We know how hard it is to come up with fresh sermons each week. Take Back Christianity has condensed an array of thoughtful and theologically-rooted sermon starters. We invite you to peruse and use these resources, as you use your voice to help create a better world for our Christian faith and our nation.

We know how hard it is to come up with fresh sermons each week. Take Back Christianity has condensed an array of thoughtful and theologically-rooted sermon starters. We invite you to peruse and use these resources, as you use your voice to help create a better world for our Christian faith and our nation.

We know how hard it is to come up with fresh sermons each week. Take Back Christianity has condensed an array of thoughtful and theologically-rooted sermon starters. We invite you to peruse and use these resources, as you use your voice to help create a better world for our Christian faith and our nation.

Donald Trump promised, “In four more years, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.” His words are starkly anti-democratic and—from a candidate who incited a mob to attempt a deadly coup—deeply disturbing.

When I watched—repeatedly—the news report of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, my heart time-travelled. To Robert Kennedy shot dead. To Martin King and Malcolm X, shot dead. To John Kennedy, shot dead. To Gabby Gifford, Ronald Reagan and George Wallace. To the people acting very surprised at this violent act, I say, “Why are you surprised? This is a shoot-em-up nation.

Juneteenth is a celebration of the end of slavery, a day to honor the survival and resilience of Black people throughout 400 years of sheer inhumanity: from the profound sadism of slavery, through the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, and segregation, to the racism of today. 

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, along with the suffering of international immigrants, are reflecting a deadly clash of values within Christianity in the United States.

When I was young, had anyone suggested that I spend most of my life being “a minister,” I’d have smirked, thought about it, and then laughed right out loud.

Meister Eckhart asks, "How can anyone be compassionate toward her neighbor who is not compassionate toward herself?" This is why Jesus says: ‘Be compassionate!'

The RBC’s meeting wasn’t, apparently, about the conversations that could be had at the TCC. To avoid any unexpected conversations, in fact, the bank blocked access to the meeting to any but shareholders, a practice that, I’ve been told, is relatively new.

Who could have imagined only a few years ago that there would be controversy in the United States of America about the importance of democracy? 

Whispering Ethics nudges us to the spiritual high ground in the hope we will do the right thing as we seek to listen to the music of God's goodness and love as they sing in our awareness and conscience.     

If we want peace, it has to start with us. We must uproot violence from our language, in the ways we relate to one another.

We recently celebrated the life, faith and non-violence of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The moment triggers within us a host of emotions-thankfulness for heroes such as he, distress about the state of our country, anxiety about the future, and fear for the present.

As I’m writing this commentary, the news is filled with chatter about another anniversary observance of January sixth. It’s not about the liturgical religious observance known as the Epiphany, of course; but the third-year anniversary of those days surrounding the political insurrection in our nation’s Capital.

Does Jesus really mean we must love our neighbor? And who is our neighbor?

Let's assume that a chance for peace still exists on the other side of the current Israeli/ Hamas war.  By no means a sure thing, but we have to hope. 

    It has been so hard to watch the events unfolding in Gaza and not fall into the ease of a hardline

You get no racism, no sexism, no homophobia, no classism…no negative stuff at all from Progressive Christians. You get positive people doing positive things.

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.”

Heavenly LGBTQ+ highlights the role of LGBTQ+ people in the Russia-Ukraine war and puts it into a broader context.

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: Can Christians Own Guns?

Ask a Progressive Christian - Q: What Does The Bible Say About Guns?

Decolonizing Christianity is a hard book to read - but it’s one white Christians should read, especially those of us who claim to be progressive.

As our world faces the spectacle of Russia still harming civilians while it rampages through Ukraine, we re-visit our award-winning series, “The Power of Nonviolence”. The focus is to tell poignant stories about alternatives to military destruction and other violence, and to illustrate that there are more humane and saner ways to resolve conflict — a theme urgently needed now.

I cannot tell you how furious I am with the politicians in our country, in both chambers (mostly Republicans), who stubbornly (thinking only of themselves) refuse to enact significant gun reform legislation. 

What Eisenhower and King had in common was a dream of a different kind of America.

Scripture: Deuteronomy 6.1-9 and Leviticus 19.18" Jacqui Lewis

His Dream still wishes to anoint the barricades of faith and of control.

Dr. Martin Luther King, whose Feast Day we celebrate today, had his criticism of church and religion.