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    • Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin
    • Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) from the South. He currently serves at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Mark also serves as the President and Co-Executive Director of ProgressiveChristianity.org. He is a co-founder of The Christian Left. His blog, has been named as one of the “Top Ten Christian Blogs.” Mark received The Associated Church Press’ Award of Excellence in 2012. Follow Mark on Facebook and Twitter @marksandlin.

Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is God Unchangeable?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Is God Unchangeable?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Bibles are the most accurate?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: What Bibles are the most accurate?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Are Progressive Christians Still Christians?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q:Are Progressive Christians Still Christians?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Do Progressive Christians Think About Abortion?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: What Do Progressive Christians Think About Abortion?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Did Jesus Have to Die?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Did Jesus Have to Die?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Should Your Political Views Influence Your Theology or Vice Versa?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q:Should Your Political Views Influence Your Theology or Vice Versa?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Did Jesus Die For Our Sins?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Did Jesus Die For Our Sins?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Do Christians Have To Deny Science?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Do Christians Have To Deny Science?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is the Bible the Inerrant Word of God?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Is the Bible the Inerrant Word of God?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Do You Think of the Trinity?

Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Do You Think of the Trinity?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is Suffering Redemptive?

Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is Suffering Redemptive?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Can You Be a Gay Christian?

Ask a Progressive Christian – Can You Be a Gay Christian?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is the Rapture Real?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Is the Rapture Real?

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Sermon: If You Have Ears, Hear!

Matthew 13:1-23 Jesus’ Parable The Sower and the Seed

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Happiness via Compassion and Connectedness

Watch Rev. Mark Sandlin, Presbyterian Church of the Covenant on his November 13, 2022, sermon on Happiness via Compassion and Connectedness.

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Progressive Prayers for Progressive People

This collection of prayers comes from a decidedly progressive Christian point of view. They are more about changing us and changing the world than about changing God’s mind and getting a particular set of actions from God.

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“Anti-Choice is Anti-Christian”

Join Rev. Mark Sandlin, Presbyterian Church of the Covenant for his June 26, 2022 sermon on Abortion Rights.

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What does it mean when people say that God is within me?

Q&A with Rev. Mark Sandlin

I was brought up to understand that we meet God in church. What is it supposed to mean when people say that God is within me? I don’t think I’ve found that to be true.

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Jesus, Political Martyr

Sermon on April 10, 2022

Sermon by: Rev. Mark Sandlin
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant

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A Lot of Christianity Has It Wrong

A lot of Christianity
has it wrong. 
We are not broken. 

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Thanksgiving and the Rittenhouse Reality

Sermon: Rev. Mark Sandlin
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant – www.athinkingchurch.org
Music: Bruce Piephoff

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The Bible and Transgender

My oldest child has recently come out as transgender. Not surprisingly, many Christian friends are now pointing to the bible saying that she is a sinner and that God ‘condemns’ her. Does the Bible and God really say that?

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Sermon Video: Versus vs Verses

July 11, 2021 Sermon by Rev. Mark Sandlin
Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
Greensboro, NC
 

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The Dance of Grace

Sermon by Rev. Mark Sandlin, on June 13, 2021

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What is Grace?

What is the grace referred to in the 5th point of Progressive Christianity, which says that Progressive Christians “Find grace in the search for understanding and believe there is more value in questioning with an open mind and open heart, than in absolutes or dogma.

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An Open Mind is NOT the ‘Devil’s Playground

Rev. Mark Sandlin is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) from the South. He currently serves at Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. Mark also serves as the President and Co-executive Director of ProgressiveChristianity.org.

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Why don’t churches do more to change things?

“I stopped going to church because it just seems to be the same thing all the time. Same sermons, same actions, same results. I’m not sure we were actually changing anything. We helped the poor, but they always came back still needing help. Why don’t churches do more to change things?”

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Resistance Fatigue

I’m a politically blue kind of guy living in a very red state. My religious convictions tell me that I have to try to work at getting laws that treat everyone with love. I’ve always tried, but the last few years it’s been crazy hard and I’m wearing out. Any suggestions?

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The Zen of Kindness

When we are mindful, we will not only see the true outcomes and impact of behavior that is not kind compared to behavior that is kind, but that knowledge will be present with us in each moment guiding our every action.

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Does Jesus’ Skin Color Matter?

It is unnecessary for anybody to throw stones because of anybody’s race or ethnicity. It repulses me and is plain not Jesus-like. It is prideful and hateful.

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Sawubona

I have to deduce that even though it all started with the big bang, expanded, and distributed its matter across the universe, it also exists as a single unified and inseparable whole. We are all star-stuff. We are all inextricably connected. The Divine in me can see the Divine in you. When I see you, I see me.

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The Spiritual Discipline of “Resist”

Finding peace through social justice.

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Creating Justice (A Prayer)

It is easy to get so caught upin the business and troublesof our own lives,

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Leading a more simple life

Mark, I’ve been following you for awhile and I do appreciate some of the things you say, but what’s the deal with this new agey movement for “simplicity”?

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Hate Will Never Be Conquered By Anger

Ignorance will never be defeated with judgment.

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