• By Published On: December 1, 2023

    "Blue Christmas" services, which take place to support people struggling emotionally during the holiday season, are becoming more common. This song was written for such services. Ken Janzen sings and plays the instruments.

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  • By Published On: December 1, 2023

    "Blue Christmas" services, which take place to support people struggling emotionally during the holiday season, are becoming more common. This song was written for such services. Ken Janzen sings and plays the instruments.

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  • By Published On: November 22, 2023

    When AARP Massachusetts was looking to honor the state's top volunteer, Paul's and Charles's names rose to the top. They have made a difference in the lives around them, sharing their knowledge, experience, talent, and skills to enrich the lives of our community.

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  • By Published On: November 22, 2023

    So why do we persist in comparing ourselves to others? And suffering the frustration that results?

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  • By Published On: November 22, 2023

    There is no question that the voices of marginalized people are found in the Bible if you look carefully. The New Testament also presents a picture of a beautiful man who talked about a God of love and forgiveness and who urged his followers to create communities that practiced nonviolence, inclusion, and the pursuit of social and economic justice.

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  • Living and learning in harmony with creation and with one another

    By Published On: November 22, 2023

    Imagine . . . you begin the day in the classroom of the earth, learning about God’s good creation by feeling it, working with it, helping coax its fruit to maturity.

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  • By Published On: November 22, 2023

    4 Advent Video Hymns written for the Worship Design Studio, which created its own separate videos. Recordings and videos by Ken Janzen

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  • By Published On: November 16, 2023

    Every parent and educator will welcome the blend of multicultural tales, biographies, universal spirituality, and original fun adventures of children who could live on your street. Expansive, respectful, real, and warm with kindness, these stories offer possibilities for life to children and adults who feel in their heart that they belong to a larger reality.

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  • By Published On: November 13, 2023

    I am deeply concerned about the rise of Christian nationalism in this country. I say this not just as a Christian but as the president of Pacific School of Religion (PSR), a progressive Christian seminary founded in 1866.

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  • By Published On: November 13, 2023

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

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  • By Published On: November 11, 2023

    The material we are exploring is controversial; the subject matter is often tied to deeply held beliefs. The intention of this study guide is not to change your mind but to challenge your beliefs.

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  • By Published On: November 9, 2023

    "The Way" integrates religion and science and reconciles Eastern and Western worldviews, confirming with the mystics and the scientists that everyone is related, and everything is connected.

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  • By Published On: November 6, 2023

    Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines sat down this week for an interview with Ciprian Khlud about the basics of Progressive Christianity.

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  • You have to live with hope for the possibilities of the future

    By Published On: November 6, 2023

    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. 

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  • By Published On: November 1, 2023

    An old hymn of mine, recently rewritten slightly. Recorded here by the Orange Coast Unitarian Universalist Choir.

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  • By Rick Fabian

    By Published On: November 1, 2023

    Jesus’ words and Paul’s words have changed millions of lives, and will change yours. The Bible records their teachings separately, so we must join them afresh as one. This book will open your ears and your heart to their shared work.

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  • By Dag Øistein Endsjø

    By Published On: November 1, 2023

    Learn about how people have sought physical immortality since the beginning of time, what means are employed to escape death, how various religions promise you eternal life, and about the men and women who are said to have already become immortal.

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  • By Carol Baker

    By Published On: November 1, 2023

    This book offers a treasure-trove of practical tools for grounding ourselves emotionally and spiritually amid both the long-term crises and the related challenges that confront us moment to moment as we navigate unprecedented events and their invariable consequences. 

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  • By Published On: October 30, 2023

    The novel takes us through the racial struggles of the sixties, the horrible plague decimating gay men with AIDS in San Francisco in the ‘80s, and the devastating consequences of a Roman Catholic priest preying on a young boy.

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  • By Published On: October 30, 2023

    The polarization we see in society is also reflected in the Church.

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  • By Published On: October 28, 2023

    The mystic seeks direct experience of the divine to explore its perceptual, emotional, and metaphysical nature. For the mystic, the entire universe is conscious and alive, saturated by an all-encompassing eternal and loving Presence.

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  • on AI, religion, and

    By Published On: October 28, 2023

    What I am saying is that if we are not looking at the whole reality of being human, the good the bad and the embarrassing, then we simply will not have the wisdom to know how to make use of, them in, or regulate AI.

