"Gospel of rational hope"?

Pastor Glenn Parkinson of Severna Park Evangelical Presbyterian Church writes in his blog that he is starting to wonder whether the media is doing more than reporting on a culture in crisis. He suggests they are promoting a “culture OF crisis”. It’s a clever turn of phrase, and reflects, I think, a view that is [...]

The Murky Marriage of Love and Truth

In an interview by Next Wave, Brian McLaren defines the purpose of his book, A Generous Orthodoxy (which I am enjoying and have been responding to over the last few days):
In a sentence, A Generous Orthodoxy is an attempt to remarry two things that never should have been divorced — truth and love….
This reminds [...]

My McLaren Colloquy: 4. The Faithful Remnant

Conversing with his friend Samir Vesna on pp 129-130 of A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian McLaren writes,
Restorationists… often refer to themselves, Samir says, as a remnant…. “We’re not small because we’re ineffective, or lazy, or ingrown, or otherwise unattractive; we’re small because we’re a faithful remnant! Everone else has compromised…. We’re the few, the committed, [...]

Brian McLaren – Domesticated the true revolutionary power of Christ

Brian McLaren spoke after lunch today….
My unedited notes:
Throughout human history , the paradigm has been: people without power are hurt by people with power. So they use the selfish assumptions and violent methods of the powerful to claw themselves into power… so that by the time they have arrived, they themselves are just as violent [...]

Phariseesim defined nicely

David Wayne did a great job of defining the differeence bbetween Phariseeism and faith in the gospel. My comments are here.