Hello Graham, and best wishes to you as well. I’ve scanned the article you mention and there is not much new in it. I read quite a bit of this on the Patheos site which includes perspectives from a variety of faiths including liberal Christianity and progressive Christianity. The two are not the same as an excellent post by Roger Olson recently pointed out. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/rogereolson/2021/04/who-is-a-progressive-christian-and-how-is-that-different-from-liberal-christian/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Best+of+Patheos&utm_content=57&lctg=4407399&rsid=52

What Mr. Michael espouses is essential liberal Christianity which did a lot of the things he talked about starting with the German biblical scholars but turning ultimately into the World Council of Churches. This stripped Christianity of not only the excesses that are pointed at in such critique but also its essence and so became insipid and empty.

I definitely agree that Christianity needs reformation and I believe is in the process of a deep reformation. I am eager for that particularly in the rejection of Americanicity as someone called it. The conflation of nationalism and Christianity for so many has been extremely harmful to the mission of the church. If I do write on this issue of the now and coming reformation I will do so from the view that it is not necessary to throw a good baby out with the stinky bathwater.

By the way, I do imbibe — scotch and bourbon being my favorites but a good aviation martini has been my go to lately. Maybe someday we can sip together…