About the Author: Hugh Dawes

Vicar, St. Faith's Church, London, U.K. Chair of the Steering Committee, Progressive Christianity Network – Britain.

  • The State of Progressive Christianity in England

    By Published On: April 9, 2006

    from a speech delivered at the 1998 TCPC Forum

  • By Whose Authority

    By Published On: April 9, 2006

    The Bible--with all its strangeness, weirdness, and contradictions; its metaphors, ironies and stupidities, its untidiness, its sprawling nature, its boisterousness--is well suited to this a more democratic definition of 'authority.'

  • The Challenge for Progressive Christians:

    Dealing with Conservative Parishioners and Congregations

    By Published On: April 9, 2006

    If I'm myself sceptical about being an energiser, it will be abundantly clear to all of you that I am most certainly not a New Englander. It has been one of the real pluses of my involvement with TCPC over almost ten years now that I have had the opportunity to get to know progressive Christians from many different parts of the US; but in particular people from New England. I am not a total stranger here. But in a sense part of what that has done is to make me very aware of how our territories are each distinct; and of how different church, Christianity, and religion more widely are in North America, when compared with Britain.

  • Making Sense

    By Published On: February 2, 2006

    For all of us, I suspect, the world feels a different place this Christmas from the way it did this time last year.