Red Letter Christians Podcast

American Idolatry: How Christian Nationalism Betrays the Gospel and Threatens the Church with author Andrew Whitehead

RLC Book Club with Andrew Whitehead
Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.
Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey andreveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.
Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples – racism and xenophobia – to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.
Andrew Whitehead’s latest book “American Idolatry” published by Brazos Press, encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.
 
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Rethinking Life: Desecrating the Image of God in Others

Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about how the disvaluing of some lives over others is actually a denial of the image of God in others.
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Rethinking Life: How to Be Pro-Life, not Pro-Birth | What Does Love Require of Us?

Shane discusses his book Rethinking Life: Embracing the Sacredness of Every Person and the importance of Christians to be pro-life and what that means "from the womb to the tomb."
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American Exceptionalism: Fighting Against Death Doesn’t Mean We’re Against Justice

Shane discusses the violence and death the US perpetuates under the guise of justice and the Christian's call to be the peacemakers and advocates for life.
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Book Club w/Kat Armas, author of Sacred Belonging: A 40-Day Devotional on the Liberating Heart of Scripture

“An invitation into a deep, expansive, and healing way of encountering Scripture”
In this 40-day devotional, Cuban American writer Kat Armas shows us that reading the Bible with fresh eyes allows us to experience God in new and liberating ways.
Highlighting biblical passages that point toward decolonized themes centered on creation, wisdom, spirit, the body, and the feminine, Armas helps us see how Scripture directs us to live a liberated faith–a faith where we belong to God, the earth, and one another.
“What a delicious book. We are invited to taste and see biblical narratives with a new palate that decenters and decolonizes and disrupts limited ways of knowing.” -Rev. Dr. Jacqui J. Lewis, senior minister, Middle Church; author of Fierce Love
About our Author Guest
Kat Armas (MDiv and MAT, Fuller Theological Seminary), a Cuban American writer and speaker, hosts The Protagonistas podcast, where she highlights stories of everyday women of color, including writers, pastors, church leaders, and theologians. She is the author of Abuelita Faith and has written for Christianity Today, Sojourners, Relevant, Christians for Biblical Equality, Fuller Youth Institute, Fathom magazine, and Missio Alliance. Armas speaks regularly at conferences on race and justice and lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
 
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Jesus Came To Us As A Brown-Skinned Palestinian Jewish Refugee: Shane Discusses Israel and Palestine

 
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Rethinking Life: The Myth of the Hierarchal Value of Human Lives

Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about what it means when we say Black Lives Matter, what the value of life is, who determines it, and examines racism in Christianity.
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Revelation for the Rest of Us: A Prophetic Call to Follow Jesus as a Dissident Disciple with Scot McKnight

See how the Book of Revelation can be read as a book of discipleship, challenging Christ-followers everywhere to live as hopeful agents of resistance and transformation.
The last book of the Bible frustrates and frightens many people with its imagery and apocalyptic tone. Popular interpretations rely on fear and politicization and often lead to pride and alienation of others. Is this really how we were intended to read John’s Revelation?
In Revelation for the Rest of Us, Scot McKnight with Cody Matchett explore the key message of Revelation and how it:
Calls us to be faithful and hopeful witnesses to Jesus.
Stimulates our imagination to see the world through the eyes of God and excite our faith.
Challenges us to stand against the militarism, economic exploitation, oppression, and injustice of worldly authorities.
McKnight addresses the popular misconceptions about the book, explaining what John means in his use of the images of dragons, lambs, and beasts; and how the symbolism of Revelation spoke in the days of Rome and still speaks powerfully to the present day—though not in the way most people think.
You’ll learn to see the Book of Revelation in a fresh and hopeful new way. Drawing from the latest scholarship, the authors present an understanding of Revelation for anyone interested in deepening their personal study of the Bible and strengthening their faith as dissident disciples who can discern the presence of "Babylon" in our world and learn to speak up, speak out, and walk in the way of the Lamb.
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Rethinking Life | We Theologized Hate

Shane Claiborne continues his special series based on his newest book, Rethinking Life. In this episode, he talks about how Evangelical Christianity theologized hate.
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Stop the Execution of Anthony Sanchez in Oklahoma | Guest Reverend Jeff Hood

STOP THE EXECUTION OF ANTHONY SANCHEZ
URGENT: Scheduled execution is September 21, 2023 - RLC fam, please help and visit the website to find out how you can be part of saving Anthony's life.
Anthony Sanchez, a member of the Choctaw Nation, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on September 21, 2023 for the 1996 murder of Juli Busken. The question: IS ANTHONY SANCHEZ INNOCENT? Watch the film: "Evidence Unraveled: The Fight to Free Anthony Sanchez."
 Please sign this petition to add the request to Governor Stitt to grant a 60 day reprieve so that Anthony Sanchez's brand new legal team has time to review newly uncovered evidence in the case.
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