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Four new book reviews from Kym Bills on our Book Reviews page https://wordpress.com/page/pcnetsa.org/161 David A, Kaden, Christianity in Blue: How the Bible, History, Philosophy, and Theology Shape Progressive Identity, Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2021, 187pp. Randal Rauser, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: A Response to Alisa Childers (and the heresy hunters), 2 Cup Press, Canada, 2022, 178pp. Bruce Sanguin, The Way of the Wind: The Path and Practice of Evolutionary Christian Mysticism, Viriditas Press, Vancouver, British Colombia, 2015, 174pp. Sally Douglas, Jesus Sophia: Returning to ..read more

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The Progressive Christianity Network of South Australia (PCNet) is pleased to launch the 2024 series of the Progressive Christianity Forum (the newly titled successor to Seminary of the 3rd Age) at 7.00pm next Thursday 1 February at the Effective Living Centre, 26 King William Road, Wayville SA. The Forum will be launched by Rev Dr Sean Gilbert, speaking about Wisdom – positing that acquired religious knowledge can readily become a badge of honour, therefore a barrier to genuine conversation. Wisdom, on the other hand, depends upon a depth of attentiveness and a deep listening with the “ear o ..read more

Fergus McGinley January 2024 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AMONG YOU No, not “within you”. That’s the title of the famous philosophical work by Tolstoy, which I haven’t read (try Resurrection, the gripping story of the aristocrat Nekhlyudov who follows his former servant Katyusha to prison in Siberia in remorse for his terrible exploitation of her years before – a book I have read – for a fictional account of Tolstoy’s wonderful philosophy). It’s also the King James translation of Luke 17:21: “ ….. neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” The Greek ..read more

Rev Glynn Cardy, St Lukes Community, Remuera New Zealand https://www.stlukes.org.nz/spirituality/what-is-spirituality I suggest in our 21st century antipodean context that, if we use the God word at all, we should use it playfully, attaching weak as well as strong metaphors to it, gender-bending it, upside-downing it, spelling it differently, all in order to declare that whatever we say about god is provisional, our best guess, our glimpse, and certainly not something to bank on, or defend to the death, or clobber another with.  And not something we would use to make a law or an ethical ..read more

Two new book reviews from Kym Bills on our Book Reviews page https://wordpress.com/page/pcnetsa.org/161 Rebekka King, The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity. 
New York University Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781479836147 Sarah Agnew, Embodied Performance: Mutuality, Embrace, and the Letter to Rome. 
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“Progressive theology is to my mind simply walking outside the theological nest we were nurtured in, noticing how large the spiritual world is, finding anew the place of that nest in it, and discovering new friends.  It is about expanding the mind, the heart, and the imagination into the vastness of the Divine. “ Glynn Cardy, St Lukes New Zealand http://www.stlukes.org.nz/about-us/our-values-commitments ..read more

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