How's This for an Opening Sentence?

"The following essay is—whatever its errors or other faults—at least timely."

Thus begins Robert W. Jenson in "Can Ethical Disagreement Divide the Church?" the lead paper in The Morally Divided Body: Ethical Disagreement and the Disunity of the Church, the just published book from the 2010 Conference of that same title sponsored by Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

FWIW, the essay is more than
just timely.