While the term “Progressive Christianity” has gained currency in the last few years, it doesn’t refer to another religion. And Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too is the result.Ĭould you name some other common caricatures and misconceptions about progressive Christians that you come across?ĭefinitely. While I had previously reviewed Childers’ book on my blog and posted video critiques of her work, in March 2022, I decided that I needed to take the next step of writing a book-length rebuttal to her incendiary claims. Needless to say, I have long sensed the need to respond to Childers. The incendiary and dehumanizing nature of this rhetoric is very disturbing. At one point she even describes them as longing to feast on “sheep steak”. She goes on to describe progressive Christian leaders as wolves. Childers also claims that progressive Christians, people like Peter Enns, have an evil, deceptive intent to trick real Christians into accepting the false religion of progressive Christianity. To claim he is not even a Christian is absurd and deeply offensive.Īs bad as that is, it gets worse. Furthermore, Enns attends an Episcopalian church. To teach at Eastern, faculty are required to sign an annual statement of faith. He is a respected biblical scholar and a tenured professor at Eastern University, an evangelical Christian university. The problem is that Childers claims this entire enormously diverse group of people, including figureheads she calls out by name like Peter Enns, Brian Zahnd, Rachael Held Evans, Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, William Paul Young, Richard Rohr, and many others, arenot only in doctrinal error, but they are not even Christians at all. The visible church is always a mix of wheat and tares. But that’s true of any group of nominal Christians, evangelicals included. To be sure, there may be some folk who identify as progressive Christians who are not actually Christians. In it, she argues that progressive Christians are not Christians at all, but rather adherents to another religion that promotes another gospel. Childers’ book came out two years ago and has proven to be very popular. I wrote it as a response to Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers. The book is titled Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: A Response to Alisa Childers (and the Heresy Hunters). You recently published a book which defends progressive Christians and their devotion to Jesus.
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