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Your Guide to Christian and Catholic Senior Living

Christian senior living communities offer the same services and amenities as standard senior living options. The difference is that they approach the care they provide through the lens of Christ’s teachings.

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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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Everyone Is Worthy

This upbeat sending-out song or closing hymn is based on words adapted from a famous John Wesley quote.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What Does Marriage Look Like in the Bible?

>Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What Does Marriage Look Like in the Bible?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What’s the Deal with Paul?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What’s the Deal with Paul?

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Father Bernie Lindley: A Valiant Vicar vs Scofflaw City

    Although alliteratively apt, “valiant”, a term most known through an eponymic comic book hero, Prince Valiant, is unlikely often to be paired with “vicar” except perhaps in some future British mystery series. “Father Bernie” Lindley …

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Can Christians Own Guns?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: Can Christians Own Guns?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What’s a Progressive Christian understanding of the Book of Revelation?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Roger Wolsey explores the question: What’s a Progressive Christian understanding of the Book of Revelation?

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Spirituality for the Anthropocene

Global warming is the latest proof that we have crossed a boundary into a truly apocalyptic age, for we now live in a period when anthropogenic change is overpowering nature and life itself.

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The Frans Hals Code

A lot of flawed people are modeling lots of flawed behavior for us every day. We don’t have to become so indignant or angry or even violent after we feel frustrated or offended. We can choose something else.”

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: If the Bible isn’t inerrant, is it inspired?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with board member Rev. Larry J. Morris III: If the Bible isn’t inerrant, is it inspired?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What is the Core Teaching of Christianity?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What is the Core Teaching of Christianity?

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Do All the Good You Can

This upbeat sending-out song or closing hymn is based on words adapted from a famous John Wesley quote.

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Ask A Progressive Christian – Q: Is God Unchanging?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Sharon Jacob – Is God Unchanging?

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#Moonshine Jesus Show – July 14, 2023 Live from Wild Goose Festival

On this special episode of The Moonshine Jesus Show, live from the Wild Goose Festival, where Caleb and Mark are joined by Randy Creath, the creator of our theme song Moon Shine Jesus.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: If the Bible isn’t the inerrant Word of God is it still valuable?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with board member Rev. Larry J. Morris III: If the Bible isn’t the inerrant Word of God is it still valuable?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Can Christians Engage in Sci-Fi, Comics, & Pop Culture?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q: Can Christians Engage in Sci-Fi, Comics, & Pop Culture?

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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: What Do Progressive Christians Believe About Climate Change?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What Do Progressive Christians Believe About Climate Change?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Can you be a Christian agnostic? A Christian atheist?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: Can you be a Christian agnostic? A Christian atheist?

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Guns and Grammar, or How to Read the Second Amendment

By Frank Bergon

FIRST IN 2008 and again in 2022, Supreme Court justices assured us that their close textual reading of the Second Amendment revealed its original meaning: Americans have nearly an unlimited right to carry any kind of gun anywhere they please. The Second Amendment has been debated endlessly.

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What We Do and Say Matters

Toward an Ethics of Consequences

As a nation, we must move toward a place where the ethics of consequences weigh more heavily in our mind, heart, and spirit.  In an ethics of consequences, the rightness and wrongness of our choices matter.  Morality matters. 

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Why Jesus Being Resuscitated Doesn’t Matter, but That We Can All Be Resurrected Does

The four gospels all tell a different story with regard to Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. The facts are all different, but the essence is the same: something divine was present in Jesus.

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Ask A Progressive Christian – Q: Is Jesus the Son of God?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Sharon Jacob – Is Jesus the Son of God?

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The Church Where Love Lives

Amanda wrote this for an inclusion campaign within the United Methodist Church and also did a Pride version of the video.

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At The Time of His Arrest

Cosmic Mystery Series

At the time of his arrest
Jesus prayed for all his friends

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At This Time of Offering

Cosmic Mystery Series

  OFFERING ALL WHO CLAIM TO FOLLOW JESUS     Tune:SALZBURG (Hintz) 77.77D Jakob Hintze 1622-1702 Arranged: Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 CULBACH 77.77 (as 6 verses) Adapted from a chorale in Johann Scheffler’s ‘Heilige Seelenlust’ Breslau, 1657 …

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Can Women Be Pastors?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q: Can Women Be Pastors?

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How Christian Homophobia Fails – The “Three Categories of Laws”

Video Response by Pastor Adam

Whenever a Christian says that there are three categories of laws in the Bible, you should have big red flags because they are likely (mis)using laws as a weapon against vulnerable people.

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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: What do Progressive Christians believe about debt?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: Can you be a Christian agnostic? A Christian atheist?

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Why Should Someone Become A Christian?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with board member Rev. Larry J. Morris III: Why Should Someone Become A Christian?

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Jesus and Wealth – Part Five

Unlike many would-be messiahs who took up arms to evict the Romans, only to be crucified for their efforts, Jesus proposed and lived a path of peace and love.

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Dear Mama God

Combining stunning illustrations with simple yet profound prayers, “Dear Mama God” is the perfect children’s book to introduce children (and their adults) to the heart-expanding practice of referring to the divine in feminine form.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Do Progressive Christians Celebrate the 4th of July?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q: Do Progressive Christians Celebrate the 4th of July?

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Church is the Way We Live

Amanda wrote this piece when churches were closing their doors early on in COVID as a reminder that church is more than a building.

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