Articles
Four Historic Intellectual and Cultural Sensibilities- Negotiating the Religious, Secular, Eclectic and Integral Perspectives
By: Rich Lang. It seems to me that one might find folks who have a “dialectical relationship” with any two, three or four of these historical sensibilities and value orientations within progressive Christianity. I’m...
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Two Kinds of Evangelism
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Chuck Queen
There are two vastly different Christian approaches to evangelism being practiced today. One can be described as inclusive and invitational; the other is dualistic and confrontational....
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Not the Easy Way
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Fred Plumer
The ultimate problem for most of the early theologians was their need to identify Jesus as a divine messiah sent by an intervening God to save humanity from humanity’s God-given nature. Rather than accepting Jesus as a profound...
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Books
Praying A New Story
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Michael Morwood
In this invigorating, poetic and imaginative paperback, Morwood shares prayers that can be used in small groups that reflect a fresh and bold reframing of Christian views of God, the universe, Jesus, the Spirit, and holidays such as Christmas,...
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Children Praying a New Story- A Resource for Parents, Grandparents, and Teachers
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Michael Morwood
Morwood's books have been especially insightful and helpful to adults struggling with prayer and ritual while radically reconstructing their Christian faith. This book is for adult Christians engaged in this shift, now asking the vital...
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Lots of Love
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Gary A. Wilburn
Gary's third and final book - Lots Of Love - is an urgent and loving testimonial to the simple but fundamental building blocks of our human and spiritual DNA - that "love is the beginning and the end of our journey." Each day physical life...
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Educational Materials
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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First Light: Jesus and the Kingdom
Featuring John Dominic Crossan and Marcus Borg Why did Jesus happen when he happened? Why the confluence of the Baptism movement of John and the Kingdom movement of Jesus? Why the tiny villages around the Lake? Why the confrontations...
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Integral Life Presents: The Future of Christianity. Featuring Ken Wilber and Father Thomas Keating
Here is an exciting new resource for churches and individuals that are trying to sort out where they are in relationship to their understanding of the Christian faith in a post-modern world....
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Sermons
What About Sin?
Obviously how we think about sin changes how we think about repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation. If we understand sin to be primarily personal… the burden is on us individually to change our behavior. Change in personal...
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A Voice in the Wilderness
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Sea Raven
The underlying assumption in this study of Luke (and eventually Acts and the authentic letters of Paul) is that Luke wrote his gospel and his account of the Acts of the Apostles as a subversive counter to Roman oppression, and the Roman imperial...
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Sermon Should Religious Progressives Still Speak of "Sin"?
By: Rev. David McClean. “Sin” is not a word about problems with our body images or our bad relationships or our tempers or our spending habits, and how we can, in some piecemeal way, fix them. It isn’t a word about specific...
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Worship Materials
WSCF Universal Day of Prayer
First celebrated in 1898, the Universal Day of Prayer for Students is observed on the third Sunday of February; in 2010 it is celebrated on February 21st. The UDPS is one of the oldest ecumenical days of prayer. In line with WSCF's theme...
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Christmas Liturgy
Good morning…I am ___________ of this Community of Love…and on this 4th Sunday of Advent, we welcome you all to this inclusive spiritual community that invites and supports ALL people to know God’s love…and we join...
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Winter Solstice
We welcome you to this inclusive and universal Celebration of Light, on this Winter Solstice—the longest, darkest night of the year. Since ancient times…this drama around the return of the actual physical light that sustains...
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