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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Who Are Your Favorite Spiritual Authors?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with board member Rev. Larry J. Morris III: Who Are Your Favorite Spiritual Authors?

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God Speaks Today

  Lead vocals by Rev. Kate Penney Howard. Other vocals, instruments, and engineering by Ken Janzen. New hymn text, set to the tune of Ar Hyd Y Nos; a reflection on how the sacred works in the …

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: How Do We Love Those Who Have Wronged Us?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Darrell Goodwin Q: How Do We Love Those Who Have Wronged Us?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Do Women Need to Submit to Men’s Authority?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q:Do Women Need to Submit to Men’s Authority?

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#Moonshine Jesus Show – August 21, 2023

Join Caleb and Mark for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of what James Gun is calling the first character to solidly exist in the DCU reboot, “Blue Beetle.”

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What do Progressive Christians think about reincarnation?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What do Progressive Christians think about reincarnation?

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Sunday Musings with Diana Butler Bass – The Feast of the Transfiguration

  Too much of politics caters to our craving miracles; faith is often about finding some magical safe place. But mystical experiences are about real life. In the season of Ordinary Time, a most extraordinary event breaks …

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Film: On Compassion

The question “What’s it like to be you?” is a powerful starting point for building bridges between people.

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Jesus in Eden

And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from the heavens said, “This is my Son, the Beloved,[e] with whom I am well pleased.”

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Why is there Evil in the World?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Roger Wolsey explores the question: Why is there Evil in the World?

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God is Known: An Evolution Sunday/Process Theology Hymn

This was written for an Evolution Sunday service and incorporates ideas from process theology.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Was Jesus’ Mission?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Darrell Goodwin Q: What Was Jesus’ Mission?

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#Moonshine Jesus Show – August 14, 2023

Join Mark and Caleb for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of Season 2 on “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”

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God Wants Us to Know

God wants us to know where we live,
to open our senses to now
and this and here,
because wherever we are is God.

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Jim Burklo Video at Wild Goose Festival 2023

Watch Jim Burklo talk about his history with Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism and how he changed over the years to Progressive Christianity.

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Themi – Apostle To The Hungry

A rock star, atheist, Marxist, world-class theologian, African missionary, and a Greek Orthodox Bishop all in one lifetime? Bishop Themi is a beacon of hope and inspiration to millions of Christians.

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The NAACP’s acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community

Today, the NAACP has an LGBTQIA Committee Chairperson, Demar Roberts from S. C., who works to protect and advance the rights of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Doubt is our friend – Progressive Christianity

It can be scary to have doubts because we imagine that we are moving away from God. In reality, we are only moving away from our comfortable and established ideas about God.

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Doing Christianity

How religion is about what you do, not what you believe

In Doing Christianity Paul Higginson encourages us, in nine simple steps, to look afresh at the words of Jesus in the Gospel. Jargon-free and full of practical steps you can apply each day, Doing Christianity can help to refresh your faith, deepen your relationships and give you a new sense of hope for the future of the Christian Gospel.

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Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm

The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy

Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm is a trustworthy guide into the church’s troubled history. It’s also a present-day call to action that finds inspiration in those Methodists who stood against the tide and those guiding the church today toward the horizon of racial justice.

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From Our Abundance We Give: a stewardship hymn

Swing version of my stewardship hymn From Our Abundance We Give. Appropriate for inclusive Christian, Unitarian Universalist, and other congregations.

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#Moonshine Jesus Show – August 7, 2023

Join Caleb and Mark for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ 7th feature length film: “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.”

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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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A Spiritual Thought Experiment: Saving Jesus from God’s Plan

Part Two

The four searchers now realized that there were two Jesus stories, one pervasive across the Christian churches, the other hidden in the background.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What do Progressive Christians make of the resurrection?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What do Progressive Christians make of the resurrection?

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Ron DeSantis and the State Where Education Goes To Die

The context for this article is the proposed new curriculum for the instruction of students on African American history.  Outrage over the proposal is mounting every day. 

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My Long Farewell to Traditional Religion (and What Remains)

If I had to summarize my religious journey with one Bible verse, I would choose Matthew 28:17, “When they (the early disciples) saw him (the risen Christ), they worshiped him; but some doubted” (NIV).

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Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Church

New discoveries leading to new products are coming at a rapid rate of speed. This new approach to processing and integrating data is becoming interwoven into all aspects of life.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is God Male or Female?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q:Is God Male or Female?

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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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#Moonshine Jesus Show – July 31, 2023

Join Mark and Caleb for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of the Marvel’s “Secret Invasion.”

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Joy and the excavation of suffering

At church inside the women’s prison last Sunday, Pastor Samm raised her hands after communion and said, receive this blessing. Immediately a roar of feedback from the mics and monitors behind her angrily filled the room.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What do Progressive Christians Think about Divorce?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What do Progressive Christians Think about Divorce?

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A Spiritual Thought Experiment: Saving Jesus from God’s Plan

Part One

How did the wealthy accrue the power to change the thinking of the church about who Jesus was and what he did? That, our four researchers discovered, is -up to now- a mystery hidden in history.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Which version of the Bible is best for Progressive Christians?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Roger Wolsey explores the question: Which version of the Bible is best for Progressive Christians?

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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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