Brian McLaren
Overcoming Mormon doubt is hard when you’ve never been given the tools
By Jana Riess — April 8, 2021
(RNS) — LDS leaders want doubters to be able to magically know how to do something we’ve never taught believers how to do, which is to understand that we could be very wrong in what we are currently thinking about religion.
Brian McLaren says there’s a good reason your beliefs stopped working
By Jana Riess — January 5, 2021
People who doubt their faith often get the “you are not wanted here” message from their religion, says author Brian McLaren. After the anger and loss, is there room for them to build a different kind of faith?
Who will President Joe Biden listen to on faith matters?
By Jack Jenkins and Emily McFarlan Miller — November 8, 2020
(RNS) — The nation's second Catholic president is likely to bring a more restrained, interfaith approach to his faith-based politics than his predecessor.
Instagram apostasy stirs controversy over Christian ‘influencers’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 30, 2019
(RNS) — Living one's spiritual life online leaves these leaders more vulnerable to the huge cost of leaving one's faith.
Faith groups mount election turnout efforts that could help both parties
By Jack Jenkins — November 5, 2018
(RNS) — This year’s heated midterm contests appear to have sparked unusually robust efforts by faith-based organizations to galvanize supporters and move the political needle.
Brian McLaren, others apologize to Native Americans in video series
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 31, 2017
(RNS) The last of the three 'Confessions of a Christian Nation' videos apologizes for the church's role in oppressing Native Americans.
Conservative and progressive US evangelicals head for divorce
By David P. Gushee — February 12, 2016
Conservative and progressive evangelicals need to let each other go, acknowledging that they have become two separate religious communities.
Diana Butler Bass grounds herself in nature and finds God
By Jennifer Preyss — October 8, 2015
(RNS) Her latest book, “Grounded: Finding God in the World, a Spiritual Revolution,” champions a return to nature and an embrace of hospitality. It also begs a frequent question, “Where is God?”
Quiet time: It’s not just for conservative Christians anymore
By Jonathan Merritt — October 21, 2014
A new anti-devotional devotional features voices from across the religious spectrum and offers something to challenge, encourage, and royally piss off just about everyone.
Brian McLaren reflects on 25 years of emergence
By Jonathan Merritt — August 7, 2014
Brian McLaren once led one of the most talked about movements within American Christianity. A quarter-century after its beginning, he reflects back on what it was really about.
Tackling the Bible with Brian McLaren: “We Make the Road by Walking”
By Jana Riess — July 3, 2014
Why are there contradictions in the Bible? Why does the God of the Old Testament seem so different than the God of the New? "In science, better theories with more explanatory power eventually triumph over less effective theories," says Emergent theologian Brian McLaren. "I think we have something very similar in the Bible."
Newest ‘Values Voters’ adversary to America: The Emergent Church.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 27, 2013
(RNS) “If we had one one-thousandth of the adherence of either of communism or Islam, we’d be doing pretty well," said Emergent Church leader Tony Jones. "When I first saw this, I thought it was a headline from The Onion.”
Mormon Writer Phyllis Barber on “Searching for Spirit”
By Jana Riess — August 15, 2013
In this lovely guest post, Mormon memoirist Phyllis Barber recounts a lifetime spent searching for the places the Spirit resides, though she notes she is a "mere beginner in the ancient business of seeking Spirit and the Divine." Not content to file answers in the "I Know" box, she finds illumination and glimpses of the holy in unexpected ways.
5 Highlights from This Year’s Wild Goose Festival
By Jana Riess — August 12, 2013
From the Indigo Girls to Nadia Bolz-Weber, here are some highlights from this weekend's Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina. (P.S. The weather was NOT a highlight.)
GUEST COMMENTARY: Here we go again?
By Brian D. McLaren — September 20, 2012
(RNS) If we have the courage and wisdom to learn the backstory of our religion and others, we can begin to transcend the vicious cycles in which we are now stuck, spinning. By Brian McLaren.
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