It’s not all dichotomies, just the Platonic dichotomies that bother me. The reason I want to move away from them is that I think an emerging church should be joined with an emerging vocabulary—indeed I think that one is dependent on the other. To trade on entrenched distinctions serves only to reinforce the entrenched distinctions. Life is indeed made up of “practicable polarities.” And these polarities have effects in practical terms. So the polarities that we use not only reflect but also reproduces a way of life. To say things differently is part of the process of forging a new way of life.