http://www.brianmclaren.net/ en-us 2009-01-15T11:40:44-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/in-ireland.html I leave today for Summer Madness in Ireland. Please come by the sessions I'll be leading if you're there ... I don't expect to be able to post here until the middle or end of next week. But I left... Blog brianmclaren 2009-07-02T08:26:10-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/q-r-newbigin.html This question came in recently ... I have read your books and I am now writing [thesis] on how your thought relates to the work of Lesslie Newbigin. I would really appreciate your help in answering a few specific questions.... Blog brianmclaren 2009-07-02T07:55:36-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/gotta-love-steve-martin.html A tribute to the king of pop ...... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-27T21:31:11-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/some-grey-bloke.html does it again ...... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-26T21:33:32-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/climate-change.html For those of us who believe Everything Must Change ... this state-of-the-art report on Climate Change in the US will be of interest. (Thanks, Gary!) An important reuters news story after the jump. (Thanks, Dorjee!) AND LATE NOTE: Today the... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-26T17:37:07-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/the-swallowtailed-kite.html For some people it's a stained-glass window or a church bell or a Bach fugue that immediately fills their heart with a sense of grace and worship. For me, those are all wonderful ... but few things surpass in grace... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-26T15:14:15-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/two-passings.html While the world mourns two talented celebrities, two other passings will go largely unnoticed. You can read about one of them here. And another - an amazing man named Ray Anderson. Ray taught theology at Fuller Seminary and wrote many... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-26T15:03:15-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/links-roundup-3.html I'm so enjoying my summer writing and marriage sabbatical (for both, not from both!) in Southwest Florida ... deep into revisions for A New Kind of Christianity (which it looks like will be released in early February 2010 instead of... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-25T11:41:57-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/girl-power.html It's true ... focus on helping girls and you change the world.... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-24T21:50:24-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/getting-beyond-a-foolish-argumen.html One of the distracting polarizations under which we've been laboring over recent decades is typically framed like this: big government versus big business. There are a thousand ironies in this. Those against big government are generally for big military, which... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-24T07:12:18-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/synchroblogging-on-sexuality.html I'm adding my voice to over 70 others connected with Bridging the Gap by posting on the issue of homosexuality today ... I'm in the editing stage of my March 2010 book, A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions that... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-24T01:00:00-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/if-you-ever-get-depressed-about.html Read this ...... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-23T08:01:43-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/iran-two-kinds-of-islam-and-two.html Adam sent me this link to Andrew Sullivan's blog ... a powerful i-report from Tehran. Very moving, and well worth your time to watch ... and add your prayers to the Iranians seeking freedom from dictatorship. There is the Islam... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-20T15:19:34-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/new-resource.html I contributed to this new resource - Fresh Expressions in the Sacramental Tradition. Jonny Baker offers an excellent review here. He notes: rowan williams opening chapter identifies these features of catholic spirituality: non verbal expressions of faith a central place... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-20T11:49:34-05:00 http://www.brianmclaren.net/archives/blog/common-ground-on-abortion.html How important are two recent acts of domestic terrorism ... one at the Holocaust Museum in DC and one at a Lutheran Church in Kansas City? If more of us don't hear them as a wake-up call, they could open... Blog brianmclaren 2009-06-19T15:22:14-05:00