I found Brian's book to be very helpful for me as a recovering fundamentalist. Brian's questions, thoughts, and reflections are refreshing, insightful, paradigm-shifting, healing, open-ended, gracious, humble, rooted, Jesus-centered, and kingdom-loving. To me, it is clear that Brian understands ...
'A New Kind of Christianity' suffers from the same problems as Brian McLaren's other books - lots of 'right on' sentiments, an occasional piece of piercing Scriptural exegesis but little in the way of practical conclusions.As usual, McLaren pitches his work at leaders and other members of the eva...
I love Brian McLaren. I love his humility. His insistence on loving the "other," his call to include, to serve, to respect. This was a good read, although I kept feeling like he drove the point home a little too repetitiously. I kept feeling like, "You already said this, but what you said was go...
“Isn’t the real scandal not that our religious leaders might be imagined walking across a road or talking as friends together in a bar, but rather that their followers are found speaking against one another as enemies, day after day in situation after situation?” Brian McLaren makes the argument ...