Red Letter Christians

I still remember what it felt like to dread walking into school. When I was in the ninth grade, three students bullied and taunted me about my weight. The taunting became so relentless that I began skipping school, especially the class where I would see those three students. My absences almost caused me to fail the ninth grade. At fourteen years old, I did not have the langua...

The Korean War was a proxy war enacted on the Korean Peninsula by neighbouring great powers. Millions of people were butchered over those three brutal years, and the former national territory was utterly destroyed. – Han Kang (Oct 7, 2017) Relatively few understand today that what we term ‘The Korean War’ – was among the most brutal and savage wars in the history of humanity;...

My understanding of America did not begin in a classroom. It began in Tuskegee, Alabama, a place where the stories of struggle, resilience, faith, and possibility seemed to rise from the red clay. Growing up in Tuskegee meant living in the shadow and the light of people who believed education could liberate, communities could transform themselves, and ordinary people could be...

Editor’s Note: Previously published on Religion News Service on July 2, 2026. WASHINGTON (RNS) — In her first years attending a fast marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that resumed the modern-day death penalty in the United States, SueZann Bosler was still on medication to treat the effects of being stabbed in the head by the same man who murdered her fathe...

To the Church of White Evangelicals in the United States of America: You have created a large network of worship and praise. But whom do you worship and whom do you praise? Over your pulpit, there is a large empty cross–a symbol of my resurrection. But yours is empty for another reason: You have taken me down from the cross and buried me in a shroud of two flags with differen...