Finding Our Way Again
The Return of the Ancient Practices · Foreword by Phyllis Tickle
Books by Brian D. McLaren
A shelf of questions, stories, and possible futures.
Across fiction, theology, spiritual practice, ecology, and children’s storytelling, Brian’s books invite readers to see inherited stories clearly—and imagine wiser ones together.
30Books & editorial projects
4Decades of writing
3Generations of readers
Begin with the newest work
Current shelf
Recent fiction, essential nonfiction, and a peace-making story written especially for children.
The Great Rift
The second novel in the Mars trilogy—a story of survival, belonging, and the difficult work of beginning again.
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The Last Voyage
Ten pioneers leave a faltering Earth for Mars, carrying human brilliance, old wounds, and one enormous question.
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Life After Doom
Wisdom, grief, courage, and resilient hope for an age of ecological and social upheaval.
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Cory and the Seventh Story
A hopeful illustrated story about peace, belonging, and choosing love when fear takes over the village.
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Do I Stay Christian?
An honest companion for people deciding what their religious identity can—and cannot—mean.
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Faith After Doubt
A map for moving through certainty and doubt toward a more mature, generous, and fruitful faith.
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Stories that test the future
Two speculative journeys to Mars, plus the landmark conversational trilogy that helped a generation rethink inherited faith.
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The Great Rift
The Last Voyage trilogy · Book two · Forthcoming
The Last Voyage
The Last Voyage trilogy · Book one
The Last Word and the Word After That
A New Kind of Christian trilogy · Book three
The Story We Find Ourselves In
A New Kind of Christian trilogy · Book two
A New Kind of Christian
A New Kind of Christian trilogy · Book one
Stories for all ages
Where peace becomes the hero
A children’s picture book and its companion fable for adults, both coauthored with peace activist Gareth Higgins.
Nonfiction
Faith, courage, and a changing world
The central body of work: honest inquiry, spiritual practice, ecological attention, and a generous public theology.
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Life After Doom
Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart
Do I Stay Christian?
A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned
Faith After Doubt
Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
The Galápagos Islands
A Spiritual Journey · Published in the UK as God Unbound
Seeking Aliveness
Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practice Faith
The Great Spiritual Migration
How the World’s Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
We Make the Road by Walking
A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation
Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?
Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World
Naked Spirituality
A Life with God in 12 Simple Words
A New Kind of Christianity
Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
Everything Must Change
Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope
The Secret Message of Jesus
Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything
A Generous Orthodoxy
A personal confession and emerging-church landmark
More Ready Than You Realize
The Power of Everyday Conversations
The Church on the Other Side
Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix · Revised from Reinventing Your Church
Finding Faith
A Self-Discovery Guide for Your Spiritual Quest · Later issued in two volumes
Collaborations & edited work
Ideas made in conversation
Books created with fellow writers, scholars, pastors, and activists—including two fresh retellings of scripture.
The Justice Project
Co-edited with Elisa Padilla and Ashley Bunting Seeber
The Voice of Luke: Not Even Sandals
With Chris Seay
The Dust Off Their Feet
With Chris Seay · Lessons from the First Church
Adventures in Missing the Point
With Tony Campolo
The Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives
Contributor · Edited by Leonard Sweet
A Is for Abductive
With Leonard Sweet and Jerry Haselmayer
On the horizon
The shelf is still growing.
The Beautiful Logic of a Meaningful Life
Planned for 2027.
Ethnogenesis
Planned for Summer/Fall 2027.