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Progressive Christian Columns

Activist Theology: Translating Theology to Action
by Dr. Robyn
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Lamenting The Tyranny of the Now

A few weeks ago, I wrote about our present moment being what I’m calling “The Tyranny of the Now.”...
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Alicia T. Crosby
by Alicia T. Crosby
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Practice vs. Process: Notes on Forgiveness, Repentance, and Grace

The following reflection is one I engaged in after having had a series of online and in-person...
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All Set Free
by Matthew J. Distefano
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To the Well-Meaning Christians, Please Stop

To the well-meaning Christians, please stop. If a loving relationship between two adults is filled...
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Andy Gill
by Andy Gill
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Trump Pushing for $1.2 Trillion to Give Cash to Individual Americans to Curb Negative Economic Effects From the Coronavirus

Apparently, Trump is Channeling his inner Andrew Yang as ABC News reports that Trump is pushing...
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Bethany Anderson
by Bethany Anderson
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Someone close to our family is getting an abortion today. It's ironic that I have found myself in...
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Biblically Literate: Exploring a Radical Faith with Matthew J. Korpman
by Matthew J. Korpman
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The Bible's All-Too Human Origins

The Bible is neither mysterious nor straightforward in how we have come to read it. Human hands...
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The Bite in the Apple
by Nancy Rockwell
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The Words of Angels

Nothing Is Impossible with God Angels. They appear throughout biblical stories, always...
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Brad Jersak
by Brad Jersak
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Is Humanity the Real Plague? (Spoiler—No) - Brad Jersak

Is Humanity the Real Plague? (Spoiler—No) A Response to Kristal Parks and Matthew Fox I wish to...
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Brian McLaren
by Brian McLaren
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When Patriarchy Is the Problem (Not the Solution)

We human beings have a lot of problems, and one of our biggest is men. Male humans often become...
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Brown Eyed Amazon
by AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez
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My Body. My Valentine.

I’ve been looking at this photo a lot recently. I love myself in it. I remember with such perfect...
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Buddhist-Christian-Quaker
by Danny Coleman
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Presence and Process

"After a long and gradual arc of creeping disillusionment with the form of evangelical church I...
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Capitol & Cathedral
by Jacob Lupfer
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Mistake in yesterday's Billy Graham post

I erred in trying to impute Reagan-era and subsequent evangelical disdain for mainline...
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Caryn Riswold
by Caryn Riswold
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What I Won’t Write About Mary Daly for the Encyclopedia

I’m writing an article on Mary Daly for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion,...
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Christian Piatt
by Christian Piatt
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More Than Jezebel (Third Week Advent Devotional)

Throughout Advent I will be posting sections from my weekly devotions in SURVIVING THE BIBLE: A...
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Christianity For the SBNR
by Sam Alexander
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Reading to Catch Lies: Marc Gafni’s Refutation of the Chaya Lester Attacks

So how does a public figure respond to an angry ex- partner’s internet smear campaign? It’s...
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Christianity is Changing
by Michael Hardin
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God breaks mirrors.

This is a guest post by Jonathan Sauder. God Breaks Mirrors We live in a world where narcissists...
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Clint Schnekloth
by Clint Schnekloth
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Against The Bloviating Justifiers Of Eucharistic Fasting And Opponents of Virtual Communion

With enforced quarantines as a result of a global pandemic, church leaders across the Lutheran...
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Coming Out Christian
by Coming Out Christian
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Why my civil rights should NOT be on your ballot today

I am grateful for the lawmakers in states around this beautiful and broken country who have the...
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A Convergence of Thought
by J. Cody Nielsen
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A return to A Convergence of Thought

I’ve been away from this column for a little more than six months. For the few of you who...
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Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
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Repent, and Believe the Good News: Black Lives Matter!

Recently, a sitting United States Senator from Mississippi “joked” about being on the front row of...
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Danielle Kingstrom
by Danielle Kingstrom
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Mountain of Malaise: A Radical Transformation During a Crisis

How does one even find the words to offer to an audience that has been confronted with ultimate...
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Divergence
by Darrell Lackey
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In Times of Crisis: We Are Our Prayers

Obviously, during a time like this, we need to be listening to the best medical, scientific, and...
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EcoPreacher
by Leah D. Schade
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Birds, Church, and Climate Change: Spotlight on Corina Newsome

Meet Corina Newsome, a black, millennial, Evangelical, zoologist/biologist whose work focuses on...
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Edges of Faith
by David Henson
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The Songs We Sing After Charlottesville (The Feast of Mary, Mother of Our Lord)

Homily for the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Luke 1:46-55 Not too long ago, I...
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Emergent Village
by Emerging Voices
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The Body Never Lies

But people do. I was leading a yoga retreat in the beautiful Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania in...
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Emma Higgs
by Emma Higgs
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Windmills of Your Mind: The Tyranny of Thought

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on...
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The Empty Pew
by Josh Lawson
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Four not-so-shocking things I've learned as a pastor

As I mentioned in my introductory article, I currently pastor an aging congregation...
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Everyday Black Matters
by Grace Sandra
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In Which Peacemaking Looks Like Confrontation

Lately, I've been asking the question about the role of confrontation in peacemaking. How do we...
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Faith Forward
by Faith Forward
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Finding a Feminist God

