For years I've created and promoted "tag lines", short phrases that capture what's different about progressive Christianity.
Because if we don't go public with our real identity, if we don't let folks know who we are, they'll assume we represent the dominant paradigm of Christianity in America: fundamentalist, homophobic, and politically right-wing.
Here are "tag lines" that churches can use for outdoor signage and on websites and other communications:
* Deeds, not creeds
* We celebrate gay marriages
* Keep the faith, drop the dogma
* Park your car here - not your brain
* God is bigger than anybody's idea about God
* We experience (but don't define) God
* Other religions can be as good for others as ours is for us
* We evolve: so does our faith
* Take the Bible seriously - not literally
* Spiritual questions are more important than religious answers
* We care more about what happens in the war-room and the board-room than about what happens in the bedroom
Check out the brilliant street-facing progressive sign messages created by Clackamas United Church of Christ in Oregon!
Do you have any tag lines you'd like to add to this list?
JIM BURKLO