“Dualistic seeing becomes a deeply ingrained habit, so that anything that isn’t conservative (“like us”) is, by default, liberal. That’s why I think those of us who are using the term “progressive Christian” have some extra explaining to do to our conservative brothers and sisters. And even before that, we have some listening to do. [...]

“God has no more to teach us than he has taught us in Christ. It is inconceivable that there should be a higher revelation than God has given in his incarnate Son.” –John R.W. Stott. “He [David Edwards][1] would say that evangelicals have a poor doctrine of the Holy Spirit, because we don’t think the [...]

“Even as we are uncomfortable with the confining nature of orthodoxy, we are loathe to live or think outside of it.  We desire a fresh, relevant experience of God but fear any insight beyond our creeds and Scriptures, believing it will be unfaithful or even sinful.  But how can our desire to grow and evolve [...]

“All denominations, whether liberal or conservative, share the conviction that they most faithfully follow Jesus.  They earnestly believe Jesus imagined the church as looking just like them.”  “It seems arrogant for any of us to suggest that we alone have most accurately discerned the true intentions of Jesus.” –Philip Gulley: If the Church Were Christian.

“Like Jesus, the apostle Paul was capable of great tenderness.  The thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians, even after two millennia, is still stirring, and relevant.  It is hard to believe that touching chapter was written by the same man who urged those who disagreed with his theology to castrate themselves (see Galatians 5:12).  This reveals [...]