Red Letter Christians's articles General Christian Where Do We Go from Here? “Where do we go from here, chaos or community?” Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. asked this in his last book before he was killed for his work to end segregation and call for peace during the Vietnam war. The breach of the US Capitol and attempt to overturn our election requires us to ask the same […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Revolutionary Love Is The Way To Racial Healing What we witnessed on January 6, 2021—a live-action coup to overthrow our government where thousands of individuals ran through the Capitol with abandon, ransacked governmental offices, and took photos with law enforcement—was always just beneath the surface of our body politic. That the vast majority of these individuals were white and sent to the Capitol […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Insisting on Healing May be the Death of Us You go to the hospital for a routine surgery. Maybe having your gallbladder or appendix removed. Your doctors open you up and see that you have a giant tumor: cancerous, malignant, fatal if not aggressively fought. They sew you back up and tell you the news. “When can you do surgery? Can you remove the […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian This May Not be a Time for an Altar Call to Unity The manifesto of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol was written on the flags: “JESUS IS MY SAVIOR, TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT.” Trump flags and Jesus flags waved together commingled with nazi imagery, paramilitary gear, and confederate flags. Life-size homemade crosses marched alongside noose scaffolding platforms. These symbols of white supremacy, patriarchy, and religious […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian What is In Your House? We are living in uncertain and unprecedented times. Following the insurrectionist violence at the U.S. Capitol, many of us are wondering how the nation has lapsed into such utter chaos. While we knew stoking the flames of hatred would cause irreparable harm, watching on our TV and computer screens as an angry, mostly white mob […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Why I Cannot Stay: A Letter to My Church I sat in your pews every Sunday. I shook your hands during greeting time, socialized in your hallways after the service, attended your small groups and Bible studies. Every week, I took communion with you. I held in my hands the body of Jesus, broken. I brought to my lips the cup, his life, given […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian ‘Not Real Christians’: Communal Confession for a Faith Divided On January 6, 2021, an angry mob of white nationalists, some armed with guns, stormed the Capitol and rioted inside. Several Christians were in this group, seen waving flags and banners that proclaimed “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my president.” There is also a video that has gone viral of a woman singing a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Who Has Your Trousers? Keeping Company in the Darkness I heard a friend tell a story once about a man at his church who struggled with mental illness. On his bad days, this man was known for leaving his house and arriving at church gatherings without his pants. I can imagine the stares on the sidewalk or on the public transit. I can imagine […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian The Cost of Believing Liars Believing liars has consequences. This was abundantly clear on January 6. Tens of thousands of people who believed Trump’s lie that he won the presidential election but was “robbed” of the victory through massive voter fraud converged on Washington, D.C. to “stop the steal.” Those who trusted the man who has proven himself to be […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have? [CW: Rape, abuse, torture] This week, after people died at the U.S. Capitol, in the middle of a pandemic and with the promise of new impeachment hearings, President Trump is planning to execute three more people. Continuing a killing spree that began in 2020 after 17 years without a federal execution, Trump will have carried […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Capitol Storm: What Should Come as No Surprise I started out my Wednesday morning listening to election results trickle in from Georgia and had hope, that flighty bird who has been so hard to spot over the past year. By the end of the day, I was sitting in silence watching a mob of white supremacists storm the Capitol building, overcome by a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked General Christian Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19 Names of individuals have been changed for their privacy. I urged Avery to gather his belongings—a tent, a gym bag of clothes, and disintegrating grocery bags—as thirty-one police vehicles sped by with a dozen officers in full riot gear hanging off the side. The Center, a non-profit homeless services hub where I work, sits a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 6, 2021January 7, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked Loading Load more
General Christian Where Do We Go from Here? “Where do we go from here, chaos or community?” Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. asked this in his last book before he was killed for his work to end segregation and call for peace during the Vietnam war. The breach of the US Capitol and attempt to overturn our election requires us to ask the same […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Revolutionary Love Is The Way To Racial Healing What we witnessed on January 6, 2021—a live-action coup to overthrow our government where thousands of individuals ran through the Capitol with abandon, ransacked governmental offices, and took photos with law enforcement—was always just beneath the surface of our body politic. That the vast majority of these individuals were white and sent to the Capitol […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Insisting on Healing May be the Death of Us You go to the hospital for a routine surgery. Maybe having your gallbladder or appendix removed. Your doctors open you up and see that you have a giant tumor: cancerous, malignant, fatal if not aggressively fought. They sew you back up and tell you the news. “When can you do surgery? Can you remove the […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian This May Not be a Time for an Altar Call to Unity The manifesto of the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol was written on the flags: “JESUS IS MY SAVIOR, TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT.” Trump flags and Jesus flags waved together commingled with nazi imagery, paramilitary gear, and confederate flags. Life-size homemade crosses marched alongside noose scaffolding platforms. These symbols of white supremacy, patriarchy, and religious […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian What is In Your House? We are living in uncertain and unprecedented times. Following the insurrectionist violence at the U.S. Capitol, many of us are wondering how the nation has lapsed into such utter chaos. While we knew stoking the flames of hatred would cause irreparable harm, watching on our TV and computer screens as an angry, mostly white mob […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Why I Cannot Stay: A Letter to My Church I sat in your pews every Sunday. I shook your hands during greeting time, socialized in your hallways after the service, attended your small groups and Bible studies. Every week, I took communion with you. I held in my hands the body of Jesus, broken. I brought to my lips the cup, his life, given […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian ‘Not Real Christians’: Communal Confession for a Faith Divided On January 6, 2021, an angry mob of white nationalists, some armed with guns, stormed the Capitol and rioted inside. Several Christians were in this group, seen waving flags and banners that proclaimed “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my president.” There is also a video that has gone viral of a woman singing a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Who Has Your Trousers? Keeping Company in the Darkness I heard a friend tell a story once about a man at his church who struggled with mental illness. On his bad days, this man was known for leaving his house and arriving at church gatherings without his pants. I can imagine the stares on the sidewalk or on the public transit. I can imagine […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian The Cost of Believing Liars Believing liars has consequences. This was abundantly clear on January 6. Tens of thousands of people who believed Trump’s lie that he won the presidential election but was “robbed” of the victory through massive voter fraud converged on Washington, D.C. to “stop the steal.” Those who trusted the man who has proven himself to be […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Is Killing Lisa Montgomery the Best Version of Justice We Have? [CW: Rape, abuse, torture] This week, after people died at the U.S. Capitol, in the middle of a pandemic and with the promise of new impeachment hearings, President Trump is planning to execute three more people. Continuing a killing spree that began in 2020 after 17 years without a federal execution, Trump will have carried […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Capitol Storm: What Should Come as No Surprise I started out my Wednesday morning listening to election results trickle in from Georgia and had hope, that flighty bird who has been so hard to spot over the past year. By the end of the day, I was sitting in silence watching a mob of white supremacists storm the Capitol building, overcome by a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Hope, Homelessness, and COVID-19 Names of individuals have been changed for their privacy. I urged Avery to gather his belongings—a tent, a gym bag of clothes, and disintegrating grocery bags—as thirty-one police vehicles sped by with a dozen officers in full riot gear hanging off the side. The Center, a non-profit homeless services hub where I work, sits a […] Written by Red Letter Christians January 6, 2021January 7, 2021 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
