Progressive Faith Sermons - Dr. Roger Ray

By Dr. Roger Ray

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Sermons from the Community Christian Church of Springfield, MO. We are believers in Jesus Christ who accept all people without judgment and who desire to work and worship as a community striving for social justice.

Episode Date
Faith Without Certainty
May 19, 2024
USA at War with Russia and Iran
May 05, 2024
Hyperbole, Hysteria, and Hypocrisy
Apr 21, 2024
Why No One in the Bible Accepted Jesus Christ as their Personal Lord and Savior
Apr 07, 2024
The First Easter
Mar 31, 2024
This is Not Normal
Mar 24, 2024
Redemptive Suffering
Mar 10, 2024
How Much Does it Cost Me?
Feb 25, 2024
Fear is the Root of Anger
Feb 11, 2024
God Doesn’t Write Books
Jan 28, 2024
What Your Teacher Didn’t Tell You (and probably didn’t know)
Jan 14, 2024
Time Does Not Exist
Dec 31, 2023
Finding Balance in a World that Demands Action
Dec 17, 2023
“When the Darkness Stares Back”​ (the world on the brink of war)​ ​
Dec 03, 2023
No One Hears the Sound of a Wooden Bell​
Nov 19, 2023
Is Justice Blind Or Just Crazy?
Nov 05, 2023
Israel and Palestine (Migration, Immigration, Colonizing, Occupation)
Oct 22, 2023
Why Support Ukraine’s War with Russia?
Oct 08, 2023
Creating Spiritual Community in a Post-Pandemic World
Sep 24, 2023
We Can’t All Be Above Average
Sep 10, 2023
(Still) Learning to Tell a Story
Aug 27, 2023
The Limits of Shame
Aug 20, 2023
End of Life Issues
Aug 13, 2023
Facing the Facts of Moral Corruption in Government
Aug 06, 2023
“Our Humble Return”: Knowing our Capacities, Boundaries, and Aspirations
Jul 30, 2023
Listening is the first duty of Love
Jul 23, 2023
Empty Promises: From Consumerism to Community
Jul 16, 2023
“Beyond Blaming and Agonizing”: Lovingkindness Practice in Ordinary Life
Jul 09, 2023
The Positive Value of Philanthropy
Jul 02, 2023
When Philanthropy Goes Bad
Jun 25, 2023
On Accidentally Getting Old
Jun 18, 2023
“As Wide as the World”: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion in the face of Violence and Coercion
Jun 11, 2023
“Nothing Humane”: A Lament and Plea for Rights-Respecting Border Policies
Jun 04, 2023
As You Suspected, It Really is about Race
May 28, 2023
“Abundance, Regeneration, and Healing”: Permaculture and Spiritual Practice
May 21, 2023
In Honor of ​Childless Mothers​
May 14, 2023
Quicker to Cut than to Care: The Urgency of Climate Justice
May 07, 2023
Compassion is the Foundation of Faith and Civilization
Apr 30, 2023
Who Wants to Be a Good Person?
Apr 23, 2023
Missouri’s Anti-Trans Actions and Our Continued Resistance
Apr 21, 2023
What is the Nature of the Mystery otherwise known as God?
Apr 16, 2023
“Life is Longer than Death”
Apr 09, 2023
Judas, An Imaginary Character We Have All Met
Apr 02, 2023
The Plight of the Progressive Church
Mar 26, 2023
Moving a Balloon, Moving a Rock: On Patience & Praxis
Mar 19, 2023
“Don’t Say Gay (or Trans)” in Missouri
Mar 12, 2023
It’s not left or right, it is right or wrong
Mar 05, 2023
Age and Ageism regarding the Pandemic and Presidents
Feb 26, 2023
Open to Change
Feb 19, 2023
From Mindless Consumption to Grateful Contentment
Feb 12, 2023
“Out of Hand”: Tyre Nichols, Police Brutality, and Nonviolence
Feb 06, 2023
The Linchpin of a Chariot: Caring for One Another
Feb 05, 2023
Gun Violence, Trauma, and Wholeness
Jan 29, 2023
Claiming Space, Disrupting Structures: Communities of Resistance & Social Determinants of Health
Jan 22, 2023
Making Friends that Make us Better (Discourse on Happiness 2)
Jan 15, 2023
The Real Questions (Discourse on Happiness 1)
Jan 08, 2023
Janus, the God of Doors and Hallways (Originally Posted January 4, 2015)
Jan 01, 2023
Christmas Now and Then (Originally Posted Dec. 22, 2019)
Dec 25, 2022
Birth Pangs or Death Throes?
