Saving Progressive Christianity to Save the Planet

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Calling for a faith that lives by what it affirms not just by what it denies this book outlines a positive engaging message supported by active spiritual practices and carried out in action for a better community and planet.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>In doing so Bruce Epperly calls for rethinking and reviving many Christian themes often neglected or discarded in progressive Christianity to help carry out this mission.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Among these themes are:</span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Mystical experience and vision</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Spiritual healing</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Genuine dialog</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Reclaiming a relationship with Jesus</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Reclaiming and affirming the work of the Holy Spirit</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Practicing God's kindom and peace rather than an expectation of doom</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Being witnesses in the world</span></li><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>Speaking and acting prophetically bringing hope</span></li></ol><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>In bringing life to these themes Epperly looks to Jesus and to scripture without demeaning other faiths. He evokes a relational non-coercive God as the foundation of a relational and non-coercive presence in the world.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(74 85 104 1)>This book will provide both a challenge and a hope to progressive congregations especially those struggling with diminishing numbers but it will also provide an excellent antidote to the charge that progressive Christianity is not an affirmative active and hopeful faith.</span></p><p><br></p>