Posts Tagged "progressive Christianity"

Refresh: On Being a Progressive Conservative, or a Conservative Progressive

Posted by on Feb 26, 2025 in Blog | 0 comments

This post originally appeared on 30 June 2021, but given how rapidly Christianity is dividing into different tribes, and how hostile the interchange between them is becoming, it strikes me as being more important that ever. Hope you enjoy the read, regardless of where you are in the range… On Being a Progressive Conservative or a Conservative Progressive Is the world so simple that we can quickly attach a valid label to everyone? We often act as though it is – or certainly we do in the world of theology, where we try to separate between those who are theologically conservative and...

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On being a progressive conservative (or a conservative progressive)…

Posted by on Jun 30, 2021 in Blog | 26 comments

Photo by Miguel Á. Padriñán on Pexels.com Is the world so simple that we can quickly attach a valid label to everyone? We often act as though it is – or certainly we do in the world of theology, where we try to separate between those who are theologically conservative and those who are progressive – although we might use slightly different language, and suggest someone is a liberal or a fundamentalist or an evangelical or whatever. Single descriptors (conservative or progressive) usually make the error of assuming a world without nuance, a world where things fit tidily into a box… but when...

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