Salvation – Red Letter Christians

Cross > Sword, an Excerpt from “Everyday Activism”

November 15, 2022

A few years ago, I read a groundbreaking book called Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. In this book, two political scientists named Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan loo...

This May Not be a Time for an Altar Call to Unity

Robyn Dyba

January 14, 2021

Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

Jesus doesn't bundle salvation or healing. He touches individuals. He speaks to the particular pain of each person. He restores the soul of the singular that then speaks to the wounds of the collective. He saves people, not countries.

Vulnerability Springs Forth Connection

Andrew Lee

December 8, 2020

Church Life, General

That kind of vulnerability touches on our deepest need to be known and accepted by another. It reminds us that we were not meant to be our own salvation. It invites us, for the briefest moment, to let down our defenses that the world has taught up to constantly have up.

Sex Scandals Show Why Evangelicals Need to Recover the Sacrament of Confession

Joseph D'Souza

November 17, 2019

Church Life, Practical Justice, Theology

We cannot continue believing that there is such a thing as personal sin that affects no one else but us.

Finding Lutheran Theology in ‘The Good Place’

Ross Murray

November 13, 2018

General, Practical Justice, Theology

Martin Luther is a lot like the humans in "The Good Place."

Politics as a Substitute for Religion Will Inevitably Let You Down

Tom Krattenmaker

October 20, 2018

Creation & Environment, Immigration & Refugees, Politics

This is no way to live.

Social Justice Is Central to the Gospel

John D. Barry

September 18, 2018

Church Life, Global, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

Label justice how you want, I plan to take action.

The Gospel of Donald Trump

Morf Morford

September 20, 2017

Church Life, Politics, Theology

The darkness that Trump — and we — have cultivated seems to settle between and within each one of us. The only “good news” worthy of the name is from the work of a living God, and we can never afford to forget that.

Salvation for White People

Melissa Browning

August 16, 2017

Church Life, Race, Theology

It’s easy to point fingers at extremists carrying torches in Charlottesville. They need to be saved, we say, and we’re right. But we need to be saved too. And our silence gets in the way of our being saved.