Countdown Day 35: CONTEST BEGINS! WIN AN ADVANCE COPY OF THE BOOK!

Before sharing today’s quote, I wanted to let you know that Good Books in Bad Times is offering a contest. You can win a pre-publication copy of the new book by replying to a question they raise on their site. Here’s the background:

To celebrate the release of, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions that are Transforming the Faith … GBiBT will be giving away a galley a week until the on-sale date, February 9th. During the coming weeks we will share a new aspect of McLaren’s approach to revitalizing the faith so check back regularly for a chance to win.

So – if you’d like to enter the contest (it looks very easy) – just go to GBiBT. It looks like you’ll have a fresh chance every week.
Here’s today’s quote:

A search for a new kind of Christian faith can’t be reduced to another list of propositions about which debates rage and over which debaters indulge in hostile polemics. Nor can its proponents be content to forge arguments urging converts to defect from the heretical “them” and affiliate with the righteous “us.” (26-27)

From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
“Brian’s writing is brave and honest, vulnerable and courageous, disturbing and unsettling, reassuring and hopeful. Every now and then you come across a book you’ve been waiting for. A New Kind of Christianity is that book.” (Steve Chalke, MBE, founder of Oasis Global, UN Special Advisor on Human Trafficking)