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Below is a list of books we think you’ll enjoy – most recently published first.

Suggestions from ProgressiveChristianity.org of books for people wanting to learn more about progressive Christianity: Books to get you started.

Author	Title	Year
Hunt, R A E (Rex)	Seasons and Self: Discourses on Being ‘at home’ in Nature	2018
White, Bronwyn Angela	Something new to say: words of spirit, faith and celebration for Advent and Christmas	2018
Borg, Marcus	Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century	2017
Burklo, Jim	Mindful Christianity	2017
Butler Bass, Diana	Strength for the Journey: A Pilgrimage of Faith in Community	2017
Chesnut, Lon B	A Devotional for Progressive Christians	2016
Hunt, R A E (Rex)	When Progressives Gather Together: Liturgy, Lectionary, Landscape… And Other Explorations	2016
Spong, John Shelby	Biblical Literalism: A Gentile Heresy: A Journey into a New Christianity Through the Doorway of Matthew’s Gospel	2016
Butler Bass, Diana	Grounded: Finding God in the World. A Spiritual Revolution	2015
Crossan, John Dominic	Jesus and the Violence of Scripture: How to Read the Bible and Still be a Christian	2015
Geering, Lloyd	Tomorrow’s God: How We Create Our Worlds	2015
Smith, John W H and Rex A E Hunt	New Life: Rediscovering Faith: Stories from Progressive Christians	2015
Borg, Marcus	Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most	2014
Geering, Lloyd	The Faith Journey of a Modern Heretic Reimagining God	2014
Hunt, R A E (Rex)	Cards, Carols, and Claus. Christmas in Popular Culture and Progressive Christianity.	2014
Hunt, Rex and Gregory Jenks (editors)	Wisdom & Imagination: Religious Progressives and the Search for Meaning	2014
Sanguin, Bruce	The Emerging Church (revised and expanded edition)	2014
Morwood, Michael	It’s Time: Challenges to the Doctrine of the Faith	2013
Crossan, John Dominic	The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus	2012
Felton, David and Jeff Procter-Murphy	Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity	2012
Hunt R A E & J W H Smith (editors)	Why Weren’t We Told? A Handbook on ‘progressive’ Christianity.	2012
Hunt, R A E (Rex)	Against the Stream. Progressive Christianity between Pulpit and Pew.	2012
Meyers, Robin R	The Underground Church: Reclaiming the subversive way of Jesus	2012
Sanguin, Bruce	Darwin, Divinity, and the Dance of the Cosmos	2012
White, Bronwyn Angela	You who delight me: words of spirit and faith	2012
McLaren, Brian D	Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words	2011
Spong, John Shelby	Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World	2011
Brandon Scott, Bernard	The Trouble with Resurrection: From Paul to the Fourth Gospel	2010
Meyers, Robin R	Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus	2009
Burklo, Jim	Birdlike and Barnless: Meditations, Prayers and Songs for Progressive Christians	2008
Webb, Val	Like Catching Water in a Net, Human Attempts to Describe the Divine	2007
Webb, Val	Testing tradition and liberating theology: Finding your own voice	2007
Geering, Lloyd	Christianity without God	2002
Brandon Scott, Bernard	Re-Imagine the World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus	2001
Bodycomb, John	Aware and Attentive
Bodycomb, John	No Fixed Address
Brown, Delwin	What Does a Progressive Christian Believe? A Guide for the Searching, the Open, and the Curious
Charge, Mike	Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
Jenks, Gregory	Jesus then and Jesus now: looking for Jesus, finding ourselves
Leaves, Nigel (editor)	Encountering God: Face to Face with the Divine
Morris, Paul (editors)	Lloyd Geering Reader: Prophet of Modernity
Parkinson, Lorraine	Made on Earth: how gospel writers created the Christ
Parkinson, Lorraine	The World According to Jesus
Schaeffer, Frank	Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD: How to Give Love, Create Beauty and Find Peace
Webb, Val	Stepping Out with the Sacred: Human Attempts to Engage the Divine