family – Red Letter Christians

Radical Forgiveness and Ableism in the Church

February 25, 2022

Church Life, Family and Parenting, Practical Justice

While the disability experience is not a monolith, by & large caregivers and disabled people are familiar with the feeling of being excluded from environments that seemingly welcome their presence but not their belonging. And I have to wonder if our churches are not fully FOR the least among them first, then who are they really for?

An Excerpt From Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World – And How to Repair It All

Lisa Sharon Harper

February 7, 2022

Art, Books, Church Life, Race, Women

Standing before the court, eighteen-year-old Fortune was born free and should have remained free according to Lord Baltimore’s 1681 legal turnabout. But of course the application of law is different from the law itself.

This Book Will Be Banned

Jemar Tisby

January 31, 2022

Books, Family and Parenting, Politics, Practical Justice, Race

The manufactured hysteria about CRT and the 1619 Project puts any book that gives an honest accounting of racism at risk.

Is Pro-Life Evangelicalism Killing Adoptees?

Sara Easterly

December 6, 2021

Church Life, Family and Parenting, Theology

Adoptive parents can build platforms and careers off adoption, but adoptees who circumvent the system, usually offering their emotional labor at no cost, receive backlash.