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Center for Progressive Christianity
Summary
The Center for Progressive Christianity (TCPC) was founded in 1996 by, retired Episcopal priest, James Rowe Adams in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is established in line with the larger progressive movement within American Christianity taking place in mainline Protestant churches. The Center is a nondenominational network of affiliated congregations, informal groups, and individuals.
The stated mission of The Center for Progressive Christianity is:
"To reach out to those for whom organized religion has proved ineffectual, irrelevant, or repressive, as well as to those who have given up on or are unacquainted with it."
"To uphold evangelism as an agent of justice and peace."
"To give a strong voice both in the churches and the public arena to the advocates of progressive Christianity."
"To support those who embrace the search, not certainty."
One of the Center for Progressive Christianity's goals involves creating a very broad tent. Their fourth point invites: "...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 of all races and cultures, those of all classes and abilities, those who hope for a better world and those who have lost hope." Most affiliates generally view religious belief as a process or journey—a searching for truth rather than establishing truth. Liberal Christians or post-Christians who stress justice and tolerance above creeds may also be attracted to the movement. The Center for Progressive Christianity has also during its growth with the progressive Christian movement in the United States inspired an offshoot in the British Progressive Christianity Network.
People who may be considered progressive Christians include those who:
Disagree with and may even be repelled by exclusivist beliefs.
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