the sky is big in pasadena (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
i had a full weekend. after the wedding which i posted about yesterday, i dropped in on the last few minutes of a conversation on the future of the church in the united states between mclaren and fuller professors, barry taylor and ryan bolger. a really provocative event
Threads from Henry's Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
My blog subtitle reads: Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian . One common response to this line is to tell me that it’s impossible to combine those four things into one, so I’d like to provide a few notes on why I use these four labels when self-identifying. First, let me note that I did not take any of these from the subtitle of Brian...
Out of the Depths (Free subscription) | yesterday
Just a quick snippet from "A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church by Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren, and J. Haselmayer. " These guys are on to something important. When modern Protestants feel afraid of opening the door to this new approach to interpretation, when they feel that deconstruction is the first step on a slippery slide to nihilism and chaos, then at...
Pyromaniacs (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... evangelical movement today. He leaves little doubt about how he would respond to the writings of Brian McLaren, Steve Chalke, Tony Campolo, the Open Theists, and their fellow post-evangelicals. Here are some especially poignant excerpts: That these gentlemen . . . are not liberal, but intolerant to the last degree, is evident, from their superciliousness towards those poor simpletons...
Ex-Gay Watch (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... of Uganda. Its signatories include broadly evangelical luminaries Ronald J Sider, Jim Wallis, Brian McLaren and Tony Campolo. Our Christian faith recognizes violence, harassment and unjust treatment of any human being as a betrayal of Jesus’ commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. As followers of the teachings of Christ, we must express profound dismay at a bill currently...
