When I was struggling with whether to leave, I read two types of writing. Writers like Spong, Borg and Vospar comforted those on the fringes of my religious tradition, calling all manner of disbelief acceptable. Having written such books, I knew their inadequacies. The rest were anti-religious. Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris threw out the baby with the bathwater, demanding total renunciation and accusing religion of every imaginable evil. Their judgments rang false. What I sought was someone living in the middle -- appreciative of all the goodness of religion, but acknowledging its ultimate insufficiency for many. Frustrated, I wrote what I could not find.
-- Jim Mulholland, "Why I Left Religion, Wrote a Book and Alienated Friends and Family"
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