"Often I find that those who call themselves Liberal, are as boxed in as those who call themselves Conservative.  I don't find either label comfortable.  I like to read things from both camps--each can learn from the other.  I am weary of put-downs from both positions about the other's character.  I have good friends at opposite points of theology and of eco-justice.

Personally, I like to read (on paper or on the web) The Living Church and The Witness, The Anglican Digest and The Other Side, Sojourners and the desert fathers and mothers on Innerlight, e-mails from Anglican Communion and the Am Anglican Council, Ecumenical News International and Episcopal News Service, World Wide Faith News and the Diocesan Connections, etc.  In addition I have and sign petitions to a wide variety of Eco-Justice issues--i.e., native peoples genocide and land, fair wages, water quality, health care, animal concerns, etc.  Keeping informed by a variety of sources, gives one a broader bases on which to ultimately make decisions.

If we are "Via Media", than it seems to me that we need to be listening with our hearts--"if I have not love....."--to all positions--and there are more than two side to issues!  Let us not be just a group of liberals, but rather those who stands in the middle and turns to listen to all.  Only by standing in the middle of a group, can one see equally well into all sides.

In a sense, it is "heart" that has hooked the Anglican Communion together thus far.