Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Peace (Part 2)
OCT 9, 2013 | BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- If we want to move beyond the vicious cycles of offense and revenge that dominate the status quo - and result...
Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Peace (Part 1)
OCT 8, 2013 | BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- The Al-Shabaab terrorists who slaughtered over 60 fellow human beings in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall...
Review: And God Said, "Billy!"
SEPT 16, 2013 | BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- Anyone who asks me for a recommendation for good reading in the fiction category always gets...
Trayvon and George: A Tale of Two Americas
JULY 15, 2013 | BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- Emerging America doesn’t love Trayvon and hate George, or love George and hate Trayvon...
The Scandal Of Publix and The Coalition of Immokalee Workers: A Christian Critique
BY: BRIAN MCLAREN -- A Presbyterian minister enters a Publix grocery store in Florida to buy a...
Interfaith Misunderstanding in America
It's been a great year for interfaith misunderstanding in America.
There was a U.S. senator's wild allegation about Islamic extremists infiltrating the American government.
There are the ridiculous -- and ongoi...
A Story of Christian-Muslim Friendship: Entering Without Knocking
We all know the standard traditions of marriage in America: something borrowed, something blue... the groom doesn't see the bride before the wedding... processional and recessional... the kiss, the toast......
Speaking Out Is Complicated (And So Is Staying Silent)
For 24 years of my life, I was a church planter and pastor. At the beginning of those years, I would have gladly called myself an Evangelical. But those years coincided with the rise of the Religious Right...
Two Roads Diverged in the Evangelical Wood
When I was a young Evangelical Christian coming of age back in the early 1970s, I remember feeling that there were two paths before me. One was legalistic, anti-intellectual, combative and rigid. The other...
Could A Decline in Numbers Bring New Hope to Southern Baptists?
Although I’ve never been a Southern Baptist, I have a special place in my heart for them. I experienced a teenage, under-the-stars spiritual experience which occurred at a Baptist camp on a retreat hosted b...