Category: Jesus
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Lent and COVID 19
Progressive Christian Social Action Lent and Covid 19 This Lenten season is unlike any other I have lived through, with the threat of serious illness and death all around, businesses shuttered, people losing their jobs, the stock market crashing, social isolation, and responsibilities that people don’t know how they can meet. So many of us…
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Lent: Going Deeper
Progressive Christian Social Action Lent: Going Deeper This post was published at the beginning of Lent in 2017 as “A Lenten Call to Resist.” It is the first post of a Lenten series that offers a progressive Christian understanding of Jesus’ life, death, and post-death appearances. The links to the other posts in the series…
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Area United Methodist Clergy Speak Out in Support of LGBTQIA People
Progressive Christian Social Action Area United Methodist Clergy Speak Out in Support of LGBTQIA People (This statement is in the Grass Valley Union newspaper on March 13, 2019: https://www.theunion.com/opinion/columns/other-voices-western-nevada-countys-united-methodist-clergy-speak-out-in-support-of-lgbtqia/. It was drafted and signed by 15 Nevada County clergy, including me.) We, the undersigned, are ordained clergy members of the United Methodist Church. We…
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Love the Immigrant as Yourself
Progressive Christian Social Action Love the Immigrant as Yourself “you shall love the immigrant as yourself…” Leviticus 19: 34 As tears flow around the country and world for immigrant children who have been separated and incarcerated by the Trump Administration, support for the president’s harsh policies among white Evangelicals continues. Even politicians and TV news…
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Lent: A Call to Resist
Progressive Christian Social Action Lent: A Call to Resist This post was published at the beginning of Lent last year, 2017, as “A Lenten Call to Resist.” It is the first post of a Lenten series that offers a progressive Christian understanding of Jesus’ life, death, and post-death appearances. The links to the other posts…
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Hearts and Ashes
Progressive Christian Social Action Hearts and Ashes Today is both Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. I usually observe both. My mother Ruth’s birthday was on February 14, so I’ll be carrying her with me all day (as I often do). This evening, I’ll go with two of my granddaughters while…
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Follow the Light
Today at church we celebrated Epiphany, remembering the story of the wise ones who followed a star, traveling a great distance to bring gifts to honor the Christ Child. The “star” that they followed is a symbol for the light of Christ that can help us find our way through the violence, confusion, and distractions…
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My New Book is Out!
Progressive Christian Social Action My New Book is Out! Hello friends. I’m happy to announce that my new book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, has finally been released. I’m delighted with how it turned out and thrilled to be holding copies in my hand. It will be available in local bookstores here in Nevada…
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Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right
Progressive Christian Social Action Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right Note: This article includes excerpts from my book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, to be released by Fortress Press in July. Like many of you, I am appalled by many things that Donald Trump has said and done in the first months of…
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Introducing Love in a Time of Climate Change
Progressive Christian Social Action Blog Love in a Time of Climate Change Hello Friends, Today I am introducing my soon-to-be released book, Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice. It offers a progressive Christian approach to climate change that takes climate science seriously. It is based on the core teachings of…