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  • By Published On: October 28, 2023

    The second in the series that looks at the life of Jesus.

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  • By Published On: October 27, 2023

    "The Way" integrates religion and science and reconciles Eastern and Western worldviews, confirming with the mystics and the scientists that everyone is related, and everything is connected.

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  • By Published On: October 23, 2023

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

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  • By Published On: October 23, 2023

    Some of the most important aspects of Jesus teachings were repressed from the beginning. The Hebrews started the repression. The Roman Catholic Church expanded it. And by and large the Protestants followed.

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  • What six hidden women can teach us about Jesus

    By Published On: October 21, 2023

    Who is Jesus to you? What informs and shapes your view of Jesus and his work?

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  • By Published On: October 18, 2023

    Suitable for progressive/inclusive/justice-focused Christian congregations. Written for The Fountains, a UMC congregation in Arizona.

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  • By Published On: October 16, 2023

    Join Mark and Caleb for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of Season 1 of Disney+'s latest Star Wars show, "Ahsoka."

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  • By Published On: October 16, 2023

    The Current is a loving, learning community. While much of our focus is on Jesus as our spiritual Rabbi, we welcome all faiths, ethnicities, gender identities, and questions here. We mean it when we say, “Come as you are.

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  • By Published On: October 13, 2023

    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.

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  • By Published On: October 13, 2023

    In the mystical consciousness of divinity, love saturates my being,

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  • By Published On: October 11, 2023

    Inspired by my March 2023 visit to The Fountains UMC in Arizona; written with a very simple melody and small range to maximize small congregations' ability to learn and sing the piece.

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  • By Published On: October 9, 2023

    Join Mark and Caleb for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of the first episode of Season 2 of Disney+'s "Loki."

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  • By Published On: October 7, 2023

    I belong to a support group of seven retired mainline clergypersons. Six of the seven no longer affirm historic, creedal, orthodox, traditional theology.

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  • By Published On: October 7, 2023

    It is now possible to answer the question of why Christians should engage in politics. The answer is simple: God is calling on them to do so with the whisper thoughts that float through their awareness

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  • By Published On: October 7, 2023

    I’m currently sitting in the 10+-year-old chair, listening to the sounds of rain on the top of the tent, and writing the words that will turn into this very article you are currently reading. It is my tradition to spend the evening and the day of Yom Kippur in a tent.

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  • Getting the Story Straight

    By Published On: October 7, 2023

    This is the first in a series that looks at the life of Jesus and contrasts the story that has come down through the ages with what probably really happened.

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  • By Published On: October 7, 2023

    As the persona of Donald Trump continues to dominate our public lives, increasingly, we have become aware of the cult of personality that has risen up in his shadow.  To be sure, it has evolved over time, but its existence as a cult cannot be denied. 

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  • By Published On: October 4, 2023

    This Communion hymn, commissioned by the First Congregational Church, Branford, CT, is appropriate for progressive/inclusive Christian churches.

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  • By Published On: October 2, 2023

    Join Mark and Caleb for this live recording as they enjoy a themed drink (or two) and bring their high-octane progressive Christian perspectives in consideration of the first three episodes of Prime Video's spin-off to hit show "The Boys": "Gen V."

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  • By Published On: September 28, 2023

    This progressive Christian hymn images Jesus as healer, teacher, and prophet, and invites all people (regardless of their religion) to be healers, teachers, and prophets in our time.

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  • Two Year Program Starting October 18, 2023

    By Published On: September 25, 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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  • By Published On: September 25, 2023

    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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  • By Published On: September 25, 2023

    Making a difference is a deep motivation for many of us.

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  • By Published On: September 22, 2023

    I had long silently harboured a deep foundational belief that what the Church taught about forgiveness was wrong. My experiences of it being used by various Christian people, as well as the Church, against me to guilt me, reinforced it.

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  • By Published On: September 22, 2023

    So it was a great irony that some of the most homeful people in Palo Alto were the houseless.  And some of the most homeless people in Silicon Valley were the housed. 

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  • By Published On: September 22, 2023

    Tim Scott is running for president. It's an impressive feat as the only African American Republican in today's U.S. Senate and the first Southern Black senator since Reconstruction.

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