Conference on Ending Poverty

October 6, 2021

I am honored to be here at the Vatican on the feast of St. Francis to share with you on behalf of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in my home, the United States of America.

Dazzling and Cruel Transitions Out of Homelessness

Sparrow Etter Carlson

October 5, 2021

General, Practical Justice

There is an aspect of health and wholeness that cannot be defined by Maslow or medicine or psychology during transitions like this.

Facing Our Shattered State

Bob Ekblad

October 4, 2021

General, Politics, Practical Justice

What will it take for people to finally acknowledge our broken, shattered state?

The Uncomfortable In-Between

RLC Editor

July 14, 2021

Books, Global, Practical Justice

Discomfort leads us to a place where we are bothered when we compare what we have to what others don’t have.

To Get Our Nation Back On Track, We Need A ‘Holy Recovery’

Jennifer Butler

July 9, 2021

Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

Scarcity has been the name of the game for far too long in American politics. We are constantly offered a choice between which group of people is forced to go without, in the name of austerity.

‘Go and Do Likewise’: Pursuing the Biblical Call to Justice

Cameron Phillips

April 12, 2021

General, Global, Practical Justice

Who would your ‘Samaritan’ be today? A politician? A troll on Twitter? A violent terrorist? A police officer? An anarchist? Someone with a different sexual orientation?

Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19

Kevin Nye

January 6, 2021

General, Global, Practical Justice

Instead, we perpetuate myths about homelessness that embolden our stance against policy that will set them free. We stay secure in our implicit and explicit beliefs that certain people have opted out of deserving our compassion.

We Ring Our Bells for You, America

William J. Barber and Liz Theoharis

October 27, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

At noon on each day of the week prior to November 3rd—and each hour on the hour as Americans vote on Election Day—faith communities in all 50 states will ring bells from our houses of worship and on the sidewalks of our communities. These bells will toll for you, calling every American to march to the polls and protect voting rights.

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Jon Mathieu

September 25, 2020

General, Practical Justice, Theology

God clearly was not concerned with capitalist sensibilities. God’s sense of justice was not constrained by the laws of the free market or Friedman’s shareholder theory. What is fair and right and just in God’s eyes is for no one to live in poverty

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.

Bishop Barber’s Remarks to the Vatican Conference on Ending Poverty

Dazzling and Cruel Transitions Out of Homelessness

Facing Our Shattered State

The Uncomfortable In-Between

To Get Our Nation Back On Track, We Need A ‘Holy Recovery’

‘Go and Do Likewise’: Pursuing the Biblical Call to Justice

Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19

We Ring Our Bells for You, America

Poverty: Jesus, Jubilee, and Reparations

Lunchtime Grace: Lessons from the Meal Line

Cultivated Meat and the Prayer of Saint Francis

Transcending Boundaries as People of Faith

We Must See No Stranger

A Time to Grieve

Drawing My Own Map in a Post-Evangelical World

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