Brian McLaren - Brian McLaren

Hi, friends … I’ve been looking over my calendar and started getting really excited about 2020. Yes, I know it’s going to be a difficult and dangerous year, and in many ways, I dread the vitriolic tweets and negative political ads (not to mention the...

Having been a pastor for 24 years, and having befriended and coached pastors for forty years, I know how hard the job is. Really, there’s nothing I’ve ever done that comes close to the difficulty, complexity, demands, dangers, temptations, and drains...

As a man, I ponder pregnancy with a sense of wonder and incomprehensibility.
As a father of four who had the privilege of witnessing pregnancy and birth at close range, the wonder and incomprehensibility of motherhood are only magnified.
Of course, even us men have experienced pregnancy in one dimension — from the inside. Before conscious memory, we were beneficiaries of a mother’s generosity, giving us life by giving us our first home in her womb. Male or female or other, each of us...

Politics is about how human beings distribute power, and any engagement with the Christmas story that avoids the political is highly political.
Attempts to avoid the political comply with the political conspiracy of silence that upholds the politically powerful in their political power, and simultaneously suppresses the politically powerless in their political oppression. Just as “not to decide...