Brian McLaren

We human beings have a lot of problems, and one of our biggest is men. Male humans often become violent rivals for status, prestige, sexual satisfaction, money, land, and power. Fueled by androge...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2017/11/patriarchy-problem-not-solution/

The last reformation is said to have begun on an identifiable day – October 31, 1517, corresponding to a single identifiable event – Luther’s nailing 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2017/11/last-reformation-next-reformation/

If good religion slumbers and stagnates, bad religion is the alternative.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2017/09/alt-right-created-alt-christianity/

A lot of people have been talking and writing about the departure of Millennials from the ranks of the churched. I think people would be surprised to know how many pastors and priests have either...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2017/07/pastors-priests-leaving-church-part-1/

I just took my first sabbatical. Turning 60 seemed like a good time to get off the road, quiet down, take stock, recharge. It was all I had hoped for. I rested. Walked. Rode my bike. Fished. Play...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/10/the-conservative-evangelical-project-an-unexpected-grief/

Here’s the question: A friend quoted you recently as saying a) that you see a shift in society from a view of God that’s violent and judgmental to one of grace and acceptance, and b) that thi...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/10/q-r-why-celebrate-a-swing-of-the-pendulum/

I don’t know if they know what they mean When they mock it, but I sure know what I mean When I praise it. It’s like gun safety, people. You don’t point a loaded sentence At someone. You nev...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/06/in-praise-of-political-correctness-a-poem/

Here’s the Question: I am a Canadian who attends in Toronto. We practice a third way of accepting LGBT people into our family with love and non judgement but do not conduct Same Sex marriages....

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/06/qr-hate-the-sin-and-love-the-sinner/

From the publisher: The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of li...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/06/announcing-the-great-spiritual-migration/

How should we deal with the trade-ups that need to be made in the New Testament view of God and Jesus? It seems that even the character of Jesus and other parts of the New Testament (e.g., the sy...

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/brianmclaren/2016/06/q-r-is-there-any-part-of-christianity-that-i-can-continue-to-embrace/