Originally published July 25, 2007.

Regarding human nature, the Integral Christian believes that all persons are equally creations of God. We are each human persons, created in God’s likeness. We are part of a larger Creation–a realm that includes the territories of body, mind, soul, and spirit. We are part of a meaningful universe that includes the self, its relations to others, cultures which form our worldviews, nature in all its manifestations, and the spiritual realms. We know this to be true as a belief endowed by both faith and knowledge.

We are neither exclusively progressive nor conservative; we are both/and. We conserve the future and protect our common life and welfare; we progress ever fuller into higher domains of spirit and the deeper domains of soul.

We are not merely traditional, modern or postmodern in our outlook. Many of us have walked through those paths before!. But today we transcend those categories into an embrace of Spirit wherever it appears, especially among the disenfranchised, marginal, and the poor of spirit. Among all which suffers we see the face of the Lord.

We believe the yoke of Christ is easy as Jesus promised: accept the always present Truth of God’s presence in all its perfect beauty and goodness. And yet our way is a rare and exceptional calling that finds God in every nook and cranny of the cosmos, and accepts every suffering and imperfection as the Cross of our Lord. We share a hope for the fulllness of salvation in life eternal, renewed and recreated relationships of self, culture, and nature.

We are the Integral Christian.