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August 2026

August 20, 2026

A Religious Socialist Answer to Dennis McIntyre

I read Dennis McIntyre's recent Patheos article The Rise of DSA And America's Socialist Movement....

July 2025

July 24, 2025

What Are Human Beings?

What are human beings? Are we the crowning point of all Creation? Are we a...

June 2025

June 11, 2025

The Kingship Problem

"When Jesus realized that they were about to come and take him by force to...

March 2024

March 12, 2024

Rage And Nonviolence

What is left to us now? He asked me. Rage, I replied. The exchange (my...

August 2023

August 03, 2023

Christ in the Margins?

Do we picture Jesus as a person on the margins? Progressive Christians do see him...

June 2023

June 12, 2023

For The Healing of The Earth

Earth is more than the planet on which we live. It is the word we...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Pastoral Liberation Theology

Theology is speculative without some sense of practice. Liberation theology is the most practical of...

December 2022

December 19, 2022

Bringing Them In?

Will we be bringing liberal secular people back to church? During a discussion I had...

September 2022

September 22, 2022

Liberation, Solidarity, And Ecology in the Capitalocene

Progressive Christians know there is not one liberation theology. United Methodist theologian Joerg Rieger has...

July 2022

July 21, 2022

3 Steps to Reconstructing Faith from Christian Nationalism

A friend confessed she was having a faith crisis because of Christian nationalism. She needs...

July 11, 2022

Faking Community

A new HBO series The Anarchists is really about faking community. Briefly stated; the series is...

June 2022

June 30, 2022

A Death Cult

Fascism is a death cult. It does not matter what form or name it takes....

June 02, 2022

Pentecost And Discipleship

Easter season ends with Pentecost. Often it is lost in the shuffle in church worship...

February 2022

February 14, 2022

Truth Divides Before It Unites

The truth will set you free. But only when we are ready to step up...

February 09, 2022

Did Matthew Change The Beatitudes?

I swallowed nervously knowing what my next question would produce. We were studying Luke's version...

February 07, 2022

Holy Disobedience Or Holy Initiative

Protestants do not have a clear idea of holy obedience. We leave that submission to...

January 2022

January 18, 2022

The Hard Text

Everyone who reads the Bible finds hard texts in it. They are texts that upset...

October 2021

October 14, 2021

Mission Without Meditation

We all agreed what we needed in our Annual Conference is a renewed sense of...

September 2021

September 16, 2021

Wisdom And Desiring The Divine Feminine in Appalachia

Spirituality and wisdom are inseparable. The two are so intertwined in Christian thought that you...

August 2021

August 02, 2021

How We Came To Be Known For What We Hate

The Church is known for what we hate. We often try to cover ourselves with...

July 2021

July 01, 2021

The American Christian Mythology

Progress is the American mythical value. Our most cherished belief is that we are improving....

June 2021

June 28, 2021

Hail Mary: Saving Paradise By Technology

Project Hail Mary is the latest work by Andy Weir. It is as good if not...

June 17, 2021

Listening To Working Class Folks

The Working Class has spoken. They spoke in 2016 and 2020. But are we listening?...

June 14, 2021

4 Paths Toward A Religious Vision of Nature

June is the month I consider again the same is question. What paths lead to...

May 2021

May 27, 2021

Disciplining Christians

Yes. You read that correctly. Disciplining instead of discipling. I had an experience with this...

May 20, 2021

The River To The Sea

The Sea of Galilee is a wide lake of the Jordan river. The Jordan flows...

May 17, 2021

5 Beliefs Of Progressive Christians

Why use the label "Progressive Christian?" C.S. Lewis argued that putting Christian beliefs alongside any...

May 03, 2021

Two Righteous Evils

Serious Christians know there are some troubling passages in our Bible. Some of the righteous...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Decolonizing White Privileged Christianity

Miguel A. De La Torre discussed his new book on Crackers and Grape Juice a...

March 15, 2021

Saint Patrick And His Love Letter

Saint Patrick is a symbol of Irish nationalism. He and the Harp of Tara are...