Brian McLaren
Easter celebrates not only the resurrection of one man, but the resurrection of the whole human race. Read more
Easter celebrates not only the resurrection of one man, but the resurrection of the whole human race. Read more
One of my Good Friday disciplines is to remember Jesus’ words, “Don’t weep for me, daughters of Jerusalem.” I then ask for whom I should weep today. Someday President Obama and all Americans will be ashamed of this … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/drone-visualization-pakistan_n_2957779.html So, tomorrow, as I remember Jesus and his suffering, I will think of people suffering today, people with whom Jesus was and is in complete solidarity … in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Congo, in Israel-Palestine, in my own state and neighborhood... Read more
Here’s the Question: In your book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? are you saying this Doctrine should stay around but in the reformulated state of “Social Trinitarianism” because you believe it or because we can not move forward without bringing it along with us? It seems to us (the study group I am in) that this Doctrine in particular will continue to be a stumbling block for unity among the believers of the One True... Read more
Adding something good to your life during Lent -- say, reading the gospels -- may mean giving up stuff that you need to give up anyway. Read more
How do you distinguish between those moral issues that ought to be confronted in the Church alone, and those moral issues that ought to be confronted by the Church in the culture at large? Read more
If I were planting a church today, I might focus on quarterly weekend retreats and annual weeks of mission or pilgrimage over weekly meetings. Read more
Here’s the Q: I bet you get tons of emails, and I’ve never written one like this before to someone I don’t know at all, but here goes… I’m a Christian and an intellectual/kind-of philosopher from Texas. About 7 years ago I had a really intense experience and was fully convinced I was losing my faith, that my brain simply was not capable of believing in the God of Christianity. I was at a fundamentalist five-point calvinist church, which has... Read more
I remember when I first began to feel that I would have to do some writing on the subject of hell. “Please, Lord, let someone else do this,” I prayed. Eventually, though, it was clear that I should venture out and grapple with the subject in my book The Last Word and the Word After That. Since then, several of my good friends have also jumped from the frying pan into the fire (so to speak) and dared to propose alternatives... Read more
Some people read the Bible to justify violence – even to present God as violent. Others read it to justify peace – and to present God as the voice calling us to reconciliation. Some read the Bible as an anti-science tract – rejecting evidence for evolution and climate change, for example, based on Bible quotations. Others read the Bible in ways that enrich rather than undermine their engagement with science, and vice versa. They see deep compatibility rather than conflict.... Read more
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