Build a bigger table, not a higher fence.
Our Prophetic Touchstone
Pullen is a progressive faith community, deeply rooted in the heart of Raleigh, committed to love, and laboring for justice.
What does God require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”—Micah 6:8
Radical Vision
Pullen will be a living body grounded in the exchange of love, of resources, of ideas, of care, and of glimpses of the divine. not a gated community of like-minded “believers.”
We will be a gathering of people who boldly step into the free-flying spirit of God. We will ask what people need to live kin-dom lives rather than what the church needs to survive.
Reclaiming Jesus’s example of justice-love, we will move outside our walls to serve the most vulnerable in our community.
Radical Community
Our community welcomes all: The Certain and the Doubtful; The Excluded and the Included; People who are Able and People who are Challenged; Rich, Poor and In Between; Divorced, Partnered, Single and Widowed; Atheist, Agnostic, Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant, Islamic, Hindu, Jewish or Nothing; Heterosexual, Homosexual and Transgender; African-American, Asian, Latino; Citizens and Guests.
All are welcome here. Come here to be who you are.
Radical Hospitality
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church embodies the promise of God’s extravagant love.
We seek to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. Our faith calls us to stand up for the poor, oppressed, marginalized and those disenfranchised by the church, the community and the world.
Simply, we are ordinary people called to do extraordinary acts in our community, our neighborhoods, our state and in our world.
What kind of Baptist church is Pullen Memorial?
We are a Baptist congregation that holds dear the four fragile freedoms upon which Baptists were founded: soul freedom, Bible freedom, religious freedom, and church freedom. Historically, Pullen has had a strong commitment to meaningful and thoughtful worship and active lay involvement in social justice ministries. Our approach to religious education values asking the questions of the faith while affirming the basic tenets of the faith. Pullen is committed to mutual care and respect for one another, and all of God’s creation.
What does Pullen believe about God? Jesus? The Bible?
A wide variety of theological perspectives can be found at Pullen. Any statement about what “Pullen believes” is almost guaranteed to do an injustice to the personal beliefs of our members. However, there are some theological themes that are predominant in our community. We stress that God is a God who creates and loves, not judges and condemns. We emphasize the life and teachings of Jesus as central to our faith experience. We affirm that the Bible is a primary source for our beliefs and practice, but it is a book to be engaged, not worshiped. These, and many other theological convictions, can be seen most readily in the language and spirit of our worship experiences.