John Shore has started a new community: Thruway Christians. The founding document of the group describes Thruway Christians as:
Christians who find conservative/right-wing Christianity too oppressive and exclusionary, and progressive/liberal Christianity too theologically tenuous.
Read the rest of the founding document. It's worth it. And then read the second point again:
Christ and Christianity are meant to be understood, appreciated, and experienced as galvanizing inspirations for living a life of love, compassion, fairness, peace, and humility. Period.
Christianity is about living a life of love and compassion. It is not about forcing our beliefs upon others. It is not about being right. It is not about having the right answers to theological questions. Christianity is about love and compassion.
I am a Thruway Christian, and I hope that we can provide a space for those who are unheard to express themselves, a place who do not fit into the tidy narrative that the world wants us to accept.
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