Our Mission:
Progressive Christians Uniting inspires and equips individuals and communities for courageous leadership in the 21st century.
Our Mission & Values
Our Vision:
As Progressive Christians Uniting fulfills its mission, individuals and communities grow more deeply in faith, find strength in one another, and build the prophetic movement for social transformation.
Five years ago... PCU laid the groundwork for this national cross-branding project related to LGBT advocacy in mainline denominations. As hoped, participation in Believe Out Loud has gone viral and has drawn the attention and involvement of lots of young people. Click here to find out what the excitement is all about!
Conscientious Projector offers free screenings of socially conscious films in Claremont, Tustin, and Pasadena. Pasadena’s series is presented by the Sustainable World Ministry at All Saints Church. The others are presented by PCU chapters; for more on those people contact John Forney.
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Planned Giving
PCU Board Member Jim Burklo is the new Reflection Committee Chairperson, carrying on the good work of PCU co-founder John Cobb of the Claremont School of Theology. Click here for the Reflection Committee page.
A coalition of justice-centered organizations in California are working together to train volunteers to lead what are called 'Breakthrough Conversations' with people in their circles who may still have reservations about full LGBT inclusion and equality.
To learn more about the project or volunteer to participate please email Sean Patrick Coady.
Justice Not Jails is a multiyear campaign designed to aggregate and enhance the faith community’s involvement in working against racialized mass incarceration in California.
We invite you to visit the website at www.justicenotjails.org
The PCU Board of Directors is searching for a new Executive Director to succeed Rev. Peter Laarman upon his retirement at the end of the year. This demanding, high-profile position becomes available in January 2014 but the search process will be completed in September. Please click here for the full job description and information about the organization.