Why Isn’t Ferguson the Start of a New Civil Rights Movement?
The news out of Ferguson has been dominated by discussions of police brutality and the…
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A Great Gulf Fixed: Implications of the Vanishing Religious Middle
Results of a new poll show that in matters of religion the right and left are in different universes. Why, then, are progressives so insistent on finding common ground?
Read MoreResponse: We Might Need the End of Progressive Christianity
In 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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“God Needs You To Get Out of the Bubble”: Riverside Controversy Exposes Theological, Racial Fault Lines of the Christian Progressive Movement
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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Dispatches From the Beltway: Horton Hears Progressive Religion
With the success of We Believe Ohio et al., progressive religious voices are breaking through…
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How Much is a (Progressive) Pastor Worth?
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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Good Friday and Purim: Non-Harmonic Convergences
Collision on the interfaith highway…
Read MoreLiberal Evangelicals Growing, Unlike Their Coverage
To get the story right, reporters will need to ask the right questions.
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