Brian D. McLaren

Brian D. McLaren

Best-selling author and intellectual leader of “emerging church”

“On Faith” panelist Brian D. McLaren is a best-selling author, pastor and intellectual leader of “emerging church,” a Christian evangelical movement that seeks new ways to worship and understand the gospel in a postmodern era. He serves as a board chair for Sojourners/Call to Renewal, an evangelical social justice ministry, and is a founding member of Red Letter Christians, a network of progressive evangelical leaders who seek to apply Christian values to a broad agenda of concerns, including poverty, environmental care and advancing peace. McLaren, who is founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in Maryland, has lectured widely in the United States and abroad. His topics include postmodern thought and culture, Biblical studies, evangelism, inter-religious dialogue, ecology, and social justice. His eight books include A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, and The Secret Message of Jesus. In 2005, McLaren was named by TIME magazine as one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals. Close.

Brian D. McLaren

Best-selling author and intellectual leader of “emerging church”

“On Faith” panelist Brian D. McLaren is a best-selling author, pastor and intellectual leader of “emerging church,” a Christian evangelical movement that seeks new ways to worship and understand the gospel in a postmodern era. more »

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Time to Renounce the Renouncing

We should collectively denounce and renounce denouncing and renouncing.

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anais:

Hello Brian McLaren

I am from Holland.

I have a very good reason why I should not join the so called progressive left wing christians like JesusRadicals or the Sorjourners.

Besides right wing and religious right or christian fundamentalism I came to know that there exists something I call left hypocricy. I was around in anarchists movements but it seemed to me that the same patterns you see in society appear in these movements. However, my english is not good enough to have discussions with you.

http://www.antenna.nl/anaisnin/drones.htm

http://www.antenna.nl/anaisnin/anais.htm

Voice of Reason:

The Professional Evangelical Clergy would become unemployed if their flocks converted to

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS.

Good Grief!

Doesn't the title of our Church tell you dooms dayers anything?

We ARE NOT the Mormon Church. This is a nickname.

And all of our clergy are volunteers who work full-time jobs and then give another 10-20 hours of service to their 150 family flocks.

VERY WELL ORGANIZED. All volunteer. All worshipping God the Father and His son, Jesus Christ.

henk:

something totally different;

what does Brian Mclaren think of Richard Hoagland's book Dark Mission?

Proclaiming that the discovery of a robot head on the moon is the biggest discovery in the human history! Which changes everything! The implications of that one fact and the possibility that the astronauts of Apollo 17 brought it home would have sent shockwaves all around the world at least among the “in crowd.” This discovery was quite likely the real reason why the entire Apollo program was suddenly and so unceremoniously terminated. And why no one has gone near the moon for almost 40 years. The overriding question then becomes: what if there are others like him out there… But still functioning?!

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=waX_v51pY2U

Just google for Project Camelot interviews Richard Hoagland on Youtube.

And what does McLaren think of Dr. David Jacob's book The Threat?

http://www.ufoabduction.com/21stcentury.htm

henk:

on McLaren's latest book:

I was surprised when I read something you sent about when the Jews left Egypt. Am surprised that the one writing that wasn't aware that Jacob had 12 sons, not just Judah (the Jews). All we hear about is the one tribe. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, NOT just the Jews!! Abraham was the father of MANY nations, not just one. To someone who is so into studying the word, this is wrong to declare such.

Allison:

All right: John McCain actively SOUGHT Parsley and Hagee's endorsement. He is selling out to the far right, to the "agents of intolerance," as he will do anything to win. (After all, he has literally embraced GWB, the man who slimed him so mercilessly in 2000.) THAT tells me a lot about McCain's character. But Mclaren is right, the media is focusing on Wright to appeal to our basest instincts regarding race in this country. The media love to appeal to the reptilian part of our brains instead of discussing real matters that affect our lives.

JND:

Garyd - beat me too the punch. You gotta realize, McLaren's a pomo obfuscator. Truth is secondary to him achieving his ends.

Garyd:

Mr. Mclaren you walked right into the trap. The notion that there is some sort of moral equivalency between McCain accepting an endorsement from a church he's never attended and Obama's pastor of twenty years is such errant nonsense that that only a leftist would advance it.

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