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Q & R: Sacrifice for our Sins?
Here's the Q:
On July 10, Richard Rohr’s daily meditation featured and excerpt from your book The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian. I was intrigued by the information regarding Hosea, Isaiah, David and Jesus’ stance that God does not desire sacrifice. The scriptures quoted are not new to me, but within the context of the excerpt the paradox struck me of sacrifice being displeasing to God yet, according to many and the denomination that I have grown up with and still attend, Jesus was God’s sacrificial lamb to save us from our sin. How would you speak/reconcile this?If you have addressed this further in the book or in any other material, please provide that information.I have been wrestling with this area for some time now as my faith journey deepens. To accept Jesus as coming to this world to die for our sins seems like a very ego based response from us. There has to be more to the story. I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Q & R: Great Spiritual Migration Resources?
Here's the Q:
Our church wants to “formally” join the movement in this Spiritual Migration. Our first group to go through the book asked if there is a “primer” or summary available for people who might not read the full book. I have ordered the Cokesbury packet for a group study. I’m not sure that’s the same thing.Also – Brian McLaren recommends in his book that new curriculum be developed, especially for children and teens. I would like to know you know of anyone specifically doing that.Thank you.
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God Unbound: Theology in the Wild (aka The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey)
This fall, I have one book being released under two titles. In the UK, it's God Unbound: Theology in the Wild, and in the US, it's The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey.
I loved writing this book, and have told several people I feel like it's my best writing so far. I'm honored by these endorsements from people I respect:
"Brian McLaren has written a great many life-changing books, but this may be the most significant. He uses a new voice here to describe his own life-changing voyage. I found myself reading him in a whisper, if such a thing is possible, for fear of interrupting the flow of his gorgeous, intimate, and brilliant prose. My only caveat is this: do not read this book unless you are ready for your life to change too, for you will never see your place in the universe the same way again." --Barbara Brown Taylor, author of An Altar in the World
"Set among the birthplace of Darwin's world-shaping theory, McLaren lays out a possible evolution of the Christian faith that is simultaneously personal and socially responsible." --Mike McHargue, co-founder of The Liturgists
"This is a genial but sharp-eyed book that gets at some essential and difficult truths about our species at this late date in human history." --Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
"McLaren takes a very personal journey as he traces the steps of Darwin. In doing so, he reveals that there is indeed 'grandeur in this view of life,' as first articulated by Darwin, and, more than that, there's reason to hope we can evolve as a species in this time of ecological collapse." --Tripp Fuller, founder and cohost of Homebrewed Christianity podcast
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