Basically, here's a chance for us to share some stories about how we got to the place that makes participation in SOUL Kos something we want to do.
In my case, the liberalism came first. I was a borderline red-diaper baby; one of my childrens' books was a Soviet-issued collection of tales from Russian history. I went to my first demonstration in Kindergarten (the chant was "Keep the Budget" - though none of us had any idea what a budget was), went to the first demonstration where I had a clue of what the issues were in fourth grade, and got arrested for civil disobedience the day after my eighteenth birthday. So, liberal perspectives were just part of the scenery growing up.
Religion, on the other hand, was something I encountered more gradually, and became more and more intrigued with until I got to college and started going to church. There were a lot of ways in which I felt a connection between my liberalism and my nascent faith - after all, my mother reported that she got her liberal values from the Mennonite faith that she had left and I had returned to. In other respects, I felt more tension between liberalism and religion, especially when it came to sexual ethics - after all, part of the reason I turned to religion was to avoid the fact that I was gay. I told all of this in much more detail in So, How Did a Nice Gay Boy Like You Become a Theologian.
Where it really all came together for me was in the thought of Rosemary Radford Ruether.
So, how did you get here?