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The Center of Inclusion

Over my ministry I've been called a conservative, a Communist, a secularist, an evangelical, a liberal, a Congregationalist and now lately a centrist. I'm getting calls from people saying, "You represent the center. Do something." A person cozies up to me at a meeting and asks, "What are those of us in the center going to do when the denomination splits?" I am hearing a plea that the ill-defined, nebulous center will miraculously rise up to hold our denomination together.

This has set me to thinking that the center can be understood these days in one of three ways, two of which have virtually nothing to offer. But the third prompts me to write.

Lots of voices can be heard from the center of negation. Since I have not attended any gatherings in Chicago or Dallas and since I am not a member of either the Covenant or Coalition groups, I am a centrist of negation. I am in the center by virtue of not being a...

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