Trump – Page 3 – Red Letter Christians

Communities of Moral Deliberation

September 23, 2020

Should we emphasize personal rights over the responsibilities we owe each another? Should we emphasize what the law permits over what the Gospel demands? Of course not, yet these attitudes are all too common among white evangelicals.

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.

2020 is the Year of Religious Women Voters

Jennifer Butler

September 10, 2020

General, Politics, Women

We’re just 8 Sundays away from the 2020 election. Between now and then, a moral reckoning among women of faith will determine the future of this nation and, I dare say, the planet.

For Christians, Is There ‘A Time to Hate?’

Craig M. Watts

August 13, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

Hate is not found in any list of virtues. Yet, interestingly enough, we find scripture saying, “There is…a time to love, and a time to hate” (Ecclesiastes 3:8)

Imagining a Christian Resistance

Bjorn Philip Beer

August 4, 2020

General, Politics, Practical Justice

I became, in a way, an amateur scholar of fascist movements as I studied my family members involvement. What side would I be on? I always asked myself.

A World of Lies When the Truth Sets Us Free

Craig M. Watts

July 27, 2020

Politics, Practical Justice, Theology

A society will crumble if lying is not looked down upon and if people can’t be counted on to tell the truth the vast majority of the time.

Nationalism, Purity Culture, and Hijacked Christianity

RLC Editor

July 24, 2020

Christian Nationalism, Church Life, Politics, Women

Ramsey says she works “solely with evangelicals to shed light on how Christianity has been hijacked by nationalism and white supremacy long before Trump.”

Redeeming America After Trump

Donald Heinz

July 9, 2020

General, Politics, Revival

New Testament Christianity produces an excess of grace and gratitude and empathy, but religious nationalists do not demand radical change of the American way.