Favorite liberal Christian resources?

[GreenPartyVoter]

I'm always looking for more to list on my site.

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Would Jesus love a liberal? You bet!
http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

 

[zoe_uu]

I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for but, would you welcome som BGLT Christian websites?

http://www.whosoever.org/index.shtml

http://www.gaychristians.org/

http://gaychristians.homestead.com/

http://www.gaychristian.net/

http://www.christianlesbians.com/

And there are many, many more if you wish to search for them.

 

[covenant914]

Bible
Tao te Ching
Way of Chung Tzu
Anything by:
Spong
Funk
Pagels
Armstrong
Crossan
Borg
Walsh(caution - he takes 400 pages when it should only take 100)

 

[UberLutheran]

http://www.religioustolerance.org/

and

http://www.beliefnet.com/

Religioustolerance.org is especially fine because they really strive to remain objective in their research and essays -- which drives many conservatives crazy, since so many of them believe that they, and they alone, are the sole keepers of "the truth".

 

[elanor]

Sojourners - Insightful, thought-provoking articles on faith, politics, and society - www.sojo.net

The Door Magazine (formerly the Wittenburg Door) - a great site for laughs, but perhaps a bit irreverent for some. RIP, Mike Yaconelli! http://www.thedoormagazine.com/home.html

Evangelicals for Social Action--This is the organization that Ron Sider (Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger) works so closely with.
http://www.esa-online.org/

There are some evangelists I particularly like who are committed to bringing the Good News to the poor in the inner cities and throughout the US--Tony Campolo and John Perkins. They both have websites, but I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

I also try to follow the work of:

The Carter Center: http://www.cartercenter.org/default.asp?bFlash=True

Habitat for Humanity: http://www.habitat.org/

Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/

And I think every site should link to this one! http://www.thehungersite.com

Oops! Just realized I forgot this one, and it's so timely, too. They got my donation! http://www.faithfulamerica.org/home.htm

 

[burrow_owl]

Best thread ever. I've been thinking about starting a similar one for a while. My default site is The Right Christians ("Christian Right, meet the Right Christians" goes the slogan).

Does anyone know some canonical liberal theologians? (oops, just saw the list above. rad.).

 

[GreenPartyVoter]

Thanks, folks. I'll give these a look-see.

 

[Doctrine1st]

The synoptic Gospels

 

[Texas Lynn]

In addition to good suggestions above, I am especially fond of the book Ten Wrong Things I Learned From a Conservative Church by Rev. Dr. John Killinger. He is a raconteur and tends to meander into favorite quotes and stories from his life as a pastor and theology professor, but I like that. Linear thinking is for engineers.

 

[MysteryProf]

I second Marcus Borg.

 

[chalice_thunder]

To all of you for these great resources!
This is a wonderful thread - thanks so much!!

 

[artybloke]

Linear thinking is for engineers.

Hmmmm..... I wonder if anyone has done a study into how many people from an engineering background become fundamentalists?

It's funny how many times people who have a literal view of Genesis, for instance, have an engineering degree rather than either a liberal arts or a "hard science" one.

Mind you, when I was at university, engineering students tended to be into heavy metal and showing off how hot a curry they could handle...

 

[Arnold_Philips]

They're not really resources, but blogwise:

Correction http://www.matthewsturges.com/
Real Live Preacher http://blogs.salon.com/0001772/
Religion-Related Injuries http://blogs.salon.com/0002990/
Slacktivist http://slacktivist.typepad.com/
The Ooze http://www.theooze.com/main.cfm

and of course, you can check out the links on these respective pages for more

 

[Existential1]

There's a wideness in God's Mercy like the wideness of the sea;
there's a kindness in His justice which is more than liberty...
But we make His love too narrow, with false limits of our own,
and we magnify His strictness with a zeal He will not own.
For the love of God is broader than the measure of man's mind,
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
---Frederick William Faber, 1862

Treasure trove of links. Nice.

 

[Rev. Smith]

The Center for progressicve christianity tcpc.org

 

[AlmostBandwidth]

http://www.christiansforcannabis.com

 

[paxigoth13]

Thomas JJ Altizer
Karen Armstrong
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Marcus Borg
Rudolph Bultmann
Tony Campola
John Dominic Crossan
Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Paula Fredrickson
Douglas John Hall
Elizabeth Johnson
Karen King
Hans Kung
Anne Lamott
Burton Mack
John Miles
Jurgen Moltmann
John AT Robinson
EP Sanders
Freidrich Schleiermacher
John Shelby Spong
David Strauss
Paul Tillich
Karen Jo Torjeson
Walter Wink
NT Wright

Let me know if you need more.

 

[paxigoth13]

PS. Im not a newbie, I am pacigoth recycled.

 

[Cranberry]

I didn't see it mentionned in the thread...

Ship of fools, the magazine of Christian unrest specializing in humor, satire, and popular theology. Includes news, rant of the month, religious goods, and blunders...

http://www.ship-of-fools.com/

 

[kitoba]

I think this is on-topic enough to mention in this thread

Christian Existential Humanist Web

That's my own site, and in addition to a basic theological overview it also has some essays about politics and art and science and so forth.

I've been looking for other Christian Humanist sites, but I haven't found many. I've had a little better luck with Christian Existentialism --at least people don't seem to hate the very concept quite so much...

NOTE: I don't have enough seniority to post links, but I think you can reach the site through my profile...