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  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.
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I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

Brian D. McLaren

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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.

    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.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

    I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

    I have a problem when they ask me this question because it assumes that the primary purpose of Jesus’ coming and the primary message of Jesus was a message about how to get to heaven.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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?’

    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?’

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause. Download This Image

    Our networks of dialogue and action thus extend beyond Christian communities to persons of all faiths, as well as to communities that are not themselves faith-based. We welcome allies and allegiances wherever we find common cause.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. Download This Image

    Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Download This Image

    The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - The thing I love about The Beatitudes Society is they represent faith and intelligence on fire and there’s enthusiasm and passion and a realization that a more open and progressive approach to faith is something to celebrate.

    The thing I love about The Beatitudes Society is they represent faith and intelligence on fire and there’s enthusiasm and passion and a realization that a more open and progressive approach to faith is something to celebrate.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways – in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters.

    Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways – in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter.

    At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do. Download This Image

    So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus’ hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking.

    We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus’ hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking.

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN