Daily Poems of Abundance, Generosity, and Gratitude
Singing Fierce Gratitude: Daily Poems of Abundance, Generosity, and Gratitude is a reminder to savor, to feast, and to share the abundance of God's goodness.
Congratulations to Board of Directors and Advisors of ProgressiveChristianity.or for for capturing six of the top ten on Feedspot's List of the Top 60 Progressive Christian Influencers in 2024!
Christian Nationalism presents an existential threat to both Christ’s church and American democracy. Now is the time — before it is too late — to reckon with all the places its pernicious influence arises. On full display in recent elections, Christian Nationalism also exists in sanctuaries where an American flag has been displayed for decades, when we pledge allegiance to one nation “Under God” or when the U.S. is called a Christian nation.
In A Journey Called Hope, author Rick Rouse shares the stories of immigrants from around the world to America — their successes, hopes, challenges, and dreams. He explores how we can share our planet with the understanding that it is a matter of human dignity for all people to have a safe place to call home. In sharing these inspiring stories and hope-filled futures, Rouse assures us the United States is still a nation of promise made richer by its diversity.
Abandoning Vengeance and Embracing True Justice
Once an Assistant Attorney General in Tennessee, Preston Shipp found his convictions challenged after teaching criminal justice courses to inmates from the Tennessee Prison for Women. He resigned from prosecuting and continued teaching.
Abundant Lives: A Progressive Christian Ethic of Flourishing invites sociologically informed engagement in human well-being based on Jesus’ command to love God, our neighbors, ourselves, and our enemies.
From The Collective with Rick Gregory
Watch Episode 20 of The Awakened Collective with Rick Gregory as he interviews Special Guest Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines, author of The Great Digital Commission.
Sermon: Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Presbyterian Church of the Covenant
All atonement theories get it wrong by substituting beliefs about Jesus for the way (his virtues, values, and practices) of Jesus that he taught us by word and deed.
Fifty years ago, in 1974, the Combahee River Collective was founded in Boston by several lesbian and feminist women of African descent. As a sisterhood, they understood that their acts of protest were shouldered by and because of their ancestors—known and unknown—who came before them.
Words: Jim Burklo Tune: Christ the Lord is Risen Today – Easter Hymn 7.7.7.7.
by Robert P. Jones
Native American racism, then goes even deeper to the historic Christian documents that have infected not only Christian teachings but also have been fundamental principles embedded in laws, policies, decisions, and cultures ever since to the present. His research and documentation are extensive, unnerving, and compelling reading.
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?
by Judith Lewis Herman, MD
Herman says every survivor she interviewed or worked with has wished above all for the following: Acknowledgment and vindication, apology and amends. Those 4 things are what justice looks like for the people directly affected.
Will American politicians stand up to Putin? Will they learn anything from the sacrifice of Navalny?
Sheet Music and Audio
It is meant to be shared around the table, in the car, or wherever your journeys take you! It's a celebration of God's love for all, echoing Jesus' words during the Last Supper and affirming our role in furthering God's Kingdom work as we love and serve one another.
Cosmic Mystery Series
Tunes: ENDURING LIFE 88.66.88 and TEMPLETON 88.66.88
Cosmic Mystery Series
Tune: RENDEZ á DIEU 98.98D Arr.Louis Burgeois 1510-1561
Cosmic Mystery Series
Come raise your voice with me now In Eucharistic feast, Come celebrate this art form
Vigils are being held regionally and all over the world to protest the horrific war in Israel. Pro-Israeli and Pro-Palestinian advocates are demanding their people’s plights be heard.
by Sarah Augustine
ince the Doctrine of Discovery undergirded everything about colonialism, its consequences are ongoing.
Fierce love pursues peace through nonviolence
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.
How simplicity can save us and our world
Based on the Lectionary readings for Year B from the Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospels
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.
There’s no such thing as a nobody. That’s the message of Mary. Until her immaculate conception, until she howled out the Magnificat, she had become accustomed to being treated as a nobody.
Cosmic Mystery Series
Come let us think like mountain rocks, Come breathe the song of scented breeze,
Cosmic Mystery Series
Come join with me to sing the song That dwells deep in our heart, Sometimes it’s hidden or suppressed
Cosmic Mystery Series
Come embrace the Christmas child, Child of every human birth, Birth in stable, home or ward,
Cosmic Mystery Series
Come embrace the child of Christmas, Child of every human birth, Birth in stable, ward or dwelling,
Cosmic Mystery Series
Claiming peace when peace is absent * Stirs the prophet’s angry call. Peace may seem as close as breathing War though seldom seems to stall.