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The Progressive Christian Alliance is a Christian denomination for a post-denominational age. This EmailMagazine is a publication by members of the PCA for the PCA and the wider Christian, post-christian, and seeker audience.
It is hoped that this will be a regular publication, featuring contributions by a wide array of PCA members, affiliates and allies. This will be a place for community news, worshipping resources, theological reflection and communication from Council and Conference.
HIS Most Gracious Rule as I prepared for today's Spiritual Reflections - I wondered does anyone actually know what the Most Gracious Rule is, and if so why aren't we all following it... as I understand it – it goes something like this - “to Love as HE has Loved us” how much harder could that be, with the very same Grace given to us – by extending Grace just as we have been given and even more so when we may feel like doing otherwise... then and only then can we find HIS WORD upon our... Read Full Story
Why the Pro-Life Movement Should Support Health Care Reform Much has been made of Congressman Cao's recent cross-party vote to support the health care reform bill that was passed by the House of Representatives this week, but Cao has been on the side of our health ever since his election. In fact, as a recipient of his e-mail newsletter (you can sign up on his website ), I have personally received no less than 5 messages in the last 2 months from his office directly related to health care... Read Full Story
So what is that costing you... do you know? Recently I was made aware or reminded of the fact that membership had/has it's costs... to the local church, the covering body and the ultimate – Christs Universal Church... and as members (we have/there comes) certain responsibilities – financially & morally, individually & collectively... and so I was wondering “whats is that costing you”... do you know? & “is it worth it”... (what do you get in return?) Is it... a temporal or eternal reward... Read Full Story
I am begining a journey of developing a Progressive Christian Community here in Richmond,VA. Check out ReviveUS! Home - ReviveUS! for my sidebar page for Shelter Community Church and the attachments describing it. please feel free to add to these and share in these vision statements "What a Progressive Christian Church looks Like?" Peace and Grace to all, Pastor Colin Read Full Story
The views on Ordination here in do not speak to the realities of ordination in the PCA. Instead it is an introduction to conversation on the nature of ordination and its role in the our lives.
1. Toward a Theology of the Laity
I am often asked by my seminary and church colleagues if I feel limited in my calling by not pursuing the path of ordination. The tragedy of such a question is that it misses an important reality of the life of the laity in the church: they are already ordained by... Read Full Story
There have been discussions recently among Progressive Christians about what does (or should) ministry include. The question is being posed a bit incorrectly. The question should be “What does ministry NOT include?” Because when we begin to think about it from this vantage point, we start to realize that there are no good works, no vocations, and no discussions that are beyond the province of Progressive Christian Ministry. Let’s return again to Henry David Thoreau. The famous 19th century... Read Full Story
What an AWESOME & MIGHTY GOD we serve... Just when I thought we didn't have anything to contribute this Month - we recieved from our Brothers and Sisters in Kenya the following emails...
RE: PACKAGE OF THE BIBLES RECEIVED
Greetings today in the name of the Lord. hallelujah!The Lord is good to all, and His tender mercies are over all His works. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in fullest measure.I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for your always fervent prayers to me... Read Full Story
The following are provided as a resource for worship, corporate and private. The worship of the PCA is wonderfully diverse, and as time goes by we will learn ways to maintain and share our differences and create unique forms signifiant to us. Feel free to use these. Their inclusion here does not imply support by the PCA or Open Table.
Progressive Christian Alliance Statement of Faith:
We believe in God,
whose love is the source of all life
and the desire of our lives
whose love was... Read Full Story
Embracing the margins. From the inception of the Progressive Christian Alliance, we have had a vision for reaching out to “the least, the lost, the left behind, and those for whom religion has become irrelevant. We see this position to be very much in line with the teachings of Jesus, teachings that have sadly fallen into neglect. The Church has often become such an institution that it spends more time and resources maintaining itself than reaching into the world beyond itself. As... Read Full Story
Pro-Life or Life-Positive
The Leadership Council in association with Theologian-In-Affiliation Jason Derr have released the following statement, encouraging a move away from a strict pro-life positions to ones that are Life-Positive, affirming the goodness of not only the unborn, but of poor, rape and incest victims, the earth and those facing the hell of war.
Pro-life or Life Positive?
For many decades much of the Christian conversation in the political arena has centered on the... Read Full Story
