Eco-Spiritual Direction Certificate

Two Year Program Starting October 18, 2023

Spiritual Direction is a vocation that supports others as they explore and deepen their spirituality. Eco-Spiritual Direction includes the rest of the sacred and alive world in that companionship.

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Accepting the Universal Christ

One of the things I’ve gathered from reading scholarship about the historical Jesus is very little about him can be said with certainty. Historians generally agree he existed and was crucified, but, beyond that, almost everything is debated.

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My Preface

My hope is that you are interested in changing and evolving in your life. In order to change, we need to know where we came from, what we were originally taught (in religious school or by our parents and teachers), whether it is still applicable today, and what new directions we might want to follow.

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How to Make Love (The Agape Kind) With Jesus

This book will help you examine your beliefs–where they came from, whether they are still applicable today, how they have changed over the years–and decide what new directions you might want to pursue.

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Come Holy Spirit

Using Our Spiritual Gifts to Change the World

Do you feel your spiritual life is dry, ineffectual, and lifeless? Ready for new, life-changing experiences? Take a deep dive into a life-changing book.

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Authentic Christianity: Why it Matters for Followers of Jesus

Christians are not widely known for authenticity. You may even feel stifled in the congregation you’ve been part of for years—and you wouldn’t be the only one.

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The Last Train to Nowhere

But sometimes, along the way, we get off the train
and, startled by beauty, question the whole routine.

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The Fugitives of Gethsemane: The Three Days Following the Crucifixion of Jesus

“The Fugitives of Gethsemane” dramatizes the story about four apostles during the 3 days between the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus.

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Ask a Progressive Christian – Q: What do Progressive Christians think about reincarnation?

Today’s “Ask a Progressive Christian” with ProgressiveChristianity.org Co-Executive Director Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines: What do Progressive Christians think about reincarnation?

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Sunday Musings with Diana Butler Bass – The Feast of the Transfiguration

  Too much of politics caters to our craving miracles; faith is often about finding some magical safe place. But mystical experiences are about real life. In the season of Ordinary Time, a most extraordinary event breaks …

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Jesus in Eden

And when Jesus had been baptized, just as he came up from the water, suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw God’s Spirit descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from the heavens said, “This is my Son, the Beloved,[e] with whom I am well pleased.”

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God Wants Us to Know

God wants us to know where we live,
to open our senses to now
and this and here,
because wherever we are is God.

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Jim Burklo Video at Wild Goose Festival 2023

Watch Jim Burklo talk about his history with Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism and how he changed over the years to Progressive Christianity.

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Doubt is our friend – Progressive Christianity

It can be scary to have doubts because we imagine that we are moving away from God. In reality, we are only moving away from our comfortable and established ideas about God.

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Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm

The American Methodist Church and the Struggle with White Supremacy

Our Hearts Were Strangely Lukewarm is a trustworthy guide into the church’s troubled history. It’s also a present-day call to action that finds inspiration in those Methodists who stood against the tide and those guiding the church today toward the horizon of racial justice.

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A Spiritual Thought Experiment: Saving Jesus from God’s Plan

Part Two

The four searchers now realized that there were two Jesus stories, one pervasive across the Christian churches, the other hidden in the background.

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My Long Farewell to Traditional Religion (and What Remains)

If I had to summarize my religious journey with one Bible verse, I would choose Matthew 28:17, “When they (the early disciples) saw him (the risen Christ), they worshiped him; but some doubted” (NIV).

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A Spiritual Thought Experiment: Saving Jesus from God’s Plan

Part One

How did the wealthy accrue the power to change the thinking of the church about who Jesus was and what he did? That, our four researchers discovered, is -up to now- a mystery hidden in history.

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