Forgiveness – Red Letter Christians

An Unforgiving Christian, excerpt from “Forgiveness after Trauma”

March 5, 2024

Books, General, Interfaith, Peace & Nonviolence, Revival, Theology, Women

The summer I turned nineteen, I felt a need to reckon with someone who had both harmed me deeply and done much good in my life. I decided to set new boundaries with this person. Predictably, when I set these ne...

Sharletta Evans: Pioneer of Restorative Justice (Excerpt from Beating Guns)

Shane Claiborne

June 23, 2022

Gun Violence

Sharletta’s story of forgiveness and extensive work to offer the opportunity for restitution and restoration for offenders is awe-inspiring. It’s an example of what it looks like to no longer learn how to make war. It’s what we’re called to do when we choose to carry a plow instead of a gun.

Slow To Speak and Quick To Listen (An Excerpt From The Race-Wise Family)

Helen Lee and Michelle Reyes

May 19, 2022

Politics, Practical Justice, Race, Theology

"When we hold the Bible in one hand and the news in the other, our posture as a race-wise family will be to listen often and well, and to be slow to speak. We will challenge ourselves to hear all the voices in a news story and then respond in ways that are honoring and loving toward those who have been victimized or who are struggling."

The Feasts of God’s Calendar

Kevin "KB" Burns

April 17, 2022

Death Penalty, Theology

We know through revelation of the scripture that blood that was on the doorpost was foreshadowing-- was symbolic of the Blood of Jesus that was to deliver us from sin and from the depths of the wages of sin, which is death.

Come to Me All You Who are Angry

Esther Sparks

May 10, 2021

Church Life, General, Theology

Sketch drawn from a photograph in the Associated Press. A woman in the crowd lowers her mask to wail when she hears the grand jury decision regarding the death of Breonna Taylor.

Maewyn Succat and the Radical Forgiveness of Saint Patrick

Stephen Carey

March 17, 2021

Church Life, Peace & Nonviolence, Practical Justice

Are you angry? Are you resentful and bitter over the past? Are there those whom you cannot or will not forgive? Maewyn Succat would tell us that with God's help, there is a Saint Patrick within, waiting to be released.

Fire in the Sky: On Divisions and Forgiveness

Rachel Ophoff

September 21, 2020

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Politics

Our country is at the boiling point in the divide between these two people groups. We listen to different news sources and make up our minds accordingly. There is a great evil that perpetrates false conspiracy theories with the intent to divide us.