JIM BURKLO writes and speaks about the progressive Christian movement. He is the Associate Dean of Religious Life at the University of Southern California. He served as the minister of Sausalito Presbyterian Church, Sausalito, CA, of College Heights Church of San Mateo, CA and was campus minister of United Campus Christian Ministry at Stanford University. He was the organizer and executive director of the Urban Ministry of Palo Alto.

Jim Burklo's SPEAKING SCHEDULE

BIRDLIKE AND BARNLESS: Meditations, Prayers, and Songs for Progressive Christians - by Jim Burklo - order now...

Ready for a humble, hard-working Christian religion that is progressive, pro-justice, and pro-peace? Ready for faith that takes the Bible seriously because it doesn't take it literally? Ready for a soulful expression of this kind of Christianity in meditative prose, poetry, ritual, and song? Ready to empty the barn of dusty dogma, and take wing with soulful celebration? Jim Burklo, author of OPEN CHRISTIANITY (St Johann Press, 2000), still used as a text by study groups around the world as an introduction to progressive faith, has produced a jewel of a new book. It is a rich devotional resource for individuals, and a treasure-trove of fresh material for churches to use in worship and programming. His personal reflections lead the reader on a spiritual path from the contemplative to the comic, from tender moments to prophetic exhortations, from analysis to inspiration. His new lyrics to old hymns offer poetic antidotes to outdated theology. His prayers move readers, both Christian and non-Christian, beyond supernaturalism and into the heart of mystical experience. His liturgies bust out of the barn of stodgy worship. They buzz with the word that the listeners heard when Jesus pointed at the birds in his Sermon on the Mount. It's word jazz, it's bird jazz; it's BIRDLIKE AND BARNLESS: Meditations, Prayers, and Songs for Progressive Christians (St Johann Press: 2008)

OPEN CHRISTIANITY invites you to love God and your neighbor as Jesus did, and to let go of any religious doctrine that blocks love's way. Open Christianity invites you to follow Jesus' way of loving even the unlovable, without needing to believe the unbelievable. It looks at Christianity as a living, changing language of the heart and soul. The book and this website are windows into this emerging, progressive form of the faith. Order OPEN CHRISTIANITY (published by St Johann Press) through The Center for Progressive Christianity.

MUSINGS by Jim Burklo - weekly weblog - contact Jim to ask to receive each new article by email

ARTICLE: What Is Progressive Christianity?

OPEN CHRISTIANITY BOOK STUDY QUESTIONS: OPEN CHRISTIANITY

BREAD AND ASPHALT by Jim Burklo - book re: homelessness

STATIONS OF THE CROSS by Jim Burklo - a fresh interpretation of an old tradition

THE FOUR SPIRITUAL AWES : Jim Burklo's new "tract" for initiation to the spiritual quest

KIDSOUL : Jim Burklo's new pages for parents and kids - interfaith spiritual education for young people

ARTICLES ON ECO-SPIRITUALITY by Jim Burklo

WEDDING GUIDE by Jim Burklo - for couples to use in preparing for weddings

MEDITATION GUIDE by Jim Burklo and Jim Garrison

Meditation Cards by Jim Garrison -- jgarr@csus.com to order this or other meditation cards

MEDITATION IMAGES by Jim Burklo

Jim Burklo

LINKS:
The Center for Progressive Christianity

Jim Burklo

United Church of Christ Revised Standard Version of the Bible - Passage Locator Progressive Christians Uniting

United Church of Christ
Revised Standard Version of the Bible - Passage Locator
Progressive Christians Uniting