Deepening Faith

Progressive Christians are constantly challenged to deepen their faith, to be on a pilgrimage.

The aim of this page is to provide some resources and ideas to help you on your journey.

It builds on the information on the Better News page, because progressive theology is not airy fairy but rooted in the world around us, even as it works for a better world to come.

Progressive Commentary from Church Organisations

From the Churches

WCC Statement on Venezuela

Pax Christi Australia statement on US invasion of Venezuela | ICN

World Council of Churches urges US, EU Commission to engage in safeguarding Palestinians 19 Dec 2025

WCC at Global Refugee Forum Progress Review 2025: “we affirm our shared commitment to be agents of hope”

Links to works by Theologians and Faith figures

“Gustavo Gutierrez: A Lasting Legacy of Liberation of Hope” by Yenny Delgado

Beyond A Fetal Position by Walter Brueggemann (A reflection following the US election)

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde at Kirchentag: We are family  A conversation between Bishop Budde and Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm moderator of the WCC central committee 2 May 2025

Peace Summit 2025 – Dr. Rev. Munther Isaac – Challenging Christian Zionism

Opinion: What if the Eucharist wasn’t about the priest? Carmel Pilcher

And then there is Trip Fuller

Top 23 Books I read in 2025 (and Can’t Stop Thinking About) Jan 7, 2026

Trip Fuller interviewing Jack Caputo at the Subverting the Norm III conference in 2015.

Over the last 15 years, Trip must have interviewed most of the progressive theologians in the English speaking world. Though, to Australian ears, he can sound like a snake oil salesman, his knowledge of theology is encyclopaedic. A review by Suzanne Grimmet of one of his books can be found here.

Podcasts

Spiritual Misfits, On the Way (Live at ‘Words for Those Who Wander’) Will Small, Dom Fay, Sue Grimmett, and Peter Catt explore what happens when the old spiritual maps stop working and we need to become cartographers for our time.

Wil Gafney: Reading and Seeing from the Margins In this conversation Wil speaks with Dom and Sue about the importance of attending to the multiple cultures and contexts of every text that we may be aware of dynamics of power in both the time of the text and in our own.

The Cross, the Resurrection, and Gaza A conversation with Dr Mitri Raheb, Dr Isaac Munther,  Omar Haramy, Jarred McKenna and Lisa Harper.