Countdown Day 4
Thanks to all of you who have pre-ordered the book. I just got my copy the other day, and yesterday met the first person who received hers. Awaiting a book release is always exciting and a little bit scary ... My prayer and hope is that all who read the book will find their faith deepened and their love for God and neighbor strengthened.
It’s time to abandon the long experimental project of recasting the Bible in an alien narrative and reframing God in an alien story. It’s time to stop holding God’s people captive in that alien construction. God liberated God’s people from the economic and political concentration camp of the Egyptians and Babylonians; perhaps now it’s time to be liberated from the conceptual tyranny of the Greco-Romans as well. (66)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
"A new reformation is taking place in Christianity. Brian McLaren is one of its leading voices and A New Kind of Christianity is a roadmap for this reformation. This is a very important book." (Adam Hamilton, author of Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White and Senior Pastor, The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection.)
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Creation Care Liturgy
My friend John van de Laar in South Africa created this liturgy that he offered to make available to others. Thank God for the growing corps of creative liturgists who are helping us celebrate "a new kind of Christianity!"
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Creation Care Liturgy
My friend John van de Laar in South Africa created this liturgy that he offered to make available to others. Thank God for the growing corps of creative liturgists who are helping us celebrate "a new kind of Christianity!"
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Countdown Day 5
Today's quote:
The wild, passionate, creative, liberating, hope-inspiring God whose image emerges in these three sacred narratives is not the dread cosmic dictator of the six-line Greco-Roman framework. No, that deity, we must conclude, is an idol, a damnable idol. Yes, that idol is popular, perhaps even predominant, and defended by many a well-meaning but misguided scholar and fire-breathing preacher. But in the end, you cannot serve two masters, Theos and Elohim, the god of the Greco-Roman philosophers and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the violent god of profit proclaimed by empire and the compassionate God of justice proclaimed by the prophets. (65)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)
"A New Kind of Christianity is a stellar accomplishment, a combination of hard tack fact and unfettered hope, an overview in delightful narrative of the long way of our coming to this time and of the multiform ways of our arriving. In every way, a dispatch from the front." (-Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence )
Here's the thinkfwd interview from theooze.tv:
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Note from Australia … blindfolded, warped, completely changed
I was struck in this email by strong words like "blindfolded" and "warped." This is how so many people feel. The way of Christ is about seeing and healing, not blinding and warping!
I’m not sure if you will read this, but I have just finished reading ‘the story we find ourselves in’. It really moved me and inspired me and I wanted to tell you Thank you! I have read 2 of your books now and heard you speak when you visited Sydney a few months ago and my thinking has completely changed.
I have been a Christian for a long time and yet I feel like I have been blindfolded and I am only just starting to see clearly and I cant believe how warped my thinking and beliefs have been. So anyway, I just wanted to say Thank you.
Thanks so much for this encouragement. Keep up the good work in Sydney!
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