Christian Liberals & Progressive People of Faith

Theology speaks to larger and deeper aspects of existence for me than politics do.

Although I currently attend a UU fellowship and personally find meaning in Taoism and Hindu Vedanta, I am at heart a very theologically liberal Christian, I suppose.

Ironically, it was the Unitarians who first espoused "liberal Christianity" back in the 19th century. The following definition, in fact, is from The Manual of Unitarian Belief, by liberal Christian minister James Freeman Clarke in the 1880s:

Liberal Christianity, or freedom in religion, does not mean liberty to believe what we choose, but freedom to seek the truth anywhere, everywhere, and always. It means that we should not only be willing that others should differ from us, but ready to help them to inquire freely, even if their inquiries lead them to believe what we consider erroneous. It means that we are not to judge each other (Matt. vii. 1-5; Rom. xiv. 1-23), nor to submit our own belief to the judgment of any church or any human authority.


The complete manual can be found here:

http://www.americanunitarian.org/manual.htm