All Hallows Church, Hyde Park, Leeds
All Hallows Church, Hyde Park, Leeds strives to be an open, inclusive, welcoming Christian community exploring the meaning of faith today, through worship and prayer, discussion and reflection, and action in the community. Its weekly 10.30am Sunday service draws people from throughout the Leeds area who seek a Christian community in which the gospel of love, forgiveness and compassion overrides a concern with traditional dogma and attitudes.
http://www.allhallowsleeds.org.uk/
St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, New Zealand
St Matthew-in-the-City, Auckland, NZ is working to be a church Jesus would belong to without embarrassment: inclusive, welcoming, compassionate and fearless. Here it is possible to be a fan without being religious. Site contains sermons and other related material.
20-20 Progressive Christianity Stoke on Trent
20-20 Progressive Christianity Stoke on Trent meets monthly, normally at the Quaker Meeting House, Miller Street Newcastle under Lyme on the first Sunday in the month at 7.00pm. There are no prayers or hymns, but a discussion takes place based on a Bible passage, searching for its real meaning and application.
http://www.20-20progressivechristianitystoke.webs.com
Wild Goose Resource Group
The Wild Goose Resource Group (WGRG) is a semi-autonomous project of the Iona Community. It consists of three resource workers - John Bell, Graham Maule and Jo Love. Based in Glasgow, the WGRG exists to enable and equip congregations and clergy in the shaping and creation of new forms of relevant, participative worship. This is our home page on the Iona Community site.
http://www.iona.org.uk/wgrg_home.plp
Wild Goose Resource Group
Over the last 30 years, the Wild Goose Resource Group (WGRG) have produced some of the most innovative resources for participative and relevant worship… songs, scripts, liturgies. They are pioneers in reclaiming a capella congregational singing and the introduction of songs from the world Church into UK church repertoires. This is their online Shop. It carries the widest available range of their publications, including such favourites as John L. Bell’s ‘10 Things they Never Told Me About Jesus’, ‘A Wee Worship Book’, the ‘Jesus & Peter’ dialogues and all the WGRG songbooks. Also free downloads, anthems, badges and Living The Questions DVD resources.
Holy City
HOLY CITY is the a monthly, Glasgow city-centre workshop & worship event for curious folk and faithful doubters concerned with the contemporary challenges for progressive Christianity. It is organised by the Wild Goose Resource Group and a motley crew of Glaswegian citizens. This is in effect WGRG’s laboratory where they experiment and develop their uniqie participative approach through workshops & worship. It runs from October to May and takes place in Renfield St Stephen’s Centre, Bath Street, Glasgow.
http://www.holycity-glasgow.co.uk
The Center for Progressive Christianity [TCPC]
The Progressive Christianity Network is our sister network in the United States, founded in 1994. There is an extensive set of resources providing a US perspective on Progressive Christianity.
ProgressiveChristianity.net
The home of worldwide open Christianity - there are links here to our sister organisations in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Take a look they are full of interesting information and resources.
http://www.progressivechristianity.net/
Open Christianity Network Ireland
Open Christianity Network Ireland is a network of people who wish to engage with the Christian tradition in their search for meaning. We affirm the freedom of each individual to develop their own spiritual vision, and accept that in this task there are differences as well as similarities between us.
St Marks Centre for Radical Christianity
...working to explore the meaning of the Christian faith for the 21st century and to offer a fresh vision for the Church.
Free to Believe
Free to Believe is an informal network of liberally minded members of the United Reformed Church. It holds a spring residential Conference, and autumn reading party at the URC’s Windermere Centre. This year’s conference “Jesus for the non-religious” was led by Jack Spong.
http://www.freetobelieve.org.uk
Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement
It is the conviction of members of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement that human sexuality in all its richness is a gift of God, gladly to be accepted, enjoyed and honoured as a way of both expressing and growing in love, in accordance with the lilfe and teaching of Jesus Christ. Therefore it is their conviction that it is entirely compatible with the Christian faith not only to love another person of the same sex but also to express that love fully in a personal sexual relationship.
Changing Attitude
Working for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender affirmation within the Anglican communion.
http://www.changingattitude.org.uk
WATCH
WATCH (Women and the Church) is campaigning to see women take their place alongside men as bishops and at every level in the Church of England. This requires the removal of current legal obstacles to the consecration of women as bishops. WATCH believes that the full equality of women and men in the Church is part of God’s will for his people, and reflects the inclusive heart of the Christian scripture and tradition.
http://www.womenandthechurch.org/
Inclusive Church
We are a network of individuals and organisations whose make-up reflects the breadth and scope of the Church of England and beyond. We come from differing traditions and differing locations but we are united in one aim: to celebrate and maintain the traditional inclusivity and diversity of the Anglican communion. We are committed to ensuring that those who are excluded because of their poverty, different abilities, ethnic origin or any other reason can play their full part in the Gospel of Jesus Christ’s unconditional love.
