Timothy Dalrymple at Patheos examines “the ways in which progressive Christians talk about conservative Christians.” He argues that progressive Christians are doing a disservice to themselves when they scorn conservative Christians. Heated rhetoric, he writes, only emphasizes stereotypes that hurt the entire Christian “church and its witnesses.” Dalrymple writes, “I’ve seen a lot of young, progressive evangelicals denouncing and caricaturing their conservative brethren for their “culture war” concerns … If we truly care for the public witness of the church, then we (liberal and conservative) need to stop slandering and caricaturing the other half of the church.”