I describe myself as a non-theist since, as for many of my colleagues, it is easy for me to come up with a creative definition for the word “god.”  I choose not to use that word, however, because to do so continues to allow those who believe in an interventionist theistic big G god to continue to believe that is what I am talking about.  But I think it is high time we stopped feeding the acrimony between atheists and people of any faith tradition and start looking at the values that lie at the heart of whatever it is we believe.  If those values are grounded in a respect for the dignity of all life and in creating and sustaining right relationship with self, others, and the planet, then who cares what religious or philosophical perspective one holds?  I am seeking a way for liberal Christianity to move beyond the confines of its own divisive theology into the shared space of that values-based spirituality.  The fact that liberal Christianity is where the scholarship that challenges it to do that was born and nurtured is all the more reason for it to do so.