Quote:Gary Wilburn, a friend and collegue passed away this week. He will be deeply missed and always appreciated. Here is something he wrote to us at TCPC: "I just want to thank you for your friendship, support, and the great coverage you have been giving my books and articles. It’s nice to know I have friends in high places! Both on a friendship level and on a cause level it is so important to hang together rather than separately (in both senses of the word!). We are all in this thing together and I love the fact that we can enjoy and encourage one another even though we can’t hang out together. Much love and appreciation to you." ~Gary
The Center for Progressive Christianity provides guiding ideas, networking opportunities, and resources for progressive churches, organizations, individuals and others with connections to Christianity.
We promote an understanding of Christian practice and teaching that leads to a greater concern for the way people treat each other than for the way people express their beliefs, the acceptance of all people, and a respect for other religious traditions.
We affirm the variety and depth of human experience and the richness of each persons' search for meaning, and we encourage the use of sound scholarship, critical inquiry, and all intellectual powers to understand the presence of God in human life.
We are opposed to any exclusive dogma that limits the search for truth and free inquiry, and we encourage work that eases the pain, suffering and degradation inherent in many of the structures of society, as well as work that keeps central to the Christian life fair, open, peaceful, and loving treatment of all human beings.
A Joyful Path- Year One of the Inner Wisdom Series Progressive Christian Children's Curriculum (AGES 6-10) is now availableClick here for more info or to purchase*Note: Curriculum will be shipped out in July 2010.
"At last, Sunday School lessons for which no apology is necessary!" ~James R. Adams, Author of So You Think You're Not Religious and From Literal to Literacy
Article Glenn Beck’s redemption song
Beck's DC rally offers a new kind of conservative religious politics.... MORE
Sermon(study/discussion guide) Toward a More Perfect Union
By
Jim Burklo
The will of the people is blessed. So how can we make sure it is more faithfully expressed? This is not just a matter of practical politics; there is something of the divine in the quest for “a more perfect Union”. ... MORE
Sermon Show Us God
By
Gary A. Wilburn
One of the primary issues which separates progressive churches from those which are not is our understanding of salvation. We do not believe that we, as Jesus’ followers,... MORE
Sermon A Sermon for Sneetches, Both Starful and Starless
By
Jim Burklo
What drives us to make ourselves look all the same - But look differently special at quite the same time? A strange situation without reason or rhyme! Conformity rules how we talk and we dress And governs the ways that we try to impress. We... MORE
Article Christianity, What's in A Name
To whom it may concern. After reading the powerful article "Anne Rice Quits Christianity" by Michael Rowe. I was inspired to submit the following article which I orignally wrote for our parish newsletter, following an incident which... MORE
Book Healing the Sexually Abused Heart: A Workbook for Survivors, Thrivers, and Supporters
Don't let abuse dominate your life or the life of someone you know! If you are a survivor of sexual abuse, this workbook is your key to a new life. Written by survivors themseves, it offers you insight and resources that can... MORE
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Regardless of the activity on the Mall this weekend or the inactivity on the Mall in the days after, the question before us still remains: Who do we want to be as a people and as a nation? Do we want to go back, or do we want to move forward? Do we want to erase the steps we struggled to take in the '60s by gutting or repealing the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the 14th Amendment, the Fair Housing Act, and other progressive measures? I say, we have suffered too long and struggled too hard to turn back now. As a nation and as a people, we cannot, and we must not go back.
Wrong Then, Wrong Now: What Yesterday's Anti-Catholicism Has in Common with Today's Islamophobia
For the past few months, I’ve been doing some research in New York newspapers on the anti-Catholic vitriol the Irish faced in the nineteenth century. It’s been hard to avoid noticing how similar those attacks are to the biting comments being made against Islam and the backers of a Muslim community center proposed for a lower Manhattan building near the World Trade Center site.
Beyond Adam and Eve: Christians reach out to the transgender community
When people discuss the rights of lesbians and gays in contemporary U.S. culture, and across religious denominations, the abbreviation "LGBT" is used as a shorthand: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. But are transgender people really being taken into account? What's the state of the struggle, where transpeople are concerned?
Obama's Pledge to Close Down Guantanamo is 'Not Even Close'
Barack Obama's pledge to shut down Guantanamo Bay will not be honoured until at least a year after the President's self-imposed deadline - and may not be completed in his first administration.
The Pew Hispanic Center, which conducts stellar research on everything from health care to religion, released a report today quantifying just how many children are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants. The report comes in the midst of a campaign by some Republicans to hold congressional hearings on whether children born to illegal immigrants should automatically become citizens.
ABC Radio Interview of TCPC President, Fred Plumer on "The Experience of God" CLICK HERE
