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The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
The Loft is a progressive Christian community that is unapologetically inclusive. If you're curious about what a socially and politically progressive Christianity looks like, this podcast is for you. This podcast features edited audio from our weekly Sunday gathering of people interested in following Jesus' spiritual path of radical compassion. Regardless of your race, gender, class, sexuality, or where you fall on the spectrum of belief or unbelief, you are welcome at The Loft. Their are four…
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- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
The Worm & The Whale: Jonah and the Prophetic Imagination
Jonah is one of the minor prophets, famous for living in the belly of a big fish for three days and being angry at God. But what else does his story have to…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Jeremiah & Prophetic Criticizing
Jeremiah is rightly considered one of the major prophets. He is prominent in both the Hebrew Bible and quoted extensively by Jesus and the authors of the New…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Moses - The Founding Prophet
The radical break of Moses and Israel from the Egyptian Imperial system is the foundation upon which Christianity was built. The radical actions of Moses and…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Creating Holy Disorder
The task of the prophetic community is to nurture, nourish, and evoke an alternative orthodoxy — a consciousness that sees the world differently from the…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Queering Hope
We invite you to join us as we welcome Rev. Kevin Wright who will be preaching in The Loft this Sunday while Dr. Carter is away. In his sermon Rev. Wright will…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Hope In An Apocalyptic Era
The biblical witness is a book of hope. From Abraham and Sarah through the Apostles, people of faith placed their hope in the promises of God and God's…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
How Not to Be a Bystander
Injustice is making itself visible in the streets of our city. Are we prepared to act with compassion and wisdom? Have we rehearsed our responses in a way that…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Enfleshed
In our final Sunday during Pride month, we look into Paul's letter to the Galatians, ready to liberate it from theologies and assumptions that have been used…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Queerly Beloved
Small groups were essential in the creation and maintenance of The Methodist Church. They remain the bedrock of how we sustain connectedness in our…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
TRANSubstantiation
Trans identity is more than just what pronouns you use. For Christians, trans identity pushes us to wrestle with what it means to be created in the image of…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Never Consider Unclean What God Has Made Pure
We sometimes forget that no Gentiles (i.e., non-Jewish folks) were present to receive the pouring out of the Holy Spirit during the first Pentecost. To be…
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Flesh That Needs Lovin'
That human beings are created in the image and likeness of God has been a fundamental theological pillar in the history of Christianity. However, who images…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
The Theo-Politics of Us and Them
We are living through such a period of stark political polarization that the idea of a multi-racial, pluralistic democracy feels more like an idea than a…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Grace, Redemption, & The Power of Letting Go
Life isn't fair; this is a simple lesson that we learn in childhood. However, knowing that life isn't fair doesn't necessarily make responding to life's…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Motherhood In America: No One Is Coming To Save Us
At its best, being mothering a child is likely one of the most rewarding things someone can do. And yet, the systems of society, both old and new, can make…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Celie & Esther: The Courage to Speak
Celie is a young black woman growing up in rural Georgia in the early 20th century. Esther is a young queen and Jewish woman living under Persian colonialism…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Creation Care & The Wilderness Economy
This Sunday, we're celebrating Earth Day by reflecting on and reimagining our relationship with the land. After their escape from slavery and bondage, the…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
The Kingdom of God
Throughout his entire earthly ministry, Jesus taught his followers that the kingdom of God had arrived that and now was the time for them to choose which…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Jesus & Resisting The Domination System
The Bible is both personal and political, and thus, the way of Jesus is both personal and political. The Way is a path towards personal transformation and…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Following the Way of Jesus
Like other wisdom teachers, Jesus spoke of two ways. There is a common way, the one followed by most people, and an alternative way, a path of transformation…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Jesus, Mysticism, and Social Action
The majority of Christians would probably not use the term "mystic" to describe Jesus. Many Christians, especially those of us in the West, think of mysticism…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Jesus & His Experience of God
Jesus's baptism and subsequent time alone in the desert mark the beginning of his ministry. Both events describe profound spiritual experiences of the Divine…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Jesus & The Imperial World
The context surrounding Jesus' life was complicated by an imperial domination system. The central features of Roman colonial power were that it was politically…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Who Do You Say That I Am?
After having spent time in his community preaching and teaching, Jesus asks his disciples, "Who do the people say that I am?" For those of us who grew up…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Blessed Are the Women
We know that there were women whose resources and labor enabled Jesus to travel and heal and preach. We even know some of their names: Mary Magdalene, Joanna…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Daughter Your Faith Has Healed You
This Sunday we will continue our sermon series that focuses on women in the Christian tradition and highlight the work of M. Shawn Copeland, a Black Roman…
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Hagar's Story & Black Women's Experience
For the next two Sundays, we will be highlighting the work of two pioneering black women theologians as a way of both honoring Black History Month and our…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
What Would a World Look Like if You Felt You Were Believed?
Throughout the gospels, we see both men and women sharing stories about Jesus' ministry and his miracles. Yet, it was only when women were sharing his message…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
What Would Happen If We Believed Women?
