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To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall

Brian D. McLaren

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
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

Communities Network Our Persons
A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
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Fire Ignorance Passion
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
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
A sacred and almost unspeakable pleasure, but the consumer wrongly thinks that one finds this pleasure by having more and more possessions instead of possessing them more truly through grateful contemplation. And here we are, living in an economy that perpetuates this tragedy.
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More Pleasure Possessions Scared Thing
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
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.
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Future Needful Provide Say Urgently
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.
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Believe Our Suicidal World
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.
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Intelligence Progressive Realization Thing
Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Bible Biblical Lenses
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
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry.
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Christian God Humble Poetry
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
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways – in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters.
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Encouragement Inspiration Spiritual

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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