Pentecost? What’s that you say?
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“Zapped” by agape. Acts 2:1-21 May we all be zapped by that same love. And then step out and live the faith we believe. #pentecost #progressivechristian
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Seeds to Sheaves
It can seem like all of our efforts to change things are fruitless. No matter what we do, the world remains mired in greed and exploitation.
Continue readingOpening Our Eyes
If we are the hands of God in Creation, isn’t it up to us to be the ones who bring about the transformation the author of Isaiah is talking about?
Continue readingBalancing Doubt and Certainty
Thomas’ problem wasn’t that he’d “go to hell” if he doubted the Resurrection. It was that he’d be afraid to live his faith in atransformational way.
Continue readingIt’s a Heart Thing – Easter 2012
Easter isn’t about “historical reality.” It’s about our living, inseverable, relationship with God. It’s not a rational, head thing. It’s a heart thing.
Continue readingMetanoia – A Living Covenant
the spiritual transformation – metanoia – that we’re called to as Christians, summed up in the passages from Jeremiah and John, embodies the Easter Message
Continue readingPeace – Advent 2011
“And what happened then? Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day.” It didn’t happen because the Grinch agreed to adhere to any particular doctrine, or because he was threatened by some Zeus-god hurling thunderbolts. He wasn’t converted. He was transformed.
Continue readingOne With God
What does it mean to Christianity, and to what we as Christians are called to do, if there is no “separation” between us and God?
Continue readingWhatever Happened to the Age of Aquarius?
Peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars. When will the Age of Aquarius arrive? That’s up to us.
Continue readingSpiritual Resurrection
Perhaps one of the reasons that traditional salvation theology has never held any attraction for me is because I’ve never for an instant felt separated from God.
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