Progressive Christianity ...

I'm a major fan of ProgressiveChristianity.org, which continues the work of John Shelby Spong, retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark and a major pot-stirrer in the broad field sometimes known as, you guessed it, progressive Christianity.

So when I arose this morning and went searching for the meaning of life among my social media feeds, I picked this from that organization's Facebook feed.

It's a useful reminder that most expressions of what we call Christianity have played the power game as centuries rolled by, often using violence as a major tool. None are free from guilt and shame on this account.

The major player in the control business these days is often called evangelical, which translates from the Greek (and Latin) as "good news" --- a misapplication of the term if ever there was one.

It's good to remember that the term "Christianity" quite often has nothing at all to do with the teachings of the wandering Jewish teacher and reformer whose name has been appropriated to describe it.