{"id":2898,"date":"2010-05-06T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/p4-progressivepanentheist-praise-project\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T14:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T14:35:00","slug":"p4-progressivepanentheist-praise-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/05\/p4-progressivepanentheist-praise-project.html","title":{"rendered":"P4: Progressive\/Panentheist Praise Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I made a remark in a comment, as seriously as I ever am about anything, but merely in passing, curious whether anyone would find the idea interesting. Since someone did, I decided to post about it and see if I can get a sense of just how much interest there is, and whether a blog can facilitate collaboration on something like this.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is for a <em><u>Progressive\/Panentheist Praise Project<\/u><\/em>, an endeavor for Christians whose theological outlook is\u00a0rarely expressed through contemporary Christian music, and sometimes profoundly at odds with it, to produce music and lyrics that <em>does<\/em> reflect where we are coming from and how we view things.<\/p>\n<p>I expect that this will be a topic for further discussion here. For now, I just want to float the idea in a post of its own, rather than as a passing remark in a comment, and see what readers have to say! But let me add that I am aware that in the more progressive and creative versions of Christianity there are multiple viewpoints, imagery, concepts, metaphors, not to mention stylistic preferences and other differences that are always there. 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