I'm glad to hear I played some part in helping you to feel comfortable being more active on the site and I hope you find your time here pleasant. Based on that and some statements I'd noticed in your posts, you might find this thread of interest, particularly from post 8 on, if you hadn't seen it:
http://www.interfaith.org/forum/how-...cess-6498.html
Gabbai Seth Fischman --he runs the blog at the reb zalman legacy project -- and I got into a debate about why any of the ideas coming out of Renewal are important and or valid among other things. He had a lot of really interesting things to say and I liked that it helped to point out some of the diversity even within the sub-group of folks interested in Jewish Renewal.