Well done! Much is quotable—and shareable (is that a word?). But you got me thinking about fundamentalists in general, because they come in all varieties, believers, nonbelievers and (a few) agnostics.

It seems to me that there is a search for certainty that some leaders are glad to help. And faith cannot be certainty. But if you are certain then you must share what you are certain about, especially when not sharing will inflict all kinds of horrors upon people you care about (or not).

Bishop John Spong, my fellow bishop in the Episcopal Church House of Bishops, now in Larger Life, was raised in a fundamentalist church. He had a radical conversion experience. However, he was just as much a fundamentalist as a "progressive" Christian than before. And I don't think he was an exception in that sense.

Love is not an intellectual certainty, nor is it just a feeling. To love as Jesus loves is first of all making a decision, and then secondly, releasing the need to be certain and rest in God's love.

As Bishop Michael Curry says all the time, "If it's not about love it's not about God." That is actually a hard saying, it seems to me.