“To put it one way: The question isn’t so much ‘how are we different in what we believe/think?’ as it is ‘how are we connected? what can I appreciate and learn from that other person’s perspective/tradition/tribe/camp?’” - Steve Knight

Well said. If you read the whole post from which it comes, there is a good mix of wisdom and pointlessness, I think. I haven’t gotten to the section of Tony Jones’ book referred to here (I just started it), but the whole “third way” concept seems a bit anti-emergent to me. This quote, however, resonates well for me.