Dear Friends, Michael Roberts offers a spirited response to my critique on moderates this week. I felt he did such a good job I would let his letter stand alone. Next week I will critique my own faction, the conservatives. Moderates are overly subjective.
Moderates do taut tolerance as a supreme virtue and are tolerant of everything except intolerance.
While it is true that the majority of our church are reluctant to move to out to the poles of liberalism or conservativism, this does not necessarily make them theological indifferent or lacking in passion. We affirm our Articles of Religion and hold them dear. We are, to put it in a word, Orthodox. At the Council of Nicea Orthodoxy was defined as those who maintain the tension between the divinity of Christ and the humanity of Christ. Orthodox Christians, in the middle, are those who are comfortable with this tension, this paradox, this mystery.