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Brian McLaren speaks at Mars Hill
Former pastor and author Brian McLaren spoke at Brian McLaren’s church, Mars Hill, this past week.
He spoke on the six different narratives we find ourselves trapped in from time to time.
Much of it is similar to what he writes in “Everything Must Change.”
Very good stuff.
Our Father, above us and all around us,
May your unspeakable [...]
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Andrew Jones chats with Brian McLaren
Andrew Jones shared a recent e-mail conversation with pastor, author and speaker Brian McLaren on his blog about his latest book, Everything Must Change.
Great questions from Jones I thought (several occurred to me and several that didn’t – I think I just remained optimistic when something wasn’t directly addressed, it wasn’t because it was purposely [...]
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re: Obama’s speech on race
From Brian McLaren:
Senator Obama’s speech today was, I think, one of the most important speeches of my lifetime. I hope people will read it and ponder it…
I hope each of us can encourage intelligent and civil conversation on the content of this speech. I feel we’re at a moment where our history could take a [...]
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Everything Must Change
Finished reading Everything Must Change today on the way into work.
Excellent. I think as several others have pointed out in our book club – Everything Must Change… but it must begin with ME.
“another world is possible, available now for all who believe.”
referring to those who would rise up against the common framing story we find [...]
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Thank you
From Mike Huckabee:
Dear Faithful Friends,
Last night was a tough one for all of us. While Janet and I stood on the stage, we felt as if we were surrounded by a much larger family than our immediate family. We have been surrounded throughout the process by a large and growing family of faithful [...]
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An incredible, shrinking Gospel
I know – I promised I’d go back and talk more about the security system Brian McLaren talks about in “Everything Must Change.” I will – soon (I hope). But as I read on I have to share some of these thoughts….
“The Gospel of Christ knows of no religion, but social; no holiness but social [...]
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Things Missionaries Never Say
Guys, if you’re in the Ellis County area and you’re not making it on Wednesday mornings you’re really missing out.
This week Brian shared 5 things missionaries never say:
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It goes right along with everything I’m reading, hearing and discussing right now. It matches the encounter 9 discussion and the Inverted [...]
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The Peace Insurgency
I don’t know about anyone else, but this has really irked me the last couple days…
I read a chapter of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change and I can’t decide if I should throw the book across the room in disgust or quit working and join an anti-war protest. This suicidal machine he’s talked about is [...]
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What Jesus Meant
The popular Christian question “What would Jesus do?” is not an especially useful one, Wills notes, for Jesus did many things we would not, and should not, do. Should Christian believers today, Wills asks, “like Jesus, forbid a man from attending his own father’s funeral… or tell others to hate their parents?… Are they justified [...]
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re: Everything Must Change
Some more thoughts from Chp 3 of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change:
Trying to spur some more discussion for our book club….
In Chp 3 McLaren talks about his visit to Bujumbura in Africa. As a meeting he was scheduled to speak at began he writes that the guy who brought him to the conference says [...]
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