Red Letter Christians

Photo Caption / Credit: Sister Susan Francois hangs a sign on her “Radical Hospitality” tent. (RNS image/Fiona Murphy) Editor’s Note: Previously published on Religion News Service on May 27, 2026. NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — For five days, Delaney Hall, an immigrant detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has been in the news for protests over conditions inside the facility.

What’re you teaching on at church this week?” my dad asked. “We’re starting a series on the Bible and politics,” I answered. “Yikes! Couldn’t do that series at our church.” Maybe you can relate to my dad. I certainly knew what he meant. Just ask yourself: What do you feel when you think about politics? I guarantee those feelings aren’t all positive. Nothing is more likely to ...

On the morning of October 2, 2006, a man walked into a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, sent the boys and adults outside, opened fire on ten little girls, and then killed himself. Five of them died. It was the kind of atrocity that hardens a community for a generation, the kind that ordinarily begins a long winter of bitterness. What happened next is ...

When former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on stage to accept the prestigious Chairman’s Award at the NAACP Image Awards program only a month into the second presidential term of Donald Trump, she reassured the audience that our nation was not only up to the challenge of resistance but had also survived worse: This organization came into being at a moment when our count...

Project Hail Mary is a stunning masterpiece of visual storytelling based on the equally stunning book by Andy Weir. Starring Ryan Gosling as the sarcastic, reluctant hero Ryland Grace, the film tells the story of a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save planet Earth from a sun-eating organism that threatens to extinguish all light and life. Scientists have discovered that the ...