Red Letter Christians

For nearly 30 years, The Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education has been committed to what God is doing through Christian people in inner-city America and around the world. Under the leadership of Dr. Tony Campolo, EAPE has developed and nurtured elementary and secondary schools, universities, adult and child literacy centers, tutoring programs, orphanages, AIDS hospices, urban youth ministries, summer camps, and long-term Christian service programs in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Africa, Canada and throughout the USA. Our goal is to help build the Kingdom of God by combining evangelism and social justice in the name of Jesus.

In this week's Church Times is an interview given during a recent visit to the UK:

"Some of us in the US have felt the need to come up with a new name for Evangelicals as it has become synonymous with being ant-gay, anti-women, and pro-war. As Red Letter Christians, we have a very high view of scripture, but are concerned about action for the poor rather than being hijacked by these other issues.

Red Letter Christians comes from versions of the Bible where the words of Jesus are in red. We are radically committed to the teachings of Jesus. There are some 2000 verses of scripture about the poor and the needy.

In the US we have the rebirth of extreme fundamentalism with 1500 Christian radio stations preaching a religious-Right ideology. As Red Letter Christians, we hold to a historical belief in the Church, but have a progressive view of the world."