The Jesus Lens: Can a Red Letter Christian question the "red letters"?
JAN 13, 2014 | BY: DEREK FLOOD -- Many people have proposed the need to interpret Scripture through a Jesus-shaped lens. In many...
Come Celebrate: Red Letter Christians' 3 Year Anniversary
DEC 6, 2013 | BY: BRIAN BALLARD -- This weekend marks the three-year anniversary of the beginning of Red Letter Christians. To be exact...
You Are Not Alone
Last week I told you how I met Tony Campolo and how found myself directing Tony’s new initiative, Red Letter Christians. Since that first day 30 months ago Red Letter Christians has undergone a few organizatio...
We are Red Letter Christians
I began working for Tony Campolo almost five years ago. I was a student at Eastern University and needed an on-campus job that could help subsidize the food and fun portion of college. I had heard Tony speak al...
How Does a Red Letter Christian Read the Bible?: A Jesus-shaped Proposal
How does a Red Letter Christian read the Bible? From the name, you'd think it means that we focus on the red letters of Jesus. This is certainly true. But does that mean that we ignore the regular black lett...
The Power of Being a Partial Bible Christian!
“By calling ourselves Red Letter Christians, we are alluding to those old versions of the Bible wherein the words of Jesus are printed in red. In adopting the name, we are saying that we are committed to l...
The Black Letter Narrative: More than Red Letters
“By calling ourselves Red Letter Christians, we are alluding to those old versions of the Bible wherein the words of Jesus are printed in red. In adopting the name, we are saying that we are committed to livi...
Defending 'Red Letter Christians': Answers to the Most Common Critiques
Today’s blog post is in response to a comment I received from my post “Why the Religious Right Will Dominate”:
“How sad that the depth of the ‘new and improved evangelical’ theology is limited to the ‘red lett...
A Senior Devil’s Strategy to Disable Red Letter Christians
A very high-ranking devil is training his minions to thwart Red Letter Christians…
“If we’re going to effectively persuade him of his impotency at impacting a world in need, be sure to obscure the fact that...
Responding to Gandhi
Gandhi once told Rufus Jones, the Quaker theologian and missionary to India, that Christians were "so unlike" their Christ. The good news is that there is a growing movement emerging across America (which goe...