Point Four: By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who invite people to participate in our community and worship life without insisting that they become like us in order to be acceptable, including, but not limited to believers and agnostics conventional Christians and questioning skeptics women and men those of all sexual [...]
Point Three: By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus’ name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God’s feast for all peoples. The bread and the wine have long been central symbols of Christianity, but that kind of symbolism goes [...]
Point Two states: In calling ourselves progressive Christians, we recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God’s realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us. Christianity, in many venues, is very exclusivistic. In its hardest form, it says that [...]
Point One of Progressive Christianity states: By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who have found an approach to God through the life and teachings of Jesus. When the folks at the Center for Progressive Christianity put these eight points together, no point engendered more discussion than this one. For some, the [...]
When asked what kind of Christian I am, I unhesitatingly reply: I am a progressive Christian. Most folks don’t understand what I mean by that, so in today’s post I am going to spell it out. The eight points which define progressive Christianity are as follows: 1. By calling ourselves progresssive, we mean that we [...]
From UN General Secretary Kofi Annan on lessons learned from 10 years on the job: First, in today’s world we are all responsible for each other’s security. Against such threats as nuclear proliferation, climate change, global pandemics or terrorists operating from safe havens in failed states, no nation can make itself secure by seeking [...]
It occurs to me that one of the things most missing in 21st century life is passion. I’m not talking about the sexual thing between love-struck couples. There’s plenty of that! What I’m talking about is that there are so few people today who are passionate about anything…life, politics, religion, or church, to name but a [...]
We cannot trust ourselves too much, because we often lack grace and understanding. The light within us is small, and we soon let even this burn out for lack of care. Moreover, we often fail to notice how inwardly blind we are; for example, we frequently do wrong, and to make matters worse, we make excuses [...]
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