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We are a 501c3 non-profit organization that offers thoughtful and practical resources for individuals, families, and communities to explore and affect progressive Christianity, spirituality, community life, social and environmental justice.
Dr. Christena Cleveland joins us officially next week on our exclusive column newsletter Progressing Spirit. @christenacleveland is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the recently-launched Center for Justice + Renewal, a non-profit dedicated to helping justice advocates sharpen their understanding of the social realities that maintain injustice while also stimulating the soul’s enormous capacity to resist and transform those realities. Committed to leading both in the classroom and in the broader society, Christena writes regularly, speaks widely, and consults with organizations.
Dr. Cleveland holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara as well as an honorary doctorate from the Virginia Theological Seminary. An award-winning researcher and author, Christena leads a research team at Duke that is investigating self-compassion as a buffer to racial stress, and is currently working on her third book which examines the relationship among race, gender and cultural perceptions of the Divine.
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Join us this year at Wild Goose Festival! We will be there and we hope to see you too! Wild Goose just gets better each year and this year we are proud to be sponsoring the event as well as participating.
Wild Goose is a 4-day Spirit, Justice, Music and Arts Festival. But it’s so much more than that.
Author Brian D. McLaren sums it up this way: “At Wild Goose, people flock together to celebrate a way of life rooted in faith, justice, creativity, and beauty. It’s like a family reunion where you meet relatives you never knew you had. It’s a wild and wonderful convergence of stimulating conversations, campfires, music, kids, art, lawn chairs, prayer, fun, dance, frisbees, tents, food, sunshine, rain, laughter, and fresh air. There’s nothing like it, and I look forward to it as one of the best weeks of my year.”
See you there! Tickets and more info via the link below.
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : Wild Goose FestivalVideo Sermon with Rev. Dr. Roger L. Ray, Community Christian Church "State Mandated Sexual Assault"
Missouri, in an attempt to make obtaining an abortions more difficult, expensive, and humiliating, recently required a medically unnecessary second pelvic exam for all women who sought to obtain an abortion. This inexcusable and invasive addition of a medically meaningless invasive exam can only be called sexual assault, made much worse because it is mandated by the state government.
These progressive sermons are available as podcasts at iTunes.
Dr. Roger L. Ray
pastor, The Emerging Church
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : State Mandated Sexual AssaultThe Challenge of Paul Video Series
Paul is one of Christianity’s most impactful, yet most debated and misunderstood figures. In “The Challenge of Paul,” John Dominic Crossan gives us the benefit of his lifelong search for the Paul of history to create a new understanding that sheds new light on Paul and why he is more relevant than ever today.
Perfect for Church Classes, Small Groups, or Individual Study
Each theme contains four 15-to-18-minute video sessions, plus a Prologue in Volume 1, and downloadable discussion questions and a resource guide. A full digital transcript is available as an optional add-on. We’ve also made this product available in your choice of media: DVD or USB flash drive.
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ProgressiveChristianity.org : FaithandReason® presents The Challenge of Paul, featuring John Dominic Crossan