Dec 18, 2022
“Give Up All the Other Worlds”: Learning to Hope
Dec 11, 2022
What Does Religion Have to Offer to a World in Crisis?
Dec 04, 2022
Sometimes Family is another ‘F’ Word
Nov 27, 2022
“A Hard Look”: How the US Fails Its Children
Nov 20, 2022
“Even Where We Mean to Mend Her”: Transforming Culture in an Age of Catastrophic Climate Change
Nov 13, 2022
True Friendship (only exists among good people)
Nov 06, 2022
The Dangers of Incrementalism (Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic)
Oct 30, 2022
Transforming Contempt into Compassion
Oct 23, 2022
Stepping Out of Line (Without Losing Heart)
Oct 16, 2022
From Coercion to Connection: Nonviolence & Hope
Oct 09, 2022
It’s not a conspiracy theory if it is true!
Oct 02, 2022
Creating a Culture of Care
Sep 25, 2022
“Exploitive & Predatory”: Debt & Economic Justice
Sep 18, 2022
September 11, 21 years later
Sep 11, 2022
Labor Day “Does Capitalism Depend on Poverty and Hunger?”
Sep 04, 2022
Salvation and Voters’ Rights
Aug 28, 2022
When Innocence is Not Enough
Aug 21, 2022
Guns, Race, & Public Health
Aug 14, 2022
From Conspiracy Theories to Reimagining Community
Aug 07, 2022
Philosophy of Religion
Jul 31, 2022
Religion vs Spirituality
Jul 24, 2022
Denial of Cultural Racism is Our Stumbling Block
Jul 17, 2022
We're All Connected
Jul 10, 2022
Government of the People?
Jul 03, 2022
Angles and Demons (how crisis reveals who we really are)
Jun 26, 2022
The Danger of Propaganda (masquerading as free speech)
Jun 19, 2022
“Stop Funding Terrorism" (and save the planet at the same time)
Jun 12, 2022
The Emperor of Ice Cream
Jun 05, 2022
Why Are Mass Murders Uniquely American?
May 27, 2022
Regarding Roe v Wade
May 22, 2022
“Making Peace in the Moment We Are Alive”: Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh
May 15, 2022
Mother’s Day, the Supreme Court, and the Spectrum of Trust
May 08, 2022
“Ain’t Scared of Nothing”: May Day, Unions, and Economic Justice
May 01, 2022
Demythologizing Islam
Apr 24, 2022
Resurrecting Hope
Apr 17, 2022
Demythologizing Religion: Earth-Based Spiritualities & Naturalistic Paganism
Apr 10, 2022
Demythologizing Christianity
Apr 03, 2022
Demythologizing Religion: Hinduism and the Possibility of Pluralism
Mar 27, 2022
Demythologizing Religion: Buddhism & Nonattachment to Views
Mar 20, 2022
Demythologizing Judaism
Mar 13, 2022
Demythologizing Religion
Mar 06, 2022
Black History Month: Less About and More Through
Feb 27, 2022
Reflections on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by David Ketchum
Feb 26, 2022
Love Your Enemies
Feb 20, 2022
A Wonderful Life Should Not Be Exceptional
Feb 13, 2022
War Is Inconceivable
Feb 06, 2022
A Snake Doesn’t Have to Bite You to be a Snake
Jan 30, 2022
“Trying to Create Safety”: Reflections on Restorative and Transformative Justice
Jan 23, 2022
“Until Everyone is Safe”: Reimagining Social and Community Well-Being
Jan 16, 2022
Ten Commandments vs the Beatitudes
Jan 09, 2022
