When I started attending my current church (a different denomination from what I'd been attending before), I sat down with my pastor to make sure the denomination was a good fit for me.  One of the questions I asked him was, "is this denomination liberal?"

His answer threw me for a loop.  "Do you mean liberal politically, or liberal in a Biblical sense?"  The latter meaning, was I asking if the denomination/particular congregation stuck "conservatively" to Bible concepts such as love and helping others.

Thinking more since then, I realize there are two ways of being liberal or conservative about the Bible's teachings.  There's his sense of "conservative," which I agree with....and then the sense of "conservative" that most people think of, in that they would be horrified to know I wear pants and don't want children and take birth control and have a job outside the home and don't necessarily want to get married.

I don't, however, like others, know the difference between "liberal" and "progressive," if there is a difference.

This all sounds very familiar to me, and I agree with the assessment of 'Thinking Christian'... it's one I like! I too haven't heard the term 'progressive Christian', but it seemed of all the labels the closest one to how I conceive of myself. Be lovely to meet you all. Come over to my page and have a look... I need some friends! xxx

There is supposed to be 13 replies to this thread, with Stardove last. I can only get four, and page two returns blank. That must be a BUG. Even cuter now I get post #1. Gee I wish this message board would adhere to what are pretty much Internet standards. Post #1 is the FIRST POST Duh!

At least by adding my own post I have dug out some others. Mine is now the tenth post.

I see clicking on the link to display the oldest post first seems to have the right effect, that all posts are displayed.

Apr 14, 2009 -- 6:43AM, NothingButLove wrote:

There is supposed to be 13 replies to this thread, with Stardove last. I can only get four, and page two returns blank. That must be a BUG. Even cuter now I get post #1. Gee I wish this message board would adhere to what are pretty much Internet standards. Post #1 is the FIRST POST Duh!

At least by adding my own post I have dug out some others. Mine is now the tenth post.

When I clicked on "Next" it showed a blank page, but when I clicked on the "2" I could access the rest of the posts.