Progressive Christianity
Progressive Christianity is an open, intelligent and collaborative approach to the Christian tradition and the life and teachings of Jesus that create pathways into an authentic and relevant religious experience.
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Outrage
But if we are to maintain our democracy, we need to maintain our outrage, feed and encourage it. The question is: how can we do that when our own brain is moving in the other direction? How can we continue the resistance to the injustice when our own brain is advising us to calm down and relax?
The Power of WIth
Walt Shelton invites you into a meaningful conversation about living with greater intention. Drawing from his unique background in both law and religion, Shelton explores big, important ideas through a creative framework of simple, powerful four-letter words—like Care, Pray, and Time.
The Core Values of Progressive Christianity
By calling ourselves Progressive Christians we mean we are Christians who:
1. Believe that following the way and teachings of Jesus can lead to experiencing sacredness, wholeness, and unity of all life, even as we recognize that the Spirit moves in beneficial ways in many faith traditions.
2. Seek community that is inclusive of all people, honoring differences in theological perspective, age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, class, or ability.
3. Strive for peace and justice among all people, knowing that behaving with compassion and selfless love towards one another is the fullest expression of what we believe.
4. Embrace the insights of contemporary science and strive to protect the Earth and ensure its integrity and sustainability.
5. Commit to a path of life-long learning, believing there is more value in questioning than in absolutes.
What is Progressive Christianity?
Weekly Liturgy: Life, Death, Rebirth
Week of June 18, 2026
Father’s Day
Being a father is one of the most challenging and most rewarding roles we may ever get to take on. Live the most loving life you can, and that is what your children will learn.
Weddings
Weddings have become in many cases amazingly elaborate productions.
Benedictions
To be blessed as we leave worship and go out into the world is a lovely moment.
Life, Death, Rebirth
As we move through the Season of Spring, we are reminded of the cycle of life. This week we will focus on the life transformations that occur in life, death and rebirth- both in nature and in our own lives.
Father’s Day
Being a father is one of the most challenging and most rewarding roles we may ever get to take on. Live the most loving life you can, and that is what your children will learn.
Weddings
Weddings have become in many cases amazingly elaborate productions.
Spring Equinox: Seeds of New Life
Mother of all life, soul of our being, center of all our longing, who shines for all and flows through all, Be with us, guide us, now and always.
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Worship Materials: Spring
1. The fragrance of Spring lies not in judgement's intervention but in love's nurturing of the interior goodness. 2. Spring is not so much a moment as a movement, a manifestation of the sometimes hidden but always present life-force of God.
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Courage, Freedom and the Spring Holidays
Constituencies of two distinct religious traditions joined in and by their pasts have been engaged this week in observances honoring their shared mythology.
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Children’s Curriculum
A Joyful Path is truly progressive curriculum that is nature centered, joy-full, compassionate, and intelligent. This behavior over belief curriculum is non-dogmatic, inter-spiritual, and heart centered with an emphasis on the teachings of Jesus and how to follow them in today’s world.
