Articles
The New Atheists Are God's Prophets
The New Atheists are to be commended for demanding that humanity update our maps of reality and that we begin to value and actually use our modern and much enhanced capacities to discern right relationship and to devise age-appropriate ways...
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The Evolutionary Evangelist
Coming into right relationship with reality is the great challenge of our time because it encompasses all of humanity’s challenges. Traditionally, maps of reality—that is, maps of how things are and which things matter—were...
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The Lord's Prayer for Daily Life (Introduction)
The introduction to the book The Living Hour: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life (with New Testament Gospels). A faith book especially suited for Progressive Christianity workshops, Bible Study Groups, Unitarian Christians, and all who...
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Books
Uncommon Gratitude Alleluia For All That is
By
Sister Joan Chittister,
Rowan Williams
'This book... is an alleluia view of every present moment, a view that welcomes its complexity and subjects it to the more lasting view, the long view, of life. To that, alleluia (p. x1).'?...
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Covenant Economics: A Biblical Vision of Justice for All
Richard A. Horsley, Covenant Economics: A Biblical Vision of Justice for All (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009), Pp. xxi + 193. Paper, $24.95. Review by Kirk Bane In this insightful new study, Dr. Horsley contends that God intensely...
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Sound Mapping the New Testament
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Margaret Ellen Lee,
Bernard Brandon Scott
In the Hellenistic world, writings were read aloud, heard and remembered. But modern exegesis assumes a silent text. The disjuncture between ancient......
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Educational Materials
Well-Fed Spirit Website
A free Website providing diverse spiritual-practice and wellness resources for Christians in a progressive and affirming manner....
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Facing Our Environmental Crisis Alone
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David Anderson
Prominent scientists throughout the world are now telling us that before the end of the present century we may be facing a sudden and dramatic reversal in planetary sustainability. They point to a succession of dangerous environmental “tipping...
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Servant or Sucker? Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor, A DVD
No one wants to be a sucker in these situations but at the same time Jesus’ call to help the poor echoes in our hearts and minds. Servant or Sucker? Wise and Compassionate Ways to Help the Poor helps viewers discern appropriate, Christ-centered...
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Sermons
Interfaith or Innerfaith?
By
Jim Burklo
What does “interfaith dialogue” mean among the rapidly increasing number of people who have no formal faith affiliation at all? SBNR – Spiritual But Not Religious – is clearly a category that is gaining ground...
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The Path to the New Creation (2 Cor. 5:14-21): An Easter Sermon
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Chuck Queen
The power of the new creation, the power of forgiveness and restoring love, the power to redeem and atone for all the evil that is at work in our lives and in our world is available to us if we will by faith claim it and live it. ...
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A Progressive Easter Sermon
The following is a message by Rev. Roger Wolsey of Wesley Chapel in Boulder, CO is inspired by the resurrection stories in Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John; the book The Powers that Be by Walter Wink; and the book The Last Week by...
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Worship Materials
The Lord's Prayer: An Interpretation
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Jim Burklo
Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming. May your powerful presence become obvious not only in the undeniable glory...
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If Darwin Prayed- Poems
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Bruce Sanguin
Poems from an upcoming book by Bruce Sanguin. Author of Emerging Church and Darwin, Divinity, and The Dance of the Cosmos....
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Mary and James Meet Joseph of Arimathea- A Drama
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Roger Sperling
A Drama for Good Friday (Act II)*After the crucifixion of Jesus, Mary, his mother, and James, his brother, go in search of the tomb to see where they have laid him. They encounter Joseph under the now empty cross and ask if he knows where...
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