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A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World

We are living in a world divided. Race and ethnicity, caste and color, gender and sexuality, class and education, religion and political party have all become demographic labels that reduce our differences to simplistic categories in which “we” are vehemently against “them.”

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It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors

Our Politics Made Easy & Ready For Action

It does not matter how Progressive or Lefty you are. One can have a very enjoyable conversation with the most Right-Wing of relatives or friends. It is all about the approach.

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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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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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#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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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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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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#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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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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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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#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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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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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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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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#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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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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