When I shared with friends and colleagues, two years ago, that I would be matriculating to Yale...
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Faith in Public Life: Rev. Jen Butler
by Rev. Jen Butler
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You can’t beat evil with a stump speech

After more than a year of campaigning, Democratic primary voters are finally winnowing the field...
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Faith on the Fringe
by Jim Meisner Jr.
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10 Ways to Cope with Anxiety

From the holidays to the coronavirus, from families to work, stress attacks our spirits, minds,...
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Faith Shift
by Kathy Escobar
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#BecauseOfRHE

“The work…is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other, and to be stretched large by...
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Faith With Wisdom
by Paul Peter Jesep
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Religious liberty threatened, Trump promotes pop-religion

Religious liberty is threatened. Many seeking to protect it are harming it. President Donald Trump...
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Femmevangelical
by Femmevangelical
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Watch ‘The Armor of Light’ on PBS May 10

'The Armor of Light’, a documentary film by Abigail Disney, follows Evangelical pastor Rob Schenck...
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For Such a Time as This - The Rev. Winnie Varghese
by Winnie Varghese
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Thank You Notes

When I was a new priest I wrote thank you notes on Monday mornings. At some point they became...
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FreedHearts
by Susan Cottrell
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Is It Okay to Lie About Your Orientation or Identity?

Queer folk often wonder whether it's okay to lie about their orientation or gender identity....
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Freelance Christianity
by Vance Morgan
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Loving Yourself During Coronavirus Seclusion (and Lent)

It has not been lost on many persons familiar with the Christian liturgical calendar that the...
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Frustrated Grace
by PK Langley
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Exclusion is Bullying

Exclusion This week my wife showed me a picture of her nephew. He had his 13th birthday. He's one...
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Glorious Life
by C. Don Jones
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Truth Is Important

Recent events have reminded us that facts are important. Indeed, the very importance of truth has...
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The God Article with Mark Sandlin
by The God Article with Mark Sandlin
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Following Jesus in the Age of Trump: Resistance as a Spiritual Practice

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from...
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Good and Truth
by Coleman Glenn
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Palm Sunday as Honeymoon

The events of Palm Sunday reflect a motif that is found both in the stories of Scripture and in...
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Grey Matters
by Meg Vallee
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When No One Is There to Accept Your Amends

The best apology is changed behavior. At least that’s what I tell my kids. I...
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Hellbound
by Kevin Miller
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You go ahead and keep feeling; I'll do the thinking for both of us

It seems to me that when it comes to controversial topics like gun control, we tend to believe the...
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Hippie Heretic
by Chuck McKnight
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Progressives Need to Start Preaching Hell Again

Maybe, rather than rushing in to immediately explain away what we think Jesus means by threatening...
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The Holy Kiss
by Roger Wolsey
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You're Gonna Die. Pro-tips for Death & Dying.

“Children! You’re gonna die! That’s right. You’re gonna die! You don’t think you’re gonna die! You...
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Honest to God
by Jayson D. Bradley
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3 Bad Habits We Pick Up from Corporate Prayer

I don’t know if anything in Christian thought and practice is more confusing than prayer. After...
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Irreverin
by Erin Wathen
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Pandemic: We Are One Body

Depending upon where you live, your life may or may not have been altered dramatically in the past...
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James Wellman on American Religion
by James Wellman
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A Lament for Liberal Protestantism

This review was previously published in Sociology of Religion, but since so few read journals,...
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Why Kavanaugh Should Withdraw

The problem with confirming Kavanaugh “even if he did it” on the premise that men shouldn't have...
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Unfundamentalist Christians
by Dan Wilkinson
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11 Bible Verses That Turn Christians Into Atheists

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Unfundamentalist Parenting
by Cindy Brandt
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Don't Unload your Spiritual Baggage on your Children

A new baby brings us such hope. They are so pure, their slate so clean, and for those of us who...
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Unsystematic Theology
by Kyle Roberts
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Eight Things We Gain When We Lose the Virgin Birth

Christians often avoid rethinking traditional doctrinal beliefs because of the fear of what they...
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The View from Dixon Hall
by Maria Dixon-Hall
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Maybe the Alt-Right is Right: The Futility of the Dream

“We insist that “diversity” is a great strength, but for most (white) Americans this is mere lip...
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Voices of RAWtools: Forging Peace in a World of Violence
by Michael Martin
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Remembering Sandy Hook

6 years ago RAWtools, Inc. didn't exist. And then tragedy struck in Newtown, CT at Sandy Hook...
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Wayward Woman
by Melinda Robinson
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Human Life is Priceless... Until Men Have to Pay

Yesterday, Libby Anne posted pretty much the exact blog post that has been forming in my head over...
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What God Wants for Your Life
by Fred Schmidt
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Playing God’s Infinite Game in the Age of Covid-19

Three weeks ago, in the first of three articles I outlined what I believe to be a way to move...
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Whiskey Preacher
by Whiskey Preacher
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AWMTPpodcast: Interview - Love Is A Seed

Amanda and Harley Mathews are the creative geniuses behind what has now become one the MUST...
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Who We Choose To Be with Amy Courts
by Amy Courts
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Choose Republicans or Life

This Tuesday, you cannot vote for Republicans AND vote “for Life.” Republican policies and...
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Writing Life
by Marilyn McEntye
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Living with Limits

“I don’t have all the time in the world, but I have all night.” James Dickey, "The...
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