LA clergy look to hold city officials responsible for allowing Sean Feucht’s Skid Row event
Los Angeles RNS At a virtual news conference on Wednesday, Rev Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie of the advocacy group Clergy for Black Lives condemned a pair of Los Angeles homeless outreach events on 30th and 31st December by a group of conservative Christians led by musician Sean Feucht. Jn-Marie – who founded The Row, or “The Church […]
New film ‘Chasing the Rain’ wrestles with suffering and other unanswerable questions
RNS It’s not exactly Elf. It isn’t Heaven Is for Real, either. The new film Chasing the Rain may be bookended by Christmas scenes and deal with Christian themes, but theologian and pastor Greg Boyd puts it in the genre of Job, the Biblical book about one man’s unrelenting suffering. Actors Hakeem Kae-Kazim, left, and Matt […]
US gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election
New York City, USAP A leading gun control advocacy group has enlisted more than a dozen religious leaders to boost voter turnout this fall in support of candidates who support measures to prevent gun violence. Everytown for Gun Safety, which expects to spend $US60 million on this year’s elections, is forging its interfaith effort amid […]
THE INTERVIEW: DANIEL DEITRICH AND THE ‘HYMN FOR THE 81%’
In an interview first published on Religion News Service, SHANE CLAIBORNE, activist, author and co-director of Red Letter Christians, speaks with church worship leader Daniel Deitrich, about his controversial new song…
ESSAY: WILL GRACE PREVAIL AS A TENNESSEE EXECUTION LOOMS?
Christian author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE writes about a US death penalty case that’s become very personal to him…
UK: RED LETTER CHRISTIANS GEAR UP FOR BRITISH LAUNCH
ROSIE DAWSON, of Religion News Service, reports from London…
ESSAY: CHRISTIANS CAN’T ALLOW THE US BIBLE BELT TO BE THE “DEATH BELT”
US Christian author and activist SHANE CLAIBORNE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, argues that it’s time for Christians to take a stand against the death penalty…
US: AT “RED LETTER REVIVAL”, LEADERS GIVE VOICE TO EVANGELICALS ON THE MARGINS
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports from a gathering of the ‘Red Letter Christians’ in the US…
ESSAY: TWISTING THE CROSS – THE DEADLY THEOLOGY OF WHITE SUPREMACY
US Christian author SHANE CLAIBORNE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how white supremacist groups corrupt the message of the Gospel…