Unfortunately for the rest of us who claim to follow Jesus, fundamentalism tends to dominate the popular consciousness as the “true”version of Christianity. Progressive Christianity, an alternative to fundamentalism, often gets dismissed by its critics as anti-patriotic, socialist, morally subversive, and insufficiently Biblical. Such dismissals mischaracterize progressive Christianity in appalling ways, failing to see how progressive Christianity takes Jesus more seriously than its critics do.
Here’s a list of popular charges leveled against progressive Christianity — charges that, in many people’s minds, have ceased to be controversial. Christian fundamentalism has successfully dominated the conversation about the nature and purpose of Christianity to the extent that these charges are viewed, especially among many Christians, as self-evidently true. But they’re wrong.
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