Wow, what a busy week this is.  I'm interviewing my client (MY client!  Yay!  And poor guy, being stuck with me) at the immigration detention center on Thursday, which will be kind of frightening.  The rest of the week is just packed with stuff to do--meetings and appointments and calls.

There was a lot that I liked about it.  I really enjoyed reading a theologically rigorous argument in favor of progressive Christianity--one that isn't just based on feeling that, say, homophobia is bad, but rather one that makes an argument in favor of LGBT inclusion that is grounded in the long history and tradition of Christian thought.  Too often, I think that progressive Christianity just feels sort of...mushy and self-indulgent.  But Borg paints a picture of an almost fierce progressivism, motivated by a desire for justice and a love of the least of these.  That was very appealling to me.

I will say that I felt like his discussion of sin did veer a bit into the self-indulgent--I felt like he sort of acted as if sin-as-separation-from-God or sin-as-blindness-to-human-need are just things that sort of...happen to humanity.  He seemed to think that we have no role in it--that we're never responsible.  The idea of repenting--Go, and sin no more--kind of got left along the wayside.

But I'm pretty into examination of conscience and all that, so it makes since that I'd have trouble with that aspect of it.  In general, I thought it was great, though.