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  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture. Download This Image
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
  • Brian D. McLaren Quote - Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

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 - 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.

    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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?

    What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?

    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 - 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
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. Download This Image

    Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs.

    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 - 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 - …the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things. Download This Image

    …the tragedy of consumerism: one acquires more and more things without taking the time to ever see and know them, and thus one never truly enjoys them. One has without truly having. The consumer is right-there is pleasure to be had in good things.

    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 - 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 - 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? Download This Image

    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?

    BRIAN D. MCLAREN
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian D. McLaren Quote - You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.

    You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.

    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 - 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 think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.

    I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.

    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