The Progressive Sacred

 We are currently experiencing Holy Week which will end in the big event... Easter! One of  Christianity’s biggest events and the crew here at TPS wants to celebrate with you! Easter is a time of celebration but my friends… we ask.. are we missing out on the fullness of the season? Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week…?  All these events lead up to that glorious day when many get to shout out all the Hallelujahs they’ve been holding back! 

Here at the Progressive sacred the crew has set up a two parter episode in which we will go over what the events leading up to Easter may look like and give our personal experience with them. Join us here in part two… and thanks for checking out part 1, if you haven't you can always go back!

#Progressive, #ProgressiveChristianity, #Easter

It appears that we are around the corner from one of Christianity’s biggest events and the crew here at TPS wants to celebrate with you! Easter is a time of celebration but my friends… we ask.. are we missing out on the fullness of the season? Ash Wednesday, Lent, Holy Week…?  All these events lead up to that glorious day when many get to shout out all the Hallelujahs they’ve been holding back! 

Here at the Progressive sacred the crew has set up a two parter episode in which we will go over what the events leading up to Easter may look like and give our personal experience with them. Join us here in part one… and come back for part 2.

#Progressive, #ProgressiveChristianity, #Easter

Week 4 of our Advent series continues. Lets journey together as we follow different messages given during this time around the birth of Jesus. On this Fourth week of advent we will light the candle of Love and listen to the angels message to the shepherds. What does love mean and how is it that we all have such a different perception of love? As we wait in the Advent season how are we shaping the way we love in a way that resembles the love shown by the Christ to come?  Join us every week during advent for a new message and we look forward to rejoicing together on that joyous Christmas day as we celebrate the coming of Jesus. 
#Advent #Hope #Peace #joy #love #Joseph #Mary #Christianity #Progressive #angels

This Advent season we continue to journey together as we follow different messages given during this time around the birth of Jesus. On this Third week of advent we will light the candle of Joy and listen to the decree from the Roman Government. Can joy come through hard situations? Was the treacherous journey Mary and Joseph embarked joyous or is it a hard trek to endure which will lead to a rich more in depth meaning of joy?  Join us every week during advent for a new message and we look forward to rejoicing together on that joyous Christmas day as we celebrate the coming of Jesus. 
#Advent #Hope #Peace #joy #Joseph #Mary #Christianity #Progressive  

This Advent season we continue to journey together as we follow different messages given during this time around the birth of Jesus. On this second week of advent we will light the candle of Peace and listen to the message Joseph was given in a dream by an angel. How will the announcement to take Mary as his wife bring a message of Peace into  our lives this season? Join us every week during advent for a new message and we look forward to rejoicing together on that joyous Christmas day as we celebrate the coming of Jesus. 
#Advent #Hope #Peace #Joseph #Mary #Christianity #Progressive #Itcameupon 

This Advent season we will journey together as we follow different messages given during this time around the birth of Jesus. On the first week of advent we will light the candle of Hope and listen to the message Mary was given by the angel  Gabriel. How will the announcement of Jesus to Mary bring a message of hope into  our homes this season? Join us every week during advent for a new message and we look forward to rejoicing together on that joyous Christmas day as we celebrate the coming of Jesus. 
#Advent #Hope #Mary #Christianity #Progressive #MaryDidYouKnow 

Should women be ordained to leadership in the church? Heavens yes! God appointed women to positions of leadership--the prophet Miriam, the judge Deborah, the disciples Joanna and Susanna--so why are there so many denominations that won't ordain women? Join the conversation. We will be speaking with our resident feminist Bible scholar, Dr. Jenn Bird, about this question. She offers a new and surprising take on Jesus' relationship to Mary and Martha plus so much more. 

We are back with part 2 of our Science and Faith series! Can you love both science and God? Can you be religious and reasonable too? Many people assume that to be religious is to reject science. But we believe otherwise--that science is a gift from God who gives us the powers of reason and observation that science uses to make the world a better place. In this episode, we talk with Karl Giberson, PhD. Karl is a physicist who has written numerous books on science and religion such as The Wonder of the Universe, Seven Glorious Days, and Saving the Original Sinner. Celebrating both mainstream science and a deep progressive faith, Karl has always experienced his love for science as a calling from God.

