Religion Dispatches
Not only are claims that the religious left is “on the rise” as old as the contemporary religious right itself, but the framing of the religious left may actually further enable the religious right.
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Last month, author, activist and Christian leader Shane Claiborne, who self-identifies as “progressive,” was asked to…
Read MoreIs the Spirit moving in Christianity, or will “Progressive Christianity” be last year’s handbag?
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Was Dr. Braxton “too black” for Riverside Church? Progressive Christianity’s salvation may rest in the hands of the stereotypically primitive and cathartic world of non-white and non-mainline churches.
Read MoreIn response to today’s roundtable on Rev. Braxton’s abrupt departure from Riverside and the crisis in Progressive Christianity, Rita Brock sees little hope in the Church as it stands.
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What does it mean that Rhodes Scholar and Progressive Evangelical Brad Braxton resigned as senior pastor of the influential Riverside Church? In this discussion over the implications, a reverend and a scholar ask whether multiracial churches require making white people comfortable, why God needs liberal protestants to get out of the bubble, and what the future holds for the mainline church as a whole.
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When New York City’s fabled Riverside Church brought in a new, evangelical pastor with a pay package of $600K it made roaring headlines and sparked a lawsuit. Our writer attended the Sunday service and reports back on the “controversy.”
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Christians should neither excoriate Israel nor remain silent in the face of horrendous attacks in Gaza and elsewhere. Rather, according to Rev. Laarman, American Christians must heed King and make the issue about US policy and the kind of nation we aspire to be.
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