Throughout the gospels, we see both men and women sharing stories about Jesus' ministry and his miracles. Yet, it was only when women were sharing his message…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Mary: The Revolutionary
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is often portrayed in art as a meek, mild-mannered woman who happens to be Jesus' mother. However, a closer look at her words in the…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Re-imagining Eve – The Mother of Creation
Interpreting Eve's actions in the Garden of Eden as having doomed all humanity is perhaps the foundational claim used by many Christians to uphold patriarchy…
The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast FormL.A. - Where We All Live - Is On Fire
This is a special crossover posting from the Progressive Christians Podcast, hosted by Rev. Dr. Carter. Los Angeles is suffering from a historical fire…
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The Road Isn't Straight
Too often, we've been told that a successful life is a linear one. But in reality, our lives unfold with many unexpected twists and turns. The Magi follow a…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
We Are The Answer To Our Ancestor's Prayers
After eight days have passed, Mary and Joseph circumcise their child and give him the name Jesus. They return to the temple in Jerusalem to enact the sacred…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Do The Good That Is Yours To Do
As John the Baptist teaches about bearing good fruit, the crowds, tax collectors, and soldiers ask him, "What, then, should we do?" His answer to each group…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
We Can't Go Alone
One of life's most essential lessons is that we are never meant to go alone. And yet, modern culture pushes us more and more into lonely silos. Our scriptures…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
On Not Being Afraid
When Mary encounters the angel of the Lord, the angel reminds Mary that God favors her and exhorts her not to be afraid. To be sure, fear would be a natural…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
How We Share
Parents spend countless hours teaching their children about the importance of sharing, it is a lesson we struggle to fully comprehend even in adulthood. In…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
How We Heal
In times of unrest, Jesus often responded by tending to his immediate needs and those of his community before deciding what to do. As we emerge from this…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
The 'Big Lies' of Christian Nationalism
The gospels tell us that Jesus practiced nonviolence and taught his followers to expand their preconceived ideas about who was welcome at God's table. Despite…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Unmasking Loneliness: Building a Culture of Connection
What role should churches, and specifically our church, play in addressing the challenges of loneliness in our faith community? We invite you to join us for…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Unmasking Loneliness: The Community We Mean To Have
We all want to be accepted and belong to a supportive circle of friends. However, our desire for relationships and community are often in conflict with what we…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Unmasking Loneliness: Better Together
What does it mean to be someone's friend? How does friendship expand our experience of the Divine? As humans, we all need the social connection of friendship…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Unmasking Loneliness: Connecting from the Inside Out
For those of us who struggle with loneliness, the obvious "solution" to our challenge would be to go and spend time with people. If only it were that easy…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Unmasking Loneliness
Rugged individualism and self-determination are among the core values that dominate American culture. These values have simultaneously incentivized many of us…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Guidelines for Compassionate Actions
Jesus' spiritual path is centered on love, and we embody love through actions that aim to ease the suffering and promote the flourishing of all life…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: How To Love The Neighbors You Don't Like
Jesus' way of radical compassion is, in fact, radical. In his parables on forgiveness and love, he encourages his followers to forgive those who have wronged…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Compassionate Connections
Jesus' path of radical compassion is not limited to grounding ourselves in the truth of our belovedness and recovering our compassionate core. In its truest…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Fierce Self-Compassion
Compassion can be misunderstood as mere tenderness or sentimentality. Self-compassion moves us to ask ourselves, "What do I need to help alleviate my…
The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast FormWhat does a progressive Christian masculinity look like? - The Progressive Christians Podcast
The speeches of Dough Emhoff, President Barack Obama, and Gov. Tim Walls gave us a very different portrayal of masculinity and, unsurprisingly, raised the…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Compassion and Healing
The cultivation of compassion is a process of recovery—of retrieving the compassionate instinct that has become buried and obscured, either in the moment or…
The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast FormThe Black Church Shows Up To The DNC - The Progressive Christians Podcast
The persuasive power of the Black Church tradition has been center stage during the first two days of the Democratic National Convention. The speeches of…
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Loft Gathering: Recovering Our Compassionate Core
The cultivation of compassion is a process of recovery—of retrieving the compassionate instinct that has become buried and obscured, either in the moment or…
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Loft Gathering: Grounded In Our Truth
Jesus' spiritual path of compassion invites us to stay grounded in the truth of our belovedness. But all too often we become disconnected from this truth and…
The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast FormThe Progressive Christians Podcast - Living Single…and being shamed for it.
The Loft Conversations podcast has now become The Progressive Christians Podcast - and has its own podcast feed. So please subscribe to the new feed to keep up…
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Loft Gathering: Christianity: A Spiritual Path of Transformative Compassion
To practice a Christianity that models itself after Jesus' teachings is to follow a spiritual path of transformative compassion. Indeed, compassion was…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Rev. Dr. Kyle Eugene Brooks
This Sunday, Dr. Kyle Brooks leads us in an exploration of Ephesians 3:14-21, with emphasis on the 20th verse–which speaks to how God's power within us enables…
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Loft Gathering: Rev. Blair Trygstad Stowe
We are pleased to welcome Rev. Blair Trygstad Stowe back to the Loft, to lead us further into a conversation about what evangelism can look like in our…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: The 9 to 5 Christian
Believe it or not, there is a business story in the Bible. It's about this small business that got $0 in revenue one night…until something happened and revenue…
- The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form
Loft Gathering: Guest Preacher - Rev. Blair Trygstad-Stowe
We're continuing our summer series of guest speakers and are excited to welcome Rev. Blair Trygstad-Stowe to The Loft. www.TheLoftLA.org