The Center for Progressive Christianity

TCPC defines progressive Christians as those who:

• proclaim Jesus Christ as our Gate to the realm of God.
• recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the gateway to God's realm.
• understand our sharing of bread and wine in Jesus' name to be a representation of God's feast for all peoples.
• invite all sorts and conditions of people to join in our worship and in our common life as full partners, without imposing on them the necessity of becoming like us.
• think that the way we treat one another and other people is more important than the way we express our beliefs.
• find more grace in the search for meaning than in absolute certainty, in the questions than in the answers
• see ourselves as a spiritual community in which we discover the resources required for our work in the world: striving for justice and peace among all people, and bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his brothers and sisters.
• recognize that our faith entails costly discipleship, renunciation of privilege, and conscientious resistance to evil as has always been the tradition of the church.