Red Letter Christians

I didn’t decide to study women’s history until I was already in graduate school. My initial plan was to study religious and intellectual history—the history that really mattered, or so I thought. But my very first semester, one of my professors, Gail Bederman, introduced me to the study of women and gender, and I was hooked. This was the history that really mattered, I decide...

Several years ago, I sat with a volunteer after a difficult disaster response who said something I have never forgotten. “They kept telling us to care for people,” she said quietly. “But when we started breaking down ourselves, the organization mostly wanted us to stay functional.” She did not sound angry when she said it. Just tired. Deeply tired. The kind of exhaustion that...

Christopher Nolan’s long-anticipated adaptation of the Greek epic The Odyssey has finally released to the public, quickly becoming one of his most successful films to date and driving cinemas to add middle-of-the-night showings. There’s been no shortage of things for media to talk about, whether it was Nolan’s technical achievement in producing the first feature-length film s...

Please enjoy this clip from last year’s Peacemaker Summit and be sure to register for the upcoming Peacemaker Summit. Transcript: Shane: And now you’re going to hear from Lisa Sharon Harper who’s written a bunch of books. We’ve got some of them here available. Her latest book, Fortune, and The Very Good Gospels, another book of hers, great theologian, activist. We’ve gotten i...

There are people in almost every community who quietly hold everything together. They organize meals after funerals. They answer late-night phone calls. They stay calm in hospital rooms. They volunteer for difficult assignments nobody else wants. They show up after tornadoes, fires, floods, and deaths. They keep churches functioning, families stable, organizations moving…