Sociopathy vs Spirituality
Jan 02, 2022
Dr. Roger Ray - Christmas Stories
Dec 26, 2021
Guess Who Won’t Be At Christmas Dinner
Dec 19, 2021
More Than Our Trauma: Healing-Centered Social Change
Dec 12, 2021
Open Season on Protestors? (well, except for Jan. 6 rioters)
Dec 05, 2021
Giving Thanks in a Thankless World
Nov 28, 2021
The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Nov 21, 2021
"Almost All of the Land in the World is Claimed": The Enduring Violence of Borders
Nov 14, 2021
The Roots of Racism (Missing White Woman Syndrome)
Nov 07, 2021
Halloween, a Holiday of Acceptance and Possibility
Oct 31, 2021
Crisis as Opportunity for Transformation – How A Pandemic Can Help Us
Oct 24, 2021
Domestic Violence & Social Change - David Ketchum
Oct 17, 2021
"One Thing You Lack": The Moral Necessity of Economic Justice - David Ketchum
Oct 10, 2021
My Dietitian: Comedian Bill Maher - Dr. Roger Ray
Oct 03, 2021
Everything Is a Gift - David Ketchum
Sep 26, 2021
Whistleblowers in Prison - because truth is treason in an empire of lies - Dr. Roger Ray
Sep 19, 2021
Twenty (More) Years of Imperial Tragedies - David Ketchum
Sep 12, 2021
An Economic Wakeup Call (Labor Day) - Dr. Roger Ray
Sep 05, 2021
The Threat of Fascism is Real
Aug 29, 2021
Gilgamesh: The problem with Enkidu - Dr. Roger Ray
Aug 22, 2021
Wonders and Horrors
Aug 15, 2021
A Shattered Vision: Residential Schools, Forced Assimilation, and Shifting our Collective Consciousness - David "Katya" Ketchum
Aug 08, 2021
Shedding Light on Residential Schools, Pt 1 - David "Katya" Ketchum
Aug 01, 2021
The Rise in Violent Crime, Gun Violence, and the importance of Police Reform - Dr. Roger Ray
Jul 25, 2021
Does Democracy + Capitalism have to = Corruption? - Dr. Roger Ray
Jul 18, 2021
Is Our Minimum Wage Just Slavery Reimagined? - Dr. Roger Ray
Jul 11, 2021
“A True Civic Education”: 1619, 1776, and the Practice of Freedom - David “Katya” Ketchum
Jul 04, 2021
Belief and Faith, Myth and Sacred Narrative
Jun 27, 2021
Living Beyond Religious Guilt, Fear, and Manipulation - Dr. Roger Ray
Jun 20, 2021
Seeing the World Through the Lens of Racial Awareness - Dr. Roger Ray
Jun 13, 2021
Overcoming Religious Trauma - David “Katya” Ketchum
Jun 06, 2021
The Lost Year or Our Year of Losses - Dr. Roger Ray
May 30, 2021
Tired of Childhood Poverty Yet? - Dr. Roger Ray
May 23, 2021
Religion and Socialism - Dr. Roger Ray
May 16, 2021
Some Culture Needs to be Canceled - Dr. Roger Ray
May 09, 2021
Our Whole Selves: May Day, Mutual Aid, and Community - David "Katya" Ketchum
May 02, 2021
A Progressive Colloquy
Apr 27, 2021
What have we learned? - Dr. Roger Ray
Apr 25, 2021
Black, White, and Blue - Dr. Roger Ray
Apr 18, 2021
I got vaccinated but I still want some of you to stay away - Dr. Roger Ray
Apr 11, 2021
Who Will Roll Away the Stone? Dismantling Supremacy, Claiming Liberation
Apr 04, 2021
I Guess the Devil Did Go Down to Georgia
Mar 28, 2021
The Unforgivable Sin?
