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.

Thanks for the tip, Dauer. :) i've been meaning to tell you that your conversations with Bananabrain have been wonderful to read and gave me the courage to start posting in the first place. Thank you for making me feel at home.

Welcome to the forums. Now that there are three Jews posting hopefully we'll see at least 5 Jewish opinions. Yes!

As a technical aside, to respond to a comment that someone else has made in your visitor messages section directly, click the "view conversation" hyperlink and respond there. It will leave a message for them on their page and they will see it in their user control panel.

-- Dauer