By Jonathan Luevano Felix What is Chicano? What does it mean to be a Mexican-American person in Central California? Once we realize the existential condition, then the social-political cultural [...] Continue Reading
Religion & Philosophy
Progressive Religion is Not an Oxymoron – December 2012: The Story of How Jesus Was in Opposition to the Empire—Just in Time for Christmas!
By David E. Roy The season is upon us! Of course, this really is the season for merchants, this being the old, quaint name for the hyper-skilled marketers of today. I’ve suggested previously that we [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Holidays and Other Disasters
By George B. Kauffman Holidays and Other Disasters by John G. Rodwan, Jr., considers the major U.S. holidays from an atheist’s perspective. It specifically examines religious holidays, those that [...] Continue Reading
Collaboration and Contradictions: Can Progressive Groups Work Together?
By Richard Stone On Aug. 21, a meeting was co-hosted by the Fresno Partnership and Fresno Metro Ministry to explore possibilities of wider collaboration. An expansive array of groups was [...] Continue Reading
The Ultimate Progressive Conference: Progressive Religion October 2014
By David E. Roy A major Earth-saving Event, slowly being assembled at Pomona College in Claremont, will be launched on June 3, 2015. The overall purpose and many of the topics are exceptionally [...] Continue Reading
Mideast Extremism Requires New Progressive Response
By Paul Pierce, Patience Milrod and Darrow Pierce As we write this, it is Saturday evening, July 26. Earlier today, Israel extended a 12-hour ceasefire by four hours. Hamas has responded by firing [...] Continue Reading
Hobby Lobby Caught Hobnobbing with SCOTUS Elite While the Bill of Rights Was Left Out in the Cold — Progressive Religion August 2014
By David E. Roy At the end of June, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark 5-4 ruling that determined it was the “right” of the owners of the “closed corporation” Hobby Lobby to choose not to [...] Continue Reading
Shared Humanity
By Faith in Community There has been much press about the lists on which Fresno appears. Many of our neighborhoods suffer from the nation’s worst concentrated poverty and are most at risk in [...] Continue Reading
Excerpt from Expanding the Yaqui Religious Experience (1989)
By Jesse C. Gonzales “In the beginning...God,” to those who follow Judeo, Christian and Islamic beliefs, that passage is an introduction to the answers that can satisfy many questions concerning [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion is Not and Oxymoron: Part II: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy Introduction to Part II Last month in Part I, the focus was primarily on the foreground battles progressives are fighting on numerous fronts to vocally “stand our ground” against the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: A Tale about Buffoons, the Pope and a Stealth Attempt at World Domination
By David E. Roy, Ph.D. Most progressives are beyond tired of hearing how bad old government only interferes with universally good business, the boon of humankind. The opposition, ostensibly [...] Continue Reading
The Lavender Convention 2014
By Chris Jarvis As we all know, there’s a vault of hard feelings between many in the LGBT community and religious institutions. It goes back to the dawn of time and despite our recent gains in [...] Continue Reading