{"product_id":"progressive-christianity-gary-gocek-9798993010601","title":"Progressive Christianity: Caterpillar to Butterfly","description":"You've heard that church attendance and the number of people claiming to belong to any organized religion-Christian, Abrahamic, or otherwise-have fallen drastically. Meanwhile, politicians lie and the media are biased. Even the people who go to church are discriminatory and seem to be stuck in the 1950s. \u003ci\u003eWhat's a progressive to do?\u003c\/i\u003e Are we forced into safe cocoons, reaching out only to other progressives? Can secular humanists join in? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eProgressive Christianity: Caterpillar to Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e focuses on the \u003cb\u003efive individual behaviors\u003c\/b\u003e taught in the New Testament. Author Gary Gocek asks whether he loves God, loves his neighbors, lives humbly, lives righteously, and serves others. In the course of reflecting on these questions, \u003cb\u003efour spiritual disciplines\u003c\/b\u003e are discussed: worship, prayer, study, and vocation. Finally, \u003cb\u003eten pathways forward\u003c\/b\u003e are presented, independent of each other, but culminating-through the help of divine grace-in emergence as a butterfly wearing the full armor of God. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlong the way, the difficulties of trying to be inclusive and radically humanizing are discussed. Traditionalist criticisms are considered. A definition of \u003ci\u003epatriarchal Darwinism\u003c\/i\u003e is offered in order to argue against systems allowing only male leadership with women in subordinate roles. A substantial annotated bibliography is included.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary Gocek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993010601\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gocek.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12d","brand":"Gary Gocek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443006222591,"sku":"9798993010601","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67036fef-5430-465b-8380-9a2d841e8439.jpg?v=1777201224","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/progressive-christianity-gary-gocek-9798993010601","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}