In a world beset by unstable institutions and changing bedrocks and assumptions, we need a faith that teaches us how to adapt and change to meet the challenges of different eras. Listening to how God speaks through time, and watching the ways God's people have changed themselves and their faith helps us to find new ways to be faithful in our own context.

Progressive Christian Theology means learning from the stories in the Bible that life is complicated and messy, and that the only thing in front of us is to understand the people that present themselves and find ways to help them be whole.

Even before Pentecost, Jesus told his disciples that they'd have to do the work of building his ministry in the world. As a welcoming church family, we recognize that the people we encounter make us grow as much as they make the church grow.

The story of Thomas's encounter with the risen Christ shows us not only what our own reactions to good news can often look like, but the hope that there is always time and opportunity for us, too. No matter what we think we've missed.

Christ is Risen! In a new body that reminds us resurrection is not restoration, but the beginning of something new.

Christ enters Jerusalem in community. He exists with God and the Holy Spirit in the community of the Trinity. And we exist in community with them and with one another. As we conclude our series Merely Christian, we reflect on the necessity of community to understanding Christ.

What does morality demand of us that come into a windfall? What does it demand of us in our interaction with others? And how do we square our grand idea for where we are going with the choices that confront us daily?

Christians believe a lot of things. That's part of the deal with having free will. Central among them all is that something miraculous happened on the cross. We may not fully understand what, or how, but the world changed underneath our feet.

As we continue our theme of Merely Christian, we look at what Jesus says about people who reassure themselves that they are good people because they are, at least, better than others.

C.S. Lewis starts Mere Christianity by laying the groundwork for all religion: is there some morality outside ourselves? How might this question be illustrated in this story of Jesus feeding the 5000?