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2013-03-05T19:01:13-04:00

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Joining the Resurrection

Last updated on: March 5, 2013 at 7:01 pm By Brian McLaren

Easter celebrates not only the resurrection of one man, but the resurrection of the whole human race. Read more

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2013-03-28T11:53:30-04:00

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Drones and Good Friday

Last updated on: March 28, 2013 at 11:53 am By Brian McLaren

One of my Good Friday disciplines is to remember Jesus’ words, “Don’t weep for me, daughters of Jerusalem.” I then ask for whom I should weep today. Someday President Obama and all Americans will be ashamed of this … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/26/drone-visualization-pakistan_n_2957779.html So, tomorrow, as I remember Jesus and his suffering, I will think of people suffering today, people with whom Jesus was and is in complete solidarity … in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Congo, in Israel-Palestine, in my own state and neighborhood... Read more

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2013-03-19T16:42:27-04:00

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Why I Support Rob Bell’s Stance on Gay Marriage

Last updated on: March 19, 2013 at 4:42 pm By Brian McLaren

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2013-03-18T15:15:39-04:00

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Q & R: Trinity – A stumbling block for unity?

Last updated on: March 18, 2013 at 3:15 pm By Brian McLaren

Here’s the Question: In your book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road? are you saying this Doctrine should stay around but in the reformulated state of “Social Trinitarianism” because you believe it or because we can not move forward without bringing it along with us? It seems to us (the study group I am in) that this Doctrine in particular will continue to be a stumbling block for unity among the believers of the One True... Read more

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2013-03-05T19:04:23-04:00

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Lent: Maybe It’s About Adding, Not Subtracting

Last updated on: March 5, 2013 at 7:04 pm By Brian McLaren

Adding something good to your life during Lent -- say, reading the gospels -- may mean giving up stuff that you need to give up anyway. Read more

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2013-03-04T19:23:24-04:00

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Q&R: Faith in Public Life

Last updated on: March 4, 2013 at 7:23 pm By Brian McLaren

How do you distinguish between those moral issues that ought to be confronted in the Church alone, and those moral issues that ought to be confronted by the Church in the culture at large? Read more

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2013-02-26T13:55:43-04:00

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Q&R: Church Buildings, Yes or No?

Last updated on: February 26, 2013 at 1:55 pm By Brian McLaren

If I were planting a church today, I might focus on quarterly weekend retreats and annual weeks of mission or pilgrimage over weekly meetings. Read more

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2013-02-06T15:50:28-04:00

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Q&R: Help on Biblical Violence

Last updated on: February 6, 2013 at 3:50 pm By Brian McLaren

Here’s the Q: I bet you get tons of emails, and I’ve never written one like this before to someone I don’t know at all, but here goes… I’m a Christian and an intellectual/kind-of philosopher from Texas. About 7 years ago I had a really intense experience and was fully convinced I was losing my faith, that my brain simply was not capable of believing in the God of Christianity. I was at a fundamentalist five-point calvinist church, which has... Read more

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2013-02-01T19:57:08-04:00

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Hell. Yes?

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 7:57 pm By Brian McLaren

I remember when I first began to feel that I would have to do some writing on the subject of hell. “Please, Lord, let someone else do this,” I prayed. Eventually, though, it was clear that I should venture out and grapple with the subject in my book The Last Word and the Word After That. Since then, several of my good friends have also jumped from the frying pan into the fire (so to speak) and dared to propose alternatives... Read more

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2013-01-28T15:26:01-04:00

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Reading the Bible in 2013: A Special Opportunity

Last updated on: January 28, 2013 at 3:26 pm By Brian McLaren

Some people read the Bible to justify violence – even to present God as violent. Others read it to justify peace – and to present God as the voice calling us to reconciliation. Some read the Bible as an anti-science tract – rejecting evidence for evolution and climate change, for example, based on Bible quotations. Others read the Bible in ways that enrich rather than undermine their engagement with science, and vice versa. They see deep compatibility rather than conflict.... Read more

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