My case as an Evangelical Christian and as a Liberal Progressive. It's possible (and even Biblical) to be both.

I'm an evangelical Christian but I'm also a very stern progressive. I'm no preacher and my thoughts here are fairly disorganized but I don't believe any of my religious beliefs (that I take straight from the Bible and I don't pick and choose scripture) contradict my political ones. I also agree with Bernie Sanders on practically every issue, how?

Well let me start with this,

Literally the only two issues on the Republican side you could even make a case for supporting Evangelicals is gay marriage and abortion and I don't think either do either. Why?

I believe God gave man free will to make their own mistakes to choose to follow him, so why should we force people and make them complacent toward Christianity for banning gay marriage? Just because I don't agree with it ideologically doesn't mean I have the right to force them to believe what I believe. I also don't want to force anyone because God himself did not force people to follow him, he wanted people to choose. There's not much choosing in shoving my religion down others throats.

As for abortion, I don't agree with them but I realize republican policies are not going to help. Banning isn't the answer because you'll just have shady clinics doing the abortions instead. I agree with the "find ways to minimize abortion" approach, such as more contraceptives, longer paid maternity leave, getting people out of poverty, and banning after 20 weeks (the age of the youngest born child). I think that is a compromise that gets much better results for people against abortion, because if its outright banned the abortions will simply happen in shady clinics. Banning isn't stopping the act so there's no point there, especially given its too controversial to ban. There's also the philosophy that once you legalize something you make it impossible to ban it again (ie prohibition as the primary example).

People often miss other major points in the Bible and it gives Christianity a bad rep with liberals (when really the message was VERY liberal for its time)

We are too be stewards of our environment (Genesis)

We are too take care of the poor (all throughout the gospel)

Money is the root of all evil. You can't serve both God and money (all throughout the gospel)

We are to treat everyone with love, loving everyone as we love ourselves (including our enemies)

The New Testament speaks against war because all who live by the sword die by the sword. When Jesus says you'll pick up your swords at the end he doesn't mean literally he means battling spiritually.

In the New Testament Christ speaks to a Samaritan woman (a minority and woman) with extreme respect that no Jew would have. The New Testament also calls for accepting the Gentiles and not just the Jews because the message is for all people and not exclusive.

The New Testament is very anti-legalistic, it says countless times the point of the old law (Old Testament) was to show how people would fail under an authoritarian/legalistic style rule, and how humanities true way toward salvation was through Grace. The Old Testament and strict laws that everyone likes to quote were put in place for the purpose of being extreme and over the top to show man that what we need is not strict law but what we need is love and grace from God and show that love to others. (Paul explains this in Romans)

Paul also makes a lot of cases FOR woman in the New Testament, one of them like "Yes Eve came from Adam, but all men have come from woman." There's also a verse in 1 Peter I believe (not citing things right now just going from the top of my head) that explicitly tells men to treat their wives with respect because they are their EQUALS in the kingdom of God. All the New Testament says is that there are different roles in the church for men and women of equal importance, they both need each other to function and can't without the other (using the analogy of a body and a head, both are useless without the other)

In Exodus God punishes Aaron's wife because she was pretty much judging and making fun of Moses' wife for being of a different race/having darker skin. His punishment for this was giving her leprosy which made her skin extremely pale. God having an extreme zero tolerance policy for racism there.

It does mention slavery in parts but in all of them its speaking culturally for ethical treatment of slaves and part of the Jewish law was you had to set them free after 7 years. That was very progressive for its time. It never actually condones slavery, it just realizes the culture.

I could go on, I have defenses as a progressive for everything in the Bible and I have defenses for all of my politically progressive beliefs from the Bible. A lot of people may not see it the way I do but I see no true conflict (that isn't fabricated by the conservative wing) with Christianity and Progressivism.