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*We must be careful, irrespective of our ideological temperament and leanings, to be, first of all, women and men of faith, long before we’re liberals or conservatives. We must learn to speak and minister from faith and from the Gospel, and not from some liberal or conservative ideal.
It is dangerous and counterproductive, at least in the area of faith, theology and preaching, to self-define. Anybody who presents himself or herself as, before all else, a liberal or a conservative, a social justice advocate, a defender of the tradition, a feminist, an advocate for family values, a gay-rights advocate, an ecologist, a defender of the faith, or puts himself or herself under any label that carries the baggage of liberal or conservative ideology will experience, even before he or she speaks, a fierce resistance (most of which is not resistance to truth or to the Gospel but is, rightly, resistance to ideology). *
Guilty. Mea Culpa.
I pledge now to stop doing this, with God’s help.
*We must be careful, irrespective of our ideological temperament and leanings, to be, first of all, women and men of faith, long before we’re liberals or conservatives. We must learn to speak and minister from faith and from the Gospel, and not from some liberal or conservative ideal.
It is dangerous and counterproductive, at least in the area of faith, theology and preaching, to self-define. Anybody who presents himself or herself as, before all else, a liberal or a conservative, a social justice advocate, a defender of the tradition, a feminist, an advocate for family values, a gay-rights advocate, an ecologist, a defender of the faith, or puts himself or herself under any label that carries the baggage of liberal or conservative ideology will experience, even before he or she speaks, a fierce resistance (most of which is not resistance to truth or to the Gospel but is, rightly, resistance to ideology). *
Guilty. Mea Culpa.
I pledge now to stop doing this, with God’s help.