Hi, Kristin! I stumbled on your blog a few days ago, and it rocks! You are creative, genuine, and fun. Thanks for this.

I have a liiiitle food for thought about your post. Given with respect and cheer, I hope it won't offend.

-try to balance our desire for intellectual honesty and passionate worship and living.
-are committed to mercy, justice and meaningful action in our community and world.
-desire genuine fellowship and community with one another, seven days a week.
-value people coming together from many backgrounds.
I love these, especially the first. I hold these as succinct and beautifully expressed.

-are searching, and trying to find answers to big questions we might never grasp.
Agreed. However, the searching seems to be matched with never grasping. Along with your assertion of humility, perhaps also essentially noted is God's unfolding, revealing of truth as we seek Him out. "The truth will set you free." The inner transforming power of godly truth is a huge mark of community worship to me.

-are broken and in need healing.
-honor Jesus and deeply desire to follow him, even if we don’t always get it right.
Kinda the same here. We need healing, and will our entire life. But we also receive healing, which is supremely notable. Sometimes a certain healing is gradual; sometimes it's large and complete, even here on earth. With the second, we don't always get it right, but we aspire to allow ourselves to be molded by God, so that sometimes we DO get it right, and Jesus is honored, followed, glorified, through our earthen vessels.

-don’t need everything to be black and white—we are willing to say “I’m not sure.â€
I really, really love your phrase "intellectual honesty" in the other statement. And I'm not sure, for sure. But we're still perusing truth. Our minds are better useful when they're sharp. One of the benefits I find to being a Christian is that God tells us to examine things. We don't need everything to be black and white -- but we're questing after an understanding of the things of God.

-actively try to repel polarization, whether religious, political, economic or racial.
Whew. I respect it, but I'm not willing to go so far. There is good, and there is evil, and I'll say I'm polarized to get as close to good and far from evil as possible. BUT we respect the intrinsic dignity of every person, regardless of religion, politics, economics, race. 

-put loving God and loving one another above any strict doctrine.
It seems to me that in stating this, it *becomes* your strict doctrine. And I agree with it. 

Thanks for reading my little contribution. Hope you don't mind, coming from a stumble upon-ner whom you don't know! I hear what you're saying about people being hurt by past religious experience; I kinda like to think I'm anti-religious. Again, beautiful blog!