"A Brief Introduction to Progressive Christianity"
Here's the short version:
"Progressive Christians are perfectly comfortable holding faith and science in harmony. For example, they believe God created the world but did so through the process of evolution. Rather than being in conflict, they argue that faith and science can peacefully coexist.
Progressive Christians are more interested in right living than right beliefs. For example, Jesus’s “Great Commandment” (to love God and neighbor) and his “Golden Rule” (to treat others the way you want them to treat you) are more important to them than the fine details of human-made doctrines and creeds.
Although progressive Christians take the Bible seriously, they don’t always take it literally."
Do you see yourself in this?
The first paragraph, certainly. That said, I have been labelled a Liberal Christian, and I suppose I am classically liberal in the manner of the early Federalists, but no one has ever called me Progressive.
That is, with one exception: someone on this forum who accused me of being Progressive (as if that is inherently a bad thing) because I am an enthusiast of Origen and the early Church Fathers of Alexandria, such as St. Clement of Alexandria, St. Athanasius the Apostolic, St. Anthony the Great and St. Cyril the Great, among others, as well as other Patristic figures who use Alexandrian exegesis like Psuedo-Dionysius.
They drew a peculiar and unsupportable connection between Alexandrian exegesis and the Minority Text or Alexandrian Text Type (probably a misnomer, because aside from the Codex Alexandrinus, the Gospels of which are of the Byzantine text type, which was found in Alexandria, the Codex Sinaiticus was found in a locale traditionally considered part of the Church of Jerusalem and before the rebuilding of the Hagiopolis under St. Helena, the Church of Caesarea, and the provenance of the Codex Vaticanus is uncertain; I think Vaticanus and Sinaiticus are likely related to the fifty Bibles produced by the Church of Caesarea under Eusebius as part of the order for a hundred Bibles for Rome and Constantinople, while Alexandrinus is more likely related to the fifty Bibles produced by Alexandria as part of the same order, under St. Alexander and his protodeacon and later successor St. Athanasius). I myself am not a huge fan of the Alexandrian text type; I think the Western text type of the Vetus Latina and the Vetus Syra is much more interesting, and otherwise tend to prefer the familiar Byzantine text and the closely related Syriac Peshitta, with the additional books translated by St. Philoxenus of Mabbug.
I am sure we can agree that while I might be liberal, I am probably not progressive, and certainly not for the reasons proposed, and I do wish people would avoid using mainstream political identifications as insults. I mean, it is surely valid to criticize someone for being a totalitarian or a member or supporter of a political movement that supports or has committed genocides, but otherwise, more charity and love is needed.
