Thanks for speaking prophetically.

I think there is some danger in becoming too much “an outsider,” only because the only way to critique without violence is from the inside (imho). I’ve explored the possibility of going “outside,” and it doesn’t scare me – but I would rather elbow Evangelicals as an Evangelical than punch them as a seeker. Maybe that’s too dualistic – the in/out paradigm is not so simplistic.

One of my greatest concerns with any supposedly-progressive forms of faith is exactly as you articulate: a lack of female voices. A lack of queer and racial minority voices, too, for that matter.

I think that any attempts at being better Christians or new kinds of Christians will inevitably fail if the ethos of the Beatitudes not only serve as our starting point, but also as our ending point, and our anchor for everything in-between.

Thanks David and Becky.