This was a powerful conversation, including about the importance of compassion as a spiritual response to suffering and cruelty in the world.

How are we supposed to cope with the despair that sets in when our known world is stolen and an invading, oppressive regime steps in?

Ask A Progressive Christian – Can I be a Christian without being baptized?

Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: Is Suffering Redemptive?

I have a caveat: never read the Bible without some sort of reliable scholarly information by your side.

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.

  Join Mark and Caleb as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of Netfilx’s post-apocalyptic hit based on a DC comic series by the same name, “Sweet …

Ask A Progressive Christian – Q: Can you be progressive and a Christian?

  The Easter experience is about the birth of a new consciousness.  It is a consciousness that burst upon the followers of Jesus through his suffering unto death on the cross.  In many ways, Jesus’ followers, and …

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Pastor Marshela Salgado: Q: Does God Cause Suffering?

Ask a Progressive Christian – Can You Be a Gay Christian?

When, if ever, is anger appropriate? If we want to be good actors in the world, and become the peace we’d like to see in the world, can we allow anger to exist? How do we know when anger is ok and how much anger is ok?

Ask A Progressive Christian – Q: Is there an Afterlife?

Walking with the Spiritual but Not Religious takes a fresh look at being a spiritual companion for those who self-identify as something other than religious—SBNR, Nones, not religious, agnostics, atheists, people who have experienced something unexplainable, and those who have encountered the paranormal (religious or otherwise).

Saints and heroes of the LGBTQ community come alive through bold artwork in ‘Heavenly Homos, Etc’. by Dutch priest Jan Haen. He paints diverse people of faith, courage, and love who can inspire readers with new models of queer holiness. The clear, concise style packs a whole pantheon of saints into a single user-friendly volume.

This book explains the beginnings of Calvinism and the later individuals who played a significant role in its perpetuation. Many contradictions are discussed.

Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What do you make of the Trinity?

Join Caleb and Mark as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration a landmark of American cinema and some even consider it one of the greatest movies ever made, “Back to the Future.”

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Roger Wolsey Q: Does Hell Exist?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: Is the Resurrection Real?

Can it be, the Divine comes to walk with us
on the road of our doubts,
our pain, our brokenness?

With deep understanding of the human spirit, each poem by Tina Datsko de Sánchez touches the reader’s core with its rich imagery and holy metaphors.

Watch this video short made on April 22, 2023

Justin James Sinclair is a young man on a mission.  He made retreats at the St Andrew’s Abbey and New Camaldoli monasteries in California, where, to his astonishment, he discovered a strand of Christianity that no one in the evangelical churches he attended, nor at Biola University where he studied, had revealed to him before. 

It would be refreshing for churches to boldly proclaim a countercultural message that love, compassion, community, service, and justice matter more than institutional survival.

The Bible is a very human book with differing positions on who Jesus was and what he said. The result is you can find a passage in the Bible to support any political position you choose to take.

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with board member Rev. Larry J. Morris III: What does the Bible say about violence? What’s your perspective? Is violence ever justified?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Board Member Rev. Dr. Mark Sandlin Q: Is the Rapture Real?

Watch this video short made on April 17, 2023

Join Mark and Caleb as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of Season 1 of HBO’s hit series, “The Last of Us.”

Today we begin our new daily series “Ask a Progressive Christian.” ProgressiveChristianity.org board member Rev. Roger Wolsey explores the question: “Is God okay with transgender persons?”

“God does not exist,” says James Finley, the renowned Catholic mystic who has dedicated most of his existence to studying, writing and talking about God. Wait…what? Oh, there’s more.

Throughout my ministerial service, numerous people have expressed to me their discomfort and disagreement with the language of the “Lord’s Prayer.” For years I didn’t ‘get it,’ and I used the “traditional” version (which, of course, is not Jesus’ words as he did not speak English).

If the sacredness of a person is not acknowledged, or is mistreated, the child or Spirit within will go into hiding until it may be safe again to emerge, to be healed, become whole/holy.

The sacred myth tells us that Jesus rose from death after three days – what transformation happened in that tomb? Jim Burklo connects the story with our gestation of fear into faith, victimhood into victory, harmful theology into healthy spirituality.

Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? This provocative audio documentary explores the history of a conflict that nearly tore America apart.