PCA Communities & Affiliates

The structure of The Progressive Christian Alliance is organic and fluid. We have been called both “interdenominational” and “post-denominational” due to our refusal to view fellow brothers and sisters as “less-than” across denominational lines.  While we have grown from a loose network of local churches and individuals with a common mission to a more complex structure due to growth around the world, we still maintain the grassroots-style, bottom-up leadership that defined our beginnings and defined the early Church.

“Intercommunion” with our members, churches, and affiliates is the best way to describe our structure.  Deep relationships are the key.  The Progressive Christian Alliance is the umbrella of faith and communion that all are welcomed to gather under while maintaining their own identities and virtual autonomy.

Per our Articles of Faith, Constitution, and Canon; the Leadership Council oversees the day-to-day functions of The Progressive Christian Alliance.  The Conference Leaders, serve the churches, communions, and individuals within their conference area. The individuals, churches, organizations, missions, and communions that join and/or affiliate with The Progressive Christian Alliance are served by their respective Conference Leaders as well as the Leadership Council.

The Progressive Christian Alliance believes that no one church, mission, organization, or individual makes up the total body of Christ. Therefore, The Progressive Christian Alliance communion is bound together by a common mission and goal: to spread the good news of God through the radical and inclusive message of Jesus of Nazareth; leaving no one uninvited.

By using the term affiliate, we seek to offer congregations and ministers the opportunity to form a stronger denominational bond with the Progressive Christian Alliance. PCA congregations and ministers will retain virtual autonomy in their congregational and ministerial endeavors while having the support of a denominational body.

PCA affiliates consist of those whose ordinations were affirmed by the Progressive Christian Alliance, as well as those who were ordained in other denominations but choose a close affiliation with the Progressive Christian Alliance in addition to their home denominations. Regardless of how our affiliates came to join forces with us, they retain full membership in the PCA, and retain the right to modify that alliance at will.

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Progressive Christian Alliance Initiatives

The Party of the Lamb

ReviveUS – Progressive Liturgical resources

Open Table ~ The Webzine of the Progressive Christian Alliance

Ministry Partners

Our ministry partners are those autonomous organizations that have discovered a strong sense of kinship with the Progressive Christian Alliance, and wish a mutual affiliation; whilst retaining their independence from the PCA.

The Progressive Christian Alliance seeks to give a stronger voice and offer a broad support network to our ministry partners.

Unfundamentalist Christians

The God Article

Crazy Liberals and Conservatives

Order of the Friends of Jeshua – Served by Bishops Lee Peterson and Linda Marie nelson

Christ’s Catholic Church ~ An Ecumenical Free Catholic Church

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