Hey... why don't I have a "title" box? No fair.

I really don’t see where his statements were all that controversial. Controversial enough for 20% of his congregation, but I think we (on this board) have already deduced that God is likely to be apolitical.

Well, unfortunately, what may be a "no duh" to the four of us is not so obvious to a good amount of the Christian population. I wasn't trying to stir anything up here, just a general "yay" (or, to be Christian-culturally-correct, "a praise").

Is aggressively touting apoliticalness its own form of politicization? Gregory Boyd chose to make it an issue, and his issue resulted in Church divisiveness. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

I've heard similar arguments--for example, explaining why there's really no such thing as agnosticism. I don't think it works here. At some point truth has to trump "unity". I understand the whole "grace in non-essentials" bit, but in my opinion, this may not be so much of a non-essential.

And I’ll have to debate the Open Theism thing at a later date. Either you’ve misrepresented me, or Wikipedia is inaccurate as written.

Probably the former--my bad.