Struggle – Red Letter Christians

Who Has Your Trousers? Keeping Company in the Darkness

January 12, 2021

Books, Church Life, Family and Parenting

I’ve spent time over the last few years researching people in church history who struggled with depression, but intertwined with their stories are those of their friends and family members who kept company with them in the dark.

Finding Freedom & Salvation in a Weary World

Angela Denker

January 14, 2020

Creation & Environment, Family and Parenting, Global, Immigration & Refugees, Peace & Nonviolence, Politics, Race

We cannot comprehend one another's lives or struggles, or diminish others' struggles in the face of our own.

How to Talk More About Sin

Eric Minton

January 29, 2019

Family and Parenting, General

What if we’ve been misunderstanding the point of sin?

Battle Lines Form over Social Justice: Is It Gospel or Heresy?

Jemar Tisby

September 7, 2018

Church Life, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

Who gets to decide which cultures and which assumptions are closer to biblical truth?

As We Enter Black History Month, ‘Do Not De-Radicalize King’

Otis Moss III

January 31, 2018

Immigration & Refugees, Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

In times such as this, we need not celebration and commemoration of men and women who lived valiantly, but we need to be disturbed and re-energized; not by the “safe” King, created by certain persons to tone down his radical legacy, but we need the radical King, the radical, Hamer, and the radical Rustin.

Being Poor Is A Lot of Work

Bart Campolo

July 14, 2011

General

Until very recently, I had no idea how hard it is for some of our friends just to find somewhere to lay themselves down to sleep at night. I knew that inner-city families moved around a lot, but I didn’t r...

Faith Ignites Struggle for Justice, Now as in Past

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

February 11, 2011

General

In public schools and community centers across the United States, Black History Month means that the busts of presidents on January’s bulletin boards have been replaced by images of Frederick Douglass and Ha...