Mar 21, 2021
My Brother’s Keeper
Mar 14, 2021
A Whip of Cords: Casting Out Injustice and Creating Communities of Care
Mar 07, 2021
All Idols are Slated for Destruction - Feb 28 2021
Feb 28, 2021
Rebuilding America (after Trump)
Feb 21, 2021
Love in the Time of Pandemic
Feb 14, 2021
Beyond Toxic Propaganda: Education, Memory, and a Better Future
Feb 07, 2021
Patriots or Traitors?
Jan 31, 2021
Of Unicorns and Alternative Facts
Jan 24, 2021
Everyone Counts
Jan 17, 2021
After the Insurrection Failed
Jan 10, 2021
Reasons for Hope (2021 and Beyond)
Jan 03, 2021
Mary’s Song
Dec 27, 2020
Hey, White People!
Dec 20, 2020
The Forest is Full of Socialists
Dec 13, 2020
Meet Me at the Corner of Compassion and You’re Not that Special
Dec 06, 2020
When (If) We Gather
Nov 29, 2020
Reuniting a Once Great People
Nov 22, 2020
Waging Peace
Nov 15, 2020
When the Voting Ends
Nov 08, 2020
Let Us Not Be Petty when Our Cause is so Great
Nov 01, 2020
When the NRA is Too Liberal
Oct 25, 2020
Power begets Power (the killing of Breonna Taylor)
Oct 18, 2020
We're Not Dead Yet
Oct 16, 2020
In Search of a Better American Myth
Oct 11, 2020
Faith and Probability
Oct 04, 2020
Ordinary people with Extraordinary Vision
Sep 27, 2020
The Politics of Food
Sep 20, 2020
A Memorial for the Confederacy
Sep 13, 2020
Labor Day: A Universal Basic Income
Sep 06, 2020
“The Gift of the Church to the World”
Aug 30, 2020
Imagining a Post-Covid New and Improved World
Aug 23, 2020
Against Human Sacrifice: Reclaiming Self & Community Care
Aug 16, 2020
What Makes Us Human?
Aug 09, 2020
Fake News: Being informed in a time of propaganda
Aug 02, 2020
"A Silent Pandemic"
Jul 26, 2020
“What is the Nature of the Mystery otherwise known as God?”
Jul 19, 2020
"Could You Be A Sociopath?"
Jul 12, 2020
“Just War, War Crimes, War is a Crime, War is a Racquet”
Jul 05, 2020
Thievery from the Top Down
Jun 28, 2020
Progressive Faith and Practice
Jun 21, 2020
Racism as a Public Health Crisis
Jun 14, 2020
Every Barking Dog
Jun 07, 2020
I Can’t Breathe (Racism in America)
May 31, 2020
The Debt we Owe to the Truth
May 24, 2020
The Ten Commandments of Logic
May 17, 2020
What Mom Really Wants: Equal Rights
May 10, 2020
A New Economy for a post-Covid world
May 03, 2020
The Talk Revisited
Apr 26, 2020
Dr. Kyler Sherman-Wilkins: On Reparations
Apr 19, 2020
The Resurrection of the Earth
Apr 12, 2020
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
Apr 05, 2020
The End of the Status Quo
Mar 29, 2020
Keep Calm and Carry On
Mar 22, 2020
Will COVID-19 reveal our better angels or our fearful demons?
Mar 15, 2020
Sinners and Saints
Mar 08, 2020
Is Stupid Worse than Evil?
