Follow St. Stephen's Church on Home Get Back About Our Mission Ministries Get Involved Visitors New Here? Connect Connect to St. Stephen’s Contact Find Us Progressive Christianity By calling ourselves progressive, we mean that we are Christians who: Proclaim Jesus Christ as our Gate to the realm of God Recognize the faithfulness of other people who have other names for the gateway to God's realm Understand our sharing of bread and wine in Jesus' name to be a representation of God's feast for all peoples Think that the way we treat one another and other people is more important than the way we express our beliefs Find more grace in the search for meaning than in absolute certainty, in the questions than in the answers Invite all sorts and conditions of people to join in our worship and in our common life as full partners We gladly welcome a wide range of people without imposing on them the necessity of becoming like us, including (but not limited to): believers and agnostics conventional Christians and questioning skeptics homosexuals and heterosexuals females and males the despairing and the hopeful those of all classes and abilities those of all races and cultures We see ourselves as a spiritual community in which we discover the resources required for our work in the world by: striving for justice and peace among all people bringing hope to those Jesus called the least of his sisters and brothers About Our Mission Progressive Christianity Our History