Progressive Christianity: Vol 5

April 7, 2005

5. By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who know that the way we behave toward one another and toward other people is the fullest expression of what we believe…
Beliefs and doctrine vs practice and way of life. Is there one that comes first…? Does one become a Christian by behavior first…and [...]

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Progressive Christianity: Vol 4

April 5, 2005

4. By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who invite all 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 orientations and gender identities,
those [...]

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Progressive Christianity: Vol 3

March 31, 2005

3. By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who understand the sharing of bread and wine in Jesus’s name to be a representation of an ancient vision of God’s feast for all peoples…
Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding [...]

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Progressive Christianity: Vol 2

March 28, 2005

2. By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who 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.
…umm, yah. So this has to be one of the toughest questions. [...]

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Progressive Christianity: Vol 1

March 24, 2005

I hate labels. I don’t like the terms liberal or conservative, but I still use them. I tend to use "progressive" more often, but then what is the opposite of that: regressive, backsliding…can’t think of a term that doesn’t have a negative connotation. I think progressive is a pretty good term. I want to be [...]

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Theology & Experience

November 1, 2004

This is going to be the last post until Thursday. I’m swamped with Hebrew until I fly to Chicago for the Covenant Network’s conference: Made in the Image of God: Thinking Theologically About Sex. But until then, here are a few quotes from Mary Solberg’s Compelling Knowledge, and some thoughts following.
“In his God of the [...]

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