http://www.inclusivechurch2.net
Affirming Liberalism
Although focused on Oxford, it is open to anyone within and beyond the Oxford diocese who feels drawn to more liberal forms of Christianity. It will help to provide a “home” for those who may feel isolated as Liberal Christians, particularly within the Church of England, although it is open and welcoming to all denominations. It is for both lay and ordained Christians.
http://www.affirming-liberalism.org.uk
Protestants dans la ville
The site for Progressive French Christians - with french translations of progressive Christian organisations worldwide.
http://castelg.club.fr/index.htm
Radical Faith
Exploring fundamentals of faith in a changed world.
http://homepages.which.net/~radical.faith/index.htm
St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London
A parish church in the diocese of London and a PCN Britain affiliated congregation. “Our witness is Christian. Our practice is inclusive. We seek to know God, follow Christ and change the world. Starting with ourselves.”
http://www.st-james-piccadilly.org
Student Christian Movement
SCM is a movement seeking to bring together students of all denominations to explore the Christian faith in an open-minded and non-judgemental environment.
Sea of Faith
The Network explores the implications of accepting religion as a human creation; promotes this view of religion, and affirms the continuing validity of religious thought and practice as celebrations of spiritual and social values.
Westar Institute
Westar Institute is a member-supported, non-profit research and educational institute dedicated to the advancement of religious literacy. Westar’s twofold mission is to foster collaborative research in religious studies and to communicate the results of the scholarship of religion to a broad, non-specialist public.
http://www.westarinstitute.org
The Iona Community
The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
Explore Faith
We are a community of faith dedicated to sharing our beliefs and experiences with anyone seeking answers to spiritual questions. Launched in 1999, explorefaith.org is a non-profit organization with a growing list of Partner Churches that support its mission and development. Explorefaith.org and its associates are deeply committed to ongoing spiritual formation for people of all ages and all backgrounds, living in countries around the world.
Center for Action and Contemplation
The Center for Action and Contemplation, located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was founded in 1987 by Franciscan Father Richard Rohr, who saw the need for a training/formation center. It would serve as a place of discernment and growth for activists and those interested in social service ministries—a place to be still, and learn how to integrate a contemplative lifestyle with compassionate service. The Center’s purpose would be to serve not only as a forum for peaceful, non-violent social change but also as a radical voice for renewal and encouragement.
http://www.cacradicalgrace.org
Beliefnet
Our mission is to help people like you find, and walk, a spiritual path that will bring comfort, hope, clarity, strength, and happiness. Whether you’re exploring your own faith or other spiritual traditions, we provide you inspiring devotional tools, access to the best spiritual teachers and clergy in the world, thought-provoking commentary, and a supportive community.
Christian Aid
We don’t hug trees, we don’t wear sandals. But we do make change happen – both on the ground and in the plush offices of powerful international institutions. We work through local organisations to deliver direct, practical benefits, and we campaign to challenge the causes of poverty.
http://www.christianaid.org.uk
Ekklesia
A think-tank that promotes transformative theological ideas in public life.
Christians Aware
Christians Aware is an international and ecumenical movement aiming to develop multi-cultural understanding, raising awareness of the gifts and needs of God’s people everywhere. CA specialises in promoting international visits and exchanges between Christians in the UK and churches around the world. The exchanges often have an inter-faith dimension.
The Modern Church People’s Union
MCU is the leading liberal forum for open and informed theological comment in the Church of England and Anglican Communion.
http://www.modchurchunion.org/
Living the Questions
Living the Questions is a source of curriculum and media for both seekers and “church alumni/ae” convinced that Christianity still has relevance in the 21st Century. Providing a variety of flexible resources, Living the Questions can help people explore the future of Christianity and what a meaningful faith can look like in today’s world.
http://www.livingthequestions.com
A New Christianity for a New World
Bishop John Shelby Spong on the News and Christian Faith
https://secure.agoramedia.com//manage_spong.asp?rd=http://secure.agoramedia.com/story_home_spong.asp
The Snowstar Institute
The SnowStar Institute of Religion offers an open and honest atmosphere where radical religious questioning can be pursued freely and without fear. SnowStar promotes religious literacy and tolerance, helps individuals and communities find solidarity, and provides access to liberal educational materials and events.
Permission to Speak
Permission to Speak is a ministry developed by an ordained Methodist Church minister, Rev. John Churcher. John values the past as important in understanding the present, but is more concerned with Truth than with tradition. Jesus of Nazareth is his Gateway to the God-experience and he respects all who have found other Gateways.
http://permissiontospeak.org.uk
Thinking Anglicans
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk
Soulspace
Soulspace is a place for the discussion of faith and doubt, beliefs and questions. Originally set up by a group in the UK in or near the Christian tradition, it is intended to be a place for people of all sorts of faith backgrounds to meet and discover what we hold in common and where we differ. We want it to be a space to find understanding, encouragement and challenge, and to learn the hard lessons of respect and honesty. We welcome pilgrims, explorers, reckless adventurers and the hopelessly lost.
http://soulspace.org.uk/joomla_1.0.11/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=42&