Good Marginal Thinking

The heroes of church history began as reflective Christians who doubted
what
everyone else took for granted by Brian McLaren

Your skin color can make you marginal in some settings. Your level of
income or education can do it
in others. Your worship style or theological persuasion or political
party can put you at or beyond
the fringe in still others. Being, thinking, looking, or acting
different from the majority can push
you to the margins.

I'd like to speak up on behalf of a group of people in our churches who
feel different pretty often,
and therefore feel marginalized pretty often. Dan Taylor, in The Myth of
Certainty (IVP, 2000),
calls them "reflective Christians." Less sympathetic people call them
doubters.