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Brian D. McLaren Here's the new song - to be born - that didn't come through yesterday. I hope you'll enjoy it!
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... demonstrated in twenty fascinating minutes by hans rosling ... here. (Thanks, Jared!) ... It is the societal map of greed, lust, arrogance, fear, racism, domination, oppression, revenge, and injustice that [Jesus] wants to redraw...
Here's the Q: You missed a great event at C21. Sorry you weren't there but you were proclaimed "The McLaren" at the conference, I don't know whether that will buy anything at MacDonalds. Question - Where are you now on atonement? I'm reading everything I can find and like Denny Weaver .....
In spite of our diverse backgrounds, we all agreed something isn’t working in the way we’re doing Christianity anymore. An...
Roman Catholicism found itself in a situation remarkably similar to Protestantism … splitting themselves into left/liberal and right/conservative parties, both sides increasingly reacting to one another and losing touch with the changing world outside their religiously gated community. ...
Here the Q: "Hi Brian, thnx for being a clear & generous voice in the emerging choir. I was thinking about what you said once about faith, hope and love. You said: faith > spirituality, hope > mission and love > community...
Modern Protestantism in both its liberal and conservative forms was being lost in transition and lost in translation. Both forms of modernist Christianity seemed equally clueless in understanding the nonmodern and postmodern people outside their stained-glass windows...
Here's the Q: I am writing a paper for masters of divinity class, on the Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "religionless Christianity" discussions from his prison letters. Do you believe Bonhoeffer's thoughts are being worked out in the emerging church movement...
I took a break to enjoy Thanksgiving without blogging yesterday ... here's yesterday's countdown post: By the grace of God, I held on to the something real long enough to begin to figure out what the something wrong might be...
Little by little, a new coherence began to emerge. That coherence was more a new way of believing, less a rebuilt system of beliefs. (8) From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
A song I posted several months ago, but that is still singing in my heart:
Morning after morning, I woke up in the brutal tension between something real and something wrong in Christian faith. The sense of something real kept me in ministry and in Christian faith; the sense of something wrong kept me looking for a way out...
Here's part 1 of my most recent post at sojo.net, relating to the recent "Manhattan Declaration" from some important religious leaders ... Here's part 2. After the jump, an important release from the White House about Native Americans and Thanksgiving .....
