Any Good Liberal Religious Sites?

[stepnw1f]

Any my peeps might point to as good, open and tolerant towards all people?

Please list them..

[Deja Q]

1. This one

www.liberalslikechrist.org


There's a great page on ronald reagan in there too...

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. Here is Would Jesus love a liberal, soon to be turned into

the Liberal Christians network where a lot of the major liberal religious sites will be cross-referenced by topic. :)

http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Here...

http://liberalslikechrist.org/index.htm

[NYCGirl]

3. Here's a great one run by Jim Wallace —

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm

[acmejack]

8. Think it is Wallis.

[NYCGirl]

12. Sorry for the misspelling. But we mean the same guy. NT

[Telly Savalas]

4. Here

www.sojo.net

[bloom]

5. Here is a couple:

http://www.cfba.info/index.html

&

http://www.afsc.org/

[mac56]

6. One of my favorites

www.beliefnet.com

[papau]

15. beliefnet.com is also one of my favorites - along with Sojourner's

http://www.sojo.net /

but there are many, including many that are traditional Christian yet liberal.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. Try this one:

www.thewitness.org


DON'T GO TO THEWITNESS.COM.... entirely different site

[BrklynLiberal]

14. WOW! Does that look like...

or what!!!?????

[TallahasseeGrannie]

23. Yep...with an angel inside!

[f-bush]

9. Sojourner's

The site that was previously mentioned is good-it is the site that is run by Sojourners whose executive officer is Jim Wallis. On the two year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq they called for and facilitated vigils at about 1200 sites around the nation.

[leftchick]

10. LOTS of them... check here...

http://www.religioustolerance.org/int_rel22.htm

:)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Interesting that the Methodists rebuked gw a year or so ago, and

have sent him a letter asking him to repent if memory serves... that sounds pretty liberal to me.

[Hekate]

33. W is nominally a Methodist. They also rebuked him before the invasion

I was sort of keeping tally of all the religious groups whose central governing bodies rebuked W before the invasion of Iraq. Some cited St Augustine's notion of a "just war" to indicate that this was not. The message didn't seem to make it all the way to the pews, but I think it's important to note that the only major religious body in the US that did NOT rebuke the prez was the Southern Baptist Convention.

I think the Bushes have kept their Methodist affiliation because it is a mainstream sect. Putting "far-right-wingnut" in the blank for Religion on the app for president probably wouldn't have gone over quite as well.

Hekate

[BrklynLiberal]

13. There are a surprising number of liberal religious sites.

Links to Multifaith and Religion Sites
http://www.conjure.com/religion.html

Jesus the Liberal Webring
http://w.webring.com/hub?ring=jesustheliberal

http://religiousliberal.blogspot.com/



Concrescence: a liberal religious site
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1764/

[Capn Sunshine]

16. Don't forget Betty Bowers

America's Best Christian!

[Hyernel]

17. Here's one...

http://www.secularhumanism.org/

Perhaps living life based upon a framework of reality and science, rather than fantasy, might be nice.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. * * * *

[gratuitous]

22. Uhm, the OP did ask for "religious" sites

But thanks for your input, and I must say I really appreciate your smearing with the broad brush.

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Hamlet. ACT I Scene 5.

[Hyernel]

25. Quickest response I've gotten on DU

Usually my pithy gems go unnoticed.

[kwassa]

29. One man's reality can be fantasy to another

it is all in the point of view

[Hyernel]

35. No, actually...that's the thing about reality...

It is what really is....not what we wish was.

[kwassa]

36. The hell you say!

[Hyernel]

38. There is no Hell...

Isn't that good news?

[kwassa]

39. Says who?

[gratuitous]

18. I humbly recommend

The Community of Welcoming Congregations as well as Peace Church of the Brethren, both based in Portland, Oregon:

http://welcomingcongregations.org/

http://www.peacecob.org

[Deja Q]

20. While more apropos for the Religion forum, even I must admit that

posting in GD would allow for more responses more quickly.

