It really gets old, doesn’t it? Every election cycle, the story is the same. This Christian says that Christian is not really a Christian. And why is that? Is it because they differ on critical issues rel...
The first President I remember is Bill Clinton. To be more specific: Bill Clinton’s second term. I’ve heard spectacles of the House Republican takeover in 1994 and stories of the Clinton v. Gingrich era but my ...
Few things are more offensive to those committed to the pull yourself up by your own bootstraps philosophy than the message that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, n...
Red Letter Christianity tries to maintain a non-partisan posture because we believe that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. We believe that to cast Jesus in the guise of either political party is id...
No one enjoys being told bluntly, “you’re wrong.” It’s a statement that, even when surrounded by certainty, must be conveyed and expressed with grace, tranquility and, sometimes, a little humor. And in a ...
Last Monday was Presidents day.
So I tweeted, 'Jesus for president.' on my facebook wall, and with several followers on twitter, this generated some discussion. Some were in support of Jesus as a candidate...
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul recently argued for a “Golden Rule” in foreign policy in the first South Carolina GOP debate. “We endlessly bomb countries, ” he said, “and then we wonder why they ...
Over the past decade, my Evangelical friends regularly ask me how I can be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time. I understood why that asked the question. The Democratic Party has been overtly pro-cho...
A few months ago there was a provocative article written by Phil Zuckerman and Dan Cady called: Why Evangelicals Hate Jesus. It would be easy for many to be up in arms about such an article, but maybe it takes...
There are plenty of criticisms offered against today’s American youth and young adults. And despite the fact that I turn forty in a few weeks, I still consider myself among them: a kindred spirit of cultural o...