Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs

of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits, and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness,

and truth.

Now, we spend quite a bit of time on this podcast discussing the movement of progressive Christianity

and how we can interact with it from a biblical worldview, from a perspective of wanting to

live our lives under the authority of God's Word.

So we've talked about it from a theological perspective, but today we're going to discuss

the common themes, the common values that you're going to see expressed across a broad

spectrum of different progressive Christian thought leaders.

So I'm going to have my friend Natasha Crane join me.

Actually, this episode that we recorded originally was for her podcast.

So it originally aired on the Natasha Crane podcast.

Really want to encourage you to go to the Natasha Crane podcast, subscribe.

Natasha is one of my favorite thinkers.

I think she's absolutely just sharp and wise in all of her cultural insights, but she also

knows quite a bit about progressive Christianity as well.

So a while back, we decided that we were going to pick a case study type book to read

together and review.

And so we chose a book by a progressive pastor and author named John Pavlovitz and the

book is called If God Is Love Don't Be a Jerk.

Being a Faith That Makes Us Better Humans.

And this is a book that came out, I believe last year.

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