Maybe I was reading a different manifesto from Julie Clawson. I wasn’t aware that it was attacking her, the emerging church movement, or a concern for justice and the kingdom.

A concern for justice can be both a dead and live thing, as far as Christianity is concerned. The spirit of Christ makes a concern for justice quite different from a concern for justice per se. That’s not to say that anyone outside the Christian faith community who is concerned for justice does not exhibit the spirit of Christ.

The central issue is the spirit of Christ, apart from whom, I would dare to say, nobody has successfully or with integrity been able to combine a concern for justice, which in itself can become monstrous legalism, with an ability to express grace, which in itself can become libertinistic licence (British spelling).

So yes, as far as the words on the page go, I go along with Sweet and Viola. (Who are they anyway?).