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Where Love Ends (And the Fight for Disability Rights)

Editor’s Note: This is an anonymously written essay taken from Keeping the Faith: Reflections on Politics and Christianity in the Era of Trump and Beyond. Each Friday between now and Election Day 2020, we will be sharing new excerpts from this anthology of dissent.  Disciples of Jesus know that God persistently asks us to consider what […]
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Faith Is on the Ballot: A Call for the Latino Vote

The faith-based choice for president is the one who extends empathy to everyone across our states.  Empathy, after all, is the value that Jesus lived and breathed. He saw throngs of people in his travels and “had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless.” He said nations will be judged on how they […]
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  1. General Christian

Love for Enemies

Editor’s note: Singer/Songwriter and participant of the Red Letter Christians Artists and Musicians Collective, Paul Demer, recently released a new congregational worship song entitled “Love for Enemies.” Read about it and watch the lyric video below! I originally wrote “Love For Enemies” for New Braunfels Presbyterian Church (USA) in the Texas Hill Country. I was […]
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Keeping the Faith: A Call to Prophetic Resistance

“The task of prophetic ministry is to nurture, nourish, and evoke a consciousness and perception alternative to the consciousness and perception of the dominant culture around us.” —Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination    I was in a car traveling to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon when the presidential victory of Donald Trump was announced on […]
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Why “All Letters Matter” isn’t a Good Response to Red Letter Christians

“All lives don’t matter!” shouted the speaker at the Black Lives Matter protest. I felt my body tense. “Until,” continued the speaker after a pause, “black lives matter!”  What a rhetorical coup. By saying it that way the speaker reminded us that we are in a story. We are in a wider context. Black lives […]
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  1. General Christian

New Name, Same Mission

Editor’s Note: The following is the official announcement shared by executive director Nikki Toyama-Szeto of the newly renamed Christians for Social Action. Find out more information at Christiansforsocialaction.org .   As of September 15, 2020 Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA) has changed their name to Christians for Social Action instead. For a season, it would suffice […]
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