Oh, hey, remember the conversation about do you have to talk shit about other religions to be the leader of one? My mom's church is a member of the Center for Progressive Christianity, and has this printed in the bulletin. Excerpts:
By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who…
2. Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the way to God's realm, and acknowledge that their ways are true for them, as our ways are true for us;
4. Invite 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;
6. Find more grace in the search for understanding than we do in dogmatic certainty - more value in questioning than in absolutes;
8. Recognize that being followers of Jesus is costly, and entails selfless love, conscientious resistance to evil, and renunciation of privilege.
I thought it was interesting.