The World Together blog : Brian McLaren
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Gone from mystery into mystery
Brian McLaren
I’ve been humming Bruce Cockburn’s song today, after learning yesterday about the passing of Dallas Willard, who was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer late last year.
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Interfaith misunderstanding in America
Brian McLaren
It’s been a great year for interfaith misunderstanding in America.
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Whether Christian writing today has equal authority as the Bible
Brian McLaren
Someone recently wrote to Brian McLaren: “I’ve read many of your books and have found them both inspiring and helpful. I have a question which I would be interested and grateful to have your response to:
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McLaren: Does evangelism = proselytizing?
Brian McLaren
A friend of Brian McLaren, who is Hindu, recently sent Brian a question: I find the idea of proselytizing to be, at best, patronizing toward the other. It flies in the face of Vaclav Havel’s dictum to “keep the company of those who seek the Truth, and run from those who have found it.” How do we deal with this in a multi-faith world?
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Is the Emerging Church movement fizzling out?
Brian McLaren
Someone recently wrote to Brian McLaren: “I am a former Christian fundamentalist who first discovered the Emerging Church discussion several years ago (at the behest of many of my friends). The message and discussions of the EC greatly resonated with me and has greatly changed much of the way I now view my own faith and the way I view others … all for the better. I have read several of your books, and several others from other authors/teachers associated with the EC and almost always greatly learn from them. However, I have been a lone ranger as an EC “fan” within my own circle of friends. And I have never really “come out of the theological closet” for fear of backlash. But, as someone who has followed the EC discussion for several years, I’m beginning to wonder if the EC movement is starting to fizzle out. It seems many EC resources are becoming less available. I noticed EC websites and the EC blogosphere are becoming fewer and fewer. It seemed to me the EC was really strong several years ago, but seems to be losing steam now. Do you feel the EC movement is still very strong today and still growing? Or, has it lost it’s steam? If it is still going strong, can you please provide some recent examples of this?
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Penal substitutionary atonement
Brian McLaren
Someone recently wrote to Brian McLaren: “I am intrigued by the growing debate on penal substitution. My history of over 35 years is — started Baptist, migrated to neo-Pentecostal community church, then Vineyard, and now ‘outside the institutional church.’ Where does the problem lie with this theory? Does it matter?”
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What happened to Adam and Eve on ‘that day’?
Brian McLaren
[Editor’s note: Someone recently said to Brian McLaren: “God told Adam and Eve that if they ate “the fruit” they would die. Did God change God’s mind after they ate it? Or was their consequence to die in a gradual manner?”]
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What I would tell my children about sexuality
Brian McLaren
[Editor’s note: Read a response to Brian McLaren’s blog post here.]
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How I understand atonement and Jesus’ message
Brian McLaren
[Editor’s note: Someone recently asked Brian McLaren, “How do you justify your rejection of the atonement based on what was said at the Last Supper noted in Matthew 26?”]
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Strengths and weaknesses of missional communities
Brian McLaren
[Editor’s note: Someone recently asked Brian McLaren for his thoughts on “missional communities.”]
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