[Charlie Brown]

21. Faithful America!

They're awesome

www.faithfulamerica.org

[Coastie for Truth]

24. Tikkun

[Ladyhawk]

26. This site is related to Liberals Like Christ.

Jesus No Republican

[renaldo]

27. try the Urantia Book

Not specifically liberal, but I have met so many progressive spiritually oriented people here that I would say it meets the criteria. The book is amazing - the intelligent life in the Universe, life on other planets, God, Jesus (before and after his life on earth), black holes (dark gravity bodies), lots more. Very cool.

[Hekate]

28. May I suggest the religion of our Founding Fathers: Unitarian Universalist

http://www.uua.org/

UUs tend to be quite liberal, open, and have a sense of humor about ourselves. My sister's church in Massachusetts was founded in 1769, but the sect goes back about 500 years to Europe.

Unitarian refers to one God rather than a Trinity; and Universalism refers to universal salvation rather than universal damnation with salvation for a select few (a popular idea at times in Western history -- like right now).

The UUs are embracing enough that there is even a pagan branch, CUUPS, or Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans.

Sexuality is not an issue: there are GLBT ministers as well as the usual straight female and male ministers.My mom's minister in Salt Lake City is transgendered.

My Lutheran cousin was inspired to write the following as a "UU hymn" which our UU side of the family thinks is funny:

All praise to whom it may concern
No creed or -ism do we spurn
Raise up your voice for God is love
Or all, or none, of the above.
Amen. Salem. Amin. Shalom. Om.
by "Doc" Sology (aka my cousin Larry W.)

More: UUs tend to be involved in "good works" in the community far in excess of their percentage in the population. I like that, too.

Check us out.

Hekate

[Hekate]

31. Miscellaneous UUs in no particular order

Thomas Jefferson
Abigail Adams
Paul Revere
Henry David Thoreau
Louisa May Alcott
Beatrix Potter
Buckminster Fuller
Susan B. Anthony
Clara Barton
Amy Lowell
Charles Dickens
Daniel Webster
John Quincy Adams
Horace Mann
Samuel Morse
Bela Bartok
Albert Schweitzer
Dorothea Dix
Whitney Young
Herman Melville
P. T. Barnum
Horace Greeley
Alexander Graham Bell
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Julia Ward Howe
Florence Nightingale
Frank Lloyd Wright
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adlai Stevenson II
Gilbert Stuart
Holsea Ballou
Linus Pauling
Nathaniel Hawthorne
W. E. Channing
Eliza Fallen
Millard Fillmore
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Malvina Reynolds
Josiah Wedgwood
Roger Baldwin
Margaret Fuller
Joseph Priestly
Maria Mitchell
Benjamin Rush
Sophia Fahs
Nathaniel B. Currier
Fannie Farmer
Olympia Brown
Mary A. Livermore
William Howard Taft
Paul D. White
Charles Darwin
Rod Searling
John Adams
Percival Brundage
Charles E. Scripps
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Celia Burr Burleigh
Leverett Saltonstall
Ted Sorenson

[papau]

34. UU's go back to Clement of Alexandria, his student Origen, and Gregory of

Nyssa all shorty after 200AD - while Clement was against gnostic concepts as then expressed, Clement and his students placed the Son and the Spirit below God the Father (Logos), and their beliefs were declared heretical - and the Pope remove Clement from the Martyrs calender - around 600AD with Unitarianism living on in various communities in Europe.

[kwassa]

37. Modern American Unitarians really have no connection to the

European antecedents, other than also rejecting the Trinity.

I regard most Unitarian claims on the Founding Fathers to be equally ludicrous.

I was brought up UU, by the way.

[happyslug]

32. Some progresive Catholic Sites:

http://www.networklobby.org/
http://home.maryknoll.org/index.php?module=MKArticles
http://www.catholicworker.com/
http://www.catholicworker.org/
http://www.paxchristi.com/
http://www.paxchristiusa.org/
http://www.paxchristi.net/
http://www.womenpriests.org/index.asp

A whole list of Progressive sites here:
http://members.aol.com/nreha/gcl.htm#CL

Some Progresive Catholic Blogs I have found:
http://happycatholic.blogspot.com/2005/01/this-conservative-sister-likes-that.html
http://liberalcatholicnews.blogspot.com/