Mar 01, 2020
Changing the World, Changing Me
Feb 23, 2020
Listen to the Poet
Feb 16, 2020
Renegotiating Love (evolution and symbiosis)
Feb 09, 2020
Personal Faith and Public Policy
Feb 02, 2020
A Preference for Facts
Jan 26, 2020
The Price of Defending Whiteness
Jan 19, 2020
The Macro View of Economics and Time
Jan 12, 2020
The Emerging Church (from the ashes of the old church)
Jan 05, 2020
In This Life
Dec 29, 2019
Christmas Now and Then
Dec 22, 2019
What I Learned from My Critics
Dec 15, 2019
David Katya Ketchum: Imagining Other Possibilities
Dec 09, 2019
After Black Friday
Dec 01, 2019
(Dys)function and Family: Holiday Guilt Trips
Nov 24, 2019
Incrementalism
Nov 17, 2019
Life is a shipwreck, remember to sing in the lifeboats
Nov 10, 2019
Mark Lenneville: Evangelism in the Progressive Church
Nov 03, 2019
David Katya Ketchum: From White Supremacy To Collective Liberation
Oct 27, 2019
Healthcare - America Taken Hostage
Oct 20, 2019
Columbus Was A Jerk
Oct 13, 2019
Drugs, Race, and Prisons
Oct 06, 2019
When Our Emotions Become Our Prison
Sep 29, 2019
Long Overdue Reform of Gun Control (Do Something!)
Sep 22, 2019
Overwhelmed or Just a Short Attention Span?
Sep 15, 2019
Jesus Never Laughed and Socrates Never Cried
Sep 08, 2019
Capitalism v Socialism
Sep 01, 2019
Jesus: Without Christmas or Easter
Aug 25, 2019
Living Beyond Regret
Aug 18, 2019
Devaluing Humans
Aug 12, 2019
Evidence Based Faith: Haud Ignota Loquor
Aug 12, 2019
The Demand for Gun Sanity
Aug 04, 2019
We’re All Connected (but I got mine!)
Jul 28, 2019
book release: Meditations
Jul 24, 2019
Give No Space to Racism or Fascism
Jul 24, 2019
Greed and Dashed Hopes
Jul 21, 2019
America's Diseases: Depression, Addiction, and Suicide
Jul 14, 2019
Missed Connections - Faith communities in a post-theistic world
Jul 07, 2019
We are Partners
Jul 01, 2019
Against Giving Up
Jun 30, 2019
Moderate Radicals
Jun 23, 2019
State Mandated Sexual Assault
Jun 16, 2019
David Katya Ketchum: Yes and No - Reflections on Love, Community, and Consent
Jun 09, 2019
When AIDS Was Funny
Jun 02, 2019
What Do We Do With Our Grief?
May 26, 2019
Whitman on Orthopraxy
May 19, 2019
Mother’s Day and Equal Rights
May 12, 2019
Socialism for the Rich, Capitalism for the Poor
May 05, 2019
The ‘is’ and ‘is not’ of the Green New Deal
Apr 28, 2019
They Tried to Bury Us
Apr 21, 2019
Rev. Mark Lenneville: Progressives or "Nones"?
Apr 14, 2019
David Ketchum: Social Rejection and Social Change
Apr 07, 2019
Would it Hurt You to Lighten Up a Bit?
Mar 31, 2019
Sensible Gun Laws Save Lives
Mar 24, 2019
Augustine, Scripture, and Science
Mar 17, 2019
Roger Ray in SC in April, England in June
Mar 11, 2019
David Ketchum: Honesty and Hope
Mar 10, 2019
Jesus - Teacher of Radical Compassion
Feb 24, 2019
The Bible and Immigration
Feb 17, 2019
Coffee and Poetry
Feb 10, 2019
Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Feb 03, 2019
The Horror All Around Us
Jan 28, 2019
Freedom Through Defiance
Jan 20, 2019
After the Patriarchy Falls
Jan 13, 2019
America's Original Sin
Jan 06, 2019
Going Where We've Never Been
Dec 30, 2018
Family, Friends, Food, Credit Card Debt, Guilt, and Resentment
Dec 24, 2018
Escaping the Fowler’s Snare
Dec 16, 2018
Justifying the Inexcusable
Dec 09, 2018
Three Deadly Sins of Public Discourse
Dec 02, 2018
The End of Providence
Nov 25, 2018
Making Family Joyful Again
Nov 18, 2018
Haud Ignota Loquor
Nov 12, 2018
God is too big for just one religion
Nov 04, 2018
Cancers Grow from Within
Oct 28, 2018
Exercising Empathy
Oct 21, 2018
Please vote for our continued existence!