Can you love both science and God? Can you be religious and reasonable too? Today, many people assume that to be religious is to reject science. But we believe otherwise--that science is a gift from God who gives us the powers of reason and observation that science uses to make the world a better place. In this episode, we talk with Karl Giberson, PhD. Karl is a physicist who has written numerous books on science and religion such as The Wonder of the Universe, Seven Glorious Days, and Saving the Original Sinner. Celebrating both mainstream science and a deep progressive faith, Karl has always experienced his love for science as a calling from God.

Are we cultivating communities which are loving, diverse and inclusive? What can we learn from Jesus' teaching in the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10:25-37?
Join us in this episode as we hear from our special guest Emelda De Coteau from the "Pray With Our Feet" podcast and dive into topics of  racial injustice and how we can reconcile and attempt to be better neighbors.
We have packed this episode with extra flavor so get ready, put on your dancing shoes and let's show the world that we can show love, mercy and compassion towards others!

About Emelda:
Emelda leads Pray with Our Feet, an online community lifting up the intersection of progressive Christian faith and social justice. She co-hosts the PWF podcast with her Mom, Trudy. Emelda serves as the founder of Women Creatives Chat, a community centering wellness and empowerment for creative mompreneurs  through events (both online and live), workshops, and mindful products and services. She also writes about wellness, holistic healing practices and social justice for Good Life Detroit,  Modestine Tea and Breaking the Silence…Healing the Pain. 

@PrayWithOurFeet on IG, FB and Twitter

@WomenCreativesChat on IG & FB

Other shout outs and special mentions: 
Greg Woodsbie, music composition for "Mi Vecindario" 
Rev. Kelsey Beebe from "The Lady Preacher Podcast" 

Thanks y'all! 

What was Jesus about? Was he trying to start an exclusive club or was he trying to create a new world of inclusivity? These questions have dogged Christianity for millennia. Some Christians insist that God’s love is exclusive, so that only certain types of believers are saved. Scriptures such as John 14.6, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” are often used as a tribalist form of salvation.  

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus mission and ministry is depicted differently. Jesus doesn’t see himself as an inclusive club leader, instead he interprets his work as liberating and prophetic. At the very beginning of his preaching career, Jesus declares:

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,

    because he has anointed me

        to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives

    and recovery of sight to the blind,

        to let the oppressed go free.” -Luke 4:18

How has the elevation of one exclusivist Bible passage (John 14.6) distorted the way we perceive Christianity and even Jesus himself? How would our faith change if Jesus’ message of liberation (Luke 4:18-19) was plastered on billboards instead? Join The Progressive Sacred for a conversation about Jesus and the church, about universalism and tribalism, and how we can reclaim Jesus’ radical love.

Have you ever seen the memes that claim Jesus was a socialist? Or did you hear what the current Pope said one Christmas Eve, “Today we say thou shalt not to an economy of exclusion and inequality”?  Jesus wasn’t a part of any political party nor did he elevate one economic theory over the next. Yet he did challenge socio-cultural structures and embraced change. Listen in as the PTJ crew joined by guest Brian Hughes talk as to why we claim Jesus was and is a progressive. 

Do you think that the words "progressive" and "Christianity" don't go together? If you do, then that's probably because conservative Christianity has dominated our media for decades. But the truth is that the Christian church in America has always been at the forefront of progressive social movements including abolition, labor, civil rights, and environmentalism, just to name a few. Learn what the progressive Christian movement looks like today and how it is more inclusive and far reaching than you would imagine. 

In this episode we also give a special shout out to progressivechristianity.org so click the link and check them out!

A Preacher, a theologian, and a guy named Julio walk into a bar….

Meet the three people who make up the PTJ Crew. That would be the Preacher (Abby), the Theologian (Jon Paul) and a guy named Julio. Somehow these three folks have decided that working on a podcast together on progressive topics is exactly what they  need to be doing. But how and why is something more complicated to explain. Listen to this podcast to learn a bit more behind the origin of this crew and the development of the Progressive Sacred.