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James Wall, editor of The Christian Century, offers (link above) a promising analysis and suggestion for a change in the terminology we "progressive" Christians use to refer to ourselves. Explaining why, for the most part, we are no longer "mainline," and that we are "liberal" perhaps only in a vaguely historical or technical sense that is no longer accurate, he suggests "Christian humanism." I find this proposal appealing both because it helps focus our self-understanding and because it gives succinct and positive expression to our identity. We'll be able to say what we are instead of only what we are not. No more, "Well, we're not evangelical and we're not fundamentalistic and we're not .…"