Recommended Reading
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Progressive Christianity

• Why Christianity Must Change or Die, John Shelby Spong

Spong refers to himself as a believer in exile. He believes the world into which Christianity was born was limited and provincial, particularly when viewed from the perspective of the progress in knowledge and technology made over the past two millennia. This makes any ideas or beliefs formulated in 1st-century Judea totally inadequate to our progressive minds and lives today. So Spong is in exile until Christianity is re-formed to discard all of the outdated and, according to Spong, false tenets of Christianity.

•  A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying and a New Faith is Being Born, John Shelby Spong

This is a follow up to Why Christianity Must Change or Die. In this work Spong begins to spell out a positive vision for a progressive Christian faith.

• Christianity for the Rest of Us, Diana Butler Bass

If you think that conservative evangelical churches are the only ones growing and thriving, this book will surprise you. Bass examines mainline progressive congregations around the country that are doing quite well by focusing on a lively spirituality, contemplation and prayer, social justice, diversity and more.

• A New Spiritual Home, Hal Taussig

A new kind of Christianity is emerging at the grassroots. Full of heart-felt expression, artistic creatiivity, and liberal social values, progressive churches and small Christian communities are springing up and taking shape around the country. The author looks at many, describes what they have in common, and suggest how to start a progressive church.