Quote:Gary Wilburn, a friend and collegue passed away this week. He will be deeply missed and always appreciated. Here is something he wrote to us at TCPC: "I just want to thank you for your friendship, support, and the great coverage you have been giving my books and articles. It’s nice to know I have friends in high places! Both on a friendship level and on a cause level it is so important to hang together rather than separately (in both senses of the word!). We are all in this thing together and I love the fact that we can enjoy and encourage one another even though we can’t hang out together. Much love and appreciation to you." ~Gary
The Center for Progressive Christianity provides guiding ideas, networking opportunities, and resources for progressive churches, organizations, individuals and others with connections to Christianity.
We promote an understanding of Christian practice and teaching that leads to a greater concern for the way people treat each other than for the way people express their beliefs, the acceptance of all people, and a respect for other religious traditions.
We affirm the variety and depth of human experience and the richness of each persons' search for meaning, and we encourage the use of sound scholarship, critical inquiry, and all intellectual powers to understand the presence of God in human life.
We are opposed to any exclusive dogma that limits the search for truth and free inquiry, and we encourage work that eases the pain, suffering and degradation inherent in many of the structures of society, as well as work that keeps central to the Christian life fair, open, peaceful, and loving treatment of all human beings.
A Joyful Path- Year One of the Inner Wisdom Series Progressive Christian Children's Curriculum (AGES 6-10) is now availableClick here for more info or to purchase*Note: Curriculum will be shipped out in July 2010.
"At last, Sunday School lessons for which no apology is necessary!" ~James R. Adams, Author of So You Think You're Not Religious and From Literal to Literacy
Sermon Interfaith or Innerfaith?
By
Jim Burklo
What does “interfaith dialogue” mean among the rapidly increasing number of people who have no formal faith affiliation at all? SBNR – Spiritual But Not Religious – is clearly a category that is gaining ground... MORE
Article The New Atheists Are God's Prophets
The New Atheists are to be commended for demanding that humanity update our maps of reality and that we begin to value and actually use our modern and much enhanced capacities to discern right relationship and to devise age-appropriate ways... MORE
Article The Evolutionary Evangelist
Coming into right relationship with reality is the great challenge of our time because it encompasses all of humanity’s challenges. Traditionally, maps of reality—that is, maps of how things are and which things matter—were... MORE
Worship Material The Lord's Prayer: An Interpretation
By
Jim Burklo
Dear One, closer to us than our own hearts, farther from us than the most distant star, you are beyond naming. May your powerful presence become obvious not only in the undeniable glory... MORE
Article The Lord's Prayer for Daily Life (Introduction)
The introduction to the book The Living Hour: The Lord’s Prayer for Daily Life (with New Testament Gospels). A faith book especially suited for Progressive Christianity workshops, Bible Study Groups, Unitarian Christians, and all who... MORE
Article Town Recalls Former Pastor
The Rev. Gary Wilburn, friend, leader and pastor died at around 2 p.m. Monday, June 28, after a battle with Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 67. Bev Wilburn, the late pastor’s wife,... MORE
Article Imagining a future for the Bible in tomorrow’s churches and a post-Christian world
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Gregory C. Jenks
Jack Spong has attempted to rescue the Bible from fundamentalism and Marcus Borg has encouraged us to read the Bible again for the first time. However, the Bible remains a problematic text for religious progressives, including Christians and... MORE
Book Coming Back to Earth From gods, to God, to Gaia
By
Lloyd Geering
The mainline churches in the Western world are declining, concludes Lloyd Geering, because they are “all out of step” with the modern secular world. This is not so much a result of the supposed renegade behavior of the secular... MORE
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Progressive Christianity is not simply inviting folks to come in shorts and sandals, providing Starbucks coffee, or having a band that plays Christian rock music. It is not church-as-usual...
A federal court in Boston ruled last week that same-sex married couples deserve federal recognition. That case, along with another in California, is likely to move the battle closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.
ABC Radio Interview of TCPC President, Fred Plumer on "The Experience of God" CLICK HERE
