Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
Religion News Service Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/26/churches-return-land-to-indigenous-groups-amid-repentance-for-role-in-taking-it-landback-movement/ The returns come as some mainline Protestant Christian denominations have learned about and repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, the justification for European Christians to seize…
Religion News Service Progressive United Methodists announce new denomination: Liberation Methodist Connexion from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/11/30/progressive-united-methodists-announce-new-denomination-liberation-methodist-connexion/
Brian McLaren God Creates Good Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from ”A New Kind of Christianity” If Genesis sets the stage for the biblical narrative, this much is unmistakably clear: God's unfolding drama is…
Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans’ father on his daughter’s final days and the ongoing impact of her life ‘I was her dad, and was proud to be so. I didn’t try to put the brakes on Rachel. Controversial issues were hers to play out,’ Peter Held tells RNS…
Brandan Robertson Progressive revelation Along with this notion of an expanding Kingdom, Jesus also preached a message about progressive revelation, or that God would reveal Truth continually and gradually throughout the ages. When Jesus…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Judging a society based on how the most vulnerable are treated In contrast to the conservative Christian focus on “saving souls” from eternal conscious torment in hell, progressives return to Matthew 25, where Jesus builds on the long history of Jewish…
Diana Butler Bass Water “[Jesus] gives water, and he is water.” (Grounded, p. 76) SCRIPTURE: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, “Give me a…
Brian McLaren The Rhetoric That Frees Us by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/what-i-shared-on-election-eve/
Father James Martin Jesuit tools to help you survive the election (and its aftermath) by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/02/jesuit-spirituality-election-2020-james-martin
Brandan Robertson Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God, the renewal of the world, would happen progressively over time The question of “What is the Gospel” isn’t a hard one to answer. Jesus explicitly states it many times throughout the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. In Mark…
Madeleine L'Engle Inseparable All right. So it’s an impossible task. But thinking about it may open new questions , new insights. And as I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
Brian McLaren Biblical Defense Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from "A New Kind of Christianity" But very few Christians today, in my experience anyway, have given a second thought to—much less repented of—this…
Religion News Service Poll: White evangelicals are religious outliers on every issue of concern to voters Only 35% of white evangelicals said the coronavirus is of critical concern, according to PRRI’s 11th annual American Values Survey. Among this group, abortion and terrorism top the list of…
Religion News Service How to make our politics better: Pray first, says a Jesuit guide from Religion News Service The kind of prayer recommended by a new pamphlet on civic engagement is the kind that helps us listen, detached from our own preconceptions and prejudices.…
Uncategorized Bipartisan Christian group forms super PAC to oppose Trump from The Associated Press https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-political-action-committees-christianity-campaigns-942797a20ac8fe9bd9b12edd0adc651a
Uncategorized The Vatican has betrayed the faithful in China https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/10/10/china-and-christianity-vatican-deal-china-allows-persecution-column/5899207002/?fbclid=IwAR38bh136o1fJUNuIxFBhN7tb0NAP9CfbtdRb6IV-z_oYKRJtaTxSi184q4
Religion News Service Amy Coney Barrett nomination fight leaves progressive Catholics feeling unseen from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2020/10/12/with-nomination-of-amy-coney-barrett-progressive-catholics-feel-unseen-and-misrepresented/
Madeleine L'Engle Christian art? Christian art? Art is art; painting is painting; music is music; a story is a story. If it’s bad art, it’s bad religion, no matter how pious the subject. If…
