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It’s vitally important to challenge views of God and religion that are leading to so much division and violence in today’s world. This demands courage and creativity. ~ Joanna Manning

“The truth of the matter is that the Christian movement, or what we now call the church, was always progressive. Jesus and his followers were change agents and that frankly, is what got them all into trouble.” ~ Fred Plumer

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ~ Søren Kierkegaard

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life. ~Eckhart Tolle

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. ~ C.G. Jung

Progressive Christianity cannot be nailed down to one thing. It lives in flux. It always will because that is its nature. It always will because it must.

Once an idea has been embraced by the larger community, it settles into the realm of the status quo. No longer representing cutting edge thought about the particular issue it addressed, it becomes accepted as the norm.

Progressive thinking moves an individual or community to a new understanding of the world in which they live, work, and play. It threatens ideas that have been traditionally held by exposing them to ideas based on new experience or understanding.

As we start this New Year we acknowledge the potential for new beginnings – the field of unlimited possibilities.

Whether you are affiliated with one of the world’s religions or are more comfortable with a free-floating spirituality, whether you are conservative or liberal, experienced or just beginning, there is room for you on the common ground of practice. A chief characteristic of the path of practice is its inclusivity. Everyone belongs.

Religion is no more –
Fragmenting humankind
With doctrine, creed
And narrowness of heart.

All are invited to the communion table were we celebrate Jesus’ understanding of life and death.

High steppin’ camels one by one
See the wise men boogaloo
Down to Bethlehem to have some fun

Follow a star that’s twinkling with courage,
blazing with possibility
to the space, the essence that is God.

By faith, Mary let go of fear, and engendered a mothering God

The last candle burns
The waiting’s almost over
Soon we’ll hear a baby crying
and we’ll know that God is no mere idea