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A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn’t claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

Brian D. McLaren

A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
BRIAN D. MCLAREN

Fire Ignorance Passion
The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can’t yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit’s help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable.
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Church Grace Ideas
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Brilliant Church Good Visionaries
You can’t capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you,
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God Humble Overwhelmed
And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?
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Appreciate Granger Legitimate Mission
Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?
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Killers Spinning Violence
At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter.
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Community Religious Spiritual
When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
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Church Out Way Work
You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.
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Healthier Person Understand
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
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Christian Wall Way
I was relaxing in my parents’ swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: ‘How’s the ministry world going?’
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Couple Jesus Swimming
Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope’s, whoever’s) is orthodox, meaning true, and here’s my honest answer: a little, but not yet.
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Christian Couple Wall
A shared reappraisal of Jesus’ message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue – and it doesn’t seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue.
BRIAN D. MCLAREN

Future Needful Provide Say Urgently
I don’t think we’ve got the gospel right yet.I don’t think the liberals have it right. But I don’t think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.
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Liberal Orthodoxy Right Thinking
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Bible Biblical Lenses
I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.
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Art Faces Jesus

A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn’t claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

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A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn’t claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.

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