Through the lens of evolutionary Christianity, Sanguin works through moral, spiritual, and scientific issues raised in Mad Men, the writings of Richard Dawkins, tales from the Bible, and other stories that inform our views of the world. Sanguin’s reflections will revitalize your faith and leave you celebrating that you don’t need to sacrifice a rational, evidence-based worldview to be a person of faith in the twenty-first century.

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“If you have ever wondered what evolution has to do with faith, hope, love, and forgiveness, start here. In meditations both bold and beautiful, Bruce Sanguin shows us how new Christian faith can look in the age of science.”

—John F. Haught, senior fellow of science and religion at the Woodstock Theological Center

“By deftly bridging the evidence-based revelation of science with the premodern beauty of scripture, Bruce Sanguin persuades us that evolution and Christianity can be allies in the advance of love.”

—Michael Dowd, author of Thank God for Evolution (endorsed by six Nobel laureate scientists)

“Bruce Sanguin’s Advance of Love is a significant gift to evolutionary spirituality. Packed full of important spiritual truths, The Advance of Love clearly demonstrates that the Bible remains a potent force, even within a ‘post-postmodern’ perspective. Bruce’s sermons are both thoughtful and inspiring, and will serve as a spiritual tonic for all who read them. I highly recommend all of Bruce’s wonderful work.”

—Steve McIntosh, author of Evolution’s Purpose and Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution

“In The Advance of Love, Bruce Sanguin’s challenging reflections burn with evolutionary hope. They are also likely to push the religious com¬fort zone of many. . . Thank goodness!”

—Rex A E Hunt, chair of Common Dreams: A Conference of Religious Progressives in Australia and the South Pacific

“Bruce Sanguin speaks from the heart of evolution expressing through the heart of Christ. Not only does he ‘read the Bible with an evolutionary heart’ in The Advance of Love, he lives it through his words and life. He is a great minister of the conscious evolution of humanity.”

—Barbara Marx Hubbard, president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution

“The Advance of Love is a bright, smart, beautifully done book about Integral Christianity based specifically on the Integral Model. This is exactly the type of thinking that religious and spiritual thought needs to encounter in the coming years in order to become in sync with the modern and postmodern world, and allow Christianity (among others) to continue to thrive in a meaningful fashion. Highly recommended!”

—Ken Wilber, author of Integral Spirituality

Bruce Sanguin is a revolutionary – an ordained minister who is pioneering a new evolutionary interpretation of Christian theology. In The Advance of Love, he creatively integrates the latest insights from cosmology, biology, cultural studies, developmental and integral theory with his own palpable grasp of perennial mystical wisdom. While many acknowledge evolution as an important big idea, Bruce has internalized it. Reading his wonderful prose directly awakens one’s heart, mind, and soul to the liberating truth that we’re all on a journey of infinite becoming that is good beyond measure. This is a truly wonderful gospel for our times. Bravo!

—Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext, author of Evolutionary Enlightenment

Bruce Sanguin is a rational—and trans-rational—evolutionary mystic. And also a regular guy. Meeting his written voice is an authentic encounter with a real person—awake, caring, embodied, inquisitive, and dimensional. He shares his inner life as he works deeply and transparently with the biggest questions and largest contexts of our lives and times, in a way that can bring it all home into our actual lived experience. Encountering him, what’s best in your own being is much less alone—which makes his writings a real gift.

—Terry Patten, co-author of Integral Life Practice, founder of Beyond Awakening