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Originally Posted by Sister Alvear
I should not have posted...did so without thinking...
Hope all is well...love you and am praying for you. Please do remember us in your prayers.
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I dunno, Sister A. Your perspective is important because you are an OP believer who is on the "outside" of the UPC.
There has been a long history of conflict between the UPC on "those on the outside." Fortunately, there has also been a history of positive engagements. But to learn from their action the various players do need feedback.
Where I think you :erred" was those years ago when you simply chose to ignore the "bad taste" that the encounter had left for you. A much younger DKB could have probably benefited from some push back at the time. My own recollections of that "younger DKB was that he bristled easily and hadn't developed a very thick skin yet.
(I once suggested to him that he include more Unitarian historical sources in some of his discussion on the Trinitarian controversies. Being the oldest and largest "non-trinitarian" religious body for most of the past 300 years or so, they can be an excellent source of information on how Trinitarian doctrine has developed since the Protestant Reformation. His response was to essentially give me a "raspberry" in front of a room full of fellow ministers. I took it in stride and had even expected it - though he did bounce back and say some very nice things. Going in, folks that knew him had warned me he could be "thin skinned.")
I think he has matured nicely and I respect him highly, but he's still a human being and like the rest of humanity, he can only benefit from some well intentioned criticism.
You did nothing wrong, IMHO.
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