Oct 15, 2018
Demanding Answers from the Universe
Oct 14, 2018
An Overdue Second Bill of Rights
Oct 07, 2018
To Suffer is not Enough
Sep 30, 2018
Faith Defined by Radical Compassion
Sep 23, 2018
We’re All Mad Here
Sep 16, 2018
We’re All Mad Here
Sep 16, 2018
The Free Press
Sep 09, 2018
A Universal Basic Income
Sep 02, 2018
Ego and Other Barriers to Community
Aug 26, 2018
Sage Advice
Aug 19, 2018
Getting Old or Getting Better?
Aug 12, 2018
Why We're Still Here
Aug 05, 2018
From Common Sense to an Age of Reason
Jul 29, 2018
Pride
Jul 22, 2018
In This Life
Jul 15, 2018
Escape from Suffering
Jul 08, 2018
An American Creed
Jul 01, 2018
Because We Are All Connected
Jun 24, 2018
Monetizing the Earth
Jun 17, 2018
The Trouble with Kings
Jun 10, 2018
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Jun 03, 2018
When Great Trees Fall
May 27, 2018
The Last Temptation of Evangelicals
May 20, 2018
David Ketchum: Starting with Ourselves
May 13, 2018
David Ketchum: Access for All
May 06, 2018
Truth Beyond Courtesy
Apr 29, 2018
Beyond Belief
Apr 22, 2018
I’m Not With Stupid Anymore
Apr 15, 2018
The Ghost Community (the one everyone talks about, but no one has ever seen)
Apr 08, 2018
Prophets and Martyrs
Apr 01, 2018
The Brave New World
Mar 25, 2018
Religious Myth and Faithful Reality (From Idols to Ideas)
Mar 18, 2018
Rev. Mark Lenneville: Shine the Light
Mar 11, 2018
Commandments or Helpful Guidelines?
Mar 04, 2018
On Being Woke
Feb 26, 2018
Internment in the Land of the Free
Feb 18, 2018
Love is All You Need (Domestic Abuse Unplugged)
Feb 11, 2018
Remembering and Reconciling (Why Can't We All Just Get Along?)
Feb 04, 2018
Keeping a Progressive Voice online
Jan 31, 2018
Abortion's Place in Ethical Thinking
Jan 28, 2018
We Are Not the Fragile Ones
Jan 21, 2018
#TimesUp
Jan 14, 2018
From Silence Breakers to Culture Changers: Power and Potential in the #MeToo Movement
Jan 07, 2018
The Power Hidden in a Choice
Dec 31, 2017
Christmas Stories
Dec 24, 2017
Losing Faith in Humanity
Dec 17, 2017
David Ketchum: Telling the Truth About the Afterlife
Dec 11, 2017
David Ketchum - Equality: From Principle to Reality
Dec 03, 2017
Thanksgiving as a Myth of Origin
Nov 26, 2017
A Drug Solution
Nov 19, 2017
The Profanity of 'Thoughts and Prayers'
Nov 12, 2017
Preserving Democracy
Nov 05, 2017
Spiritual but not Religious...
Oct 29, 2017
Dedication to Reality and Balancing
Oct 22, 2017
Living a Life Worth Living
Oct 15, 2017
Long Overdue Reform of Gun Control
Oct 08, 2017
Tribalism, Narcissism, Nationalism, and their Offspring
Oct 01, 2017
September 24, 2017
Sep 24, 2017
Year End Donations
Sep 18, 2017
The Challenge of Community
Sep 17, 2017
Race, Drugs, and Prisons
Sep 10, 2017
Meaningful Work AND Meaningful Salaries!
Sep 03, 2017
It’s Probably about Sex
Aug 27, 2017
Race in America
Aug 20, 2017
Kathy Jensen: "God is in the Grey"/David Ketchum: "A Spiritual Reformation (and this time we really mean it)"
Aug 13, 2017
Getting the Healthcare We Want
Aug 06, 2017