Brian McLaren Set the Story Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I allowed Genesis, Exodus, and Isaiah—rather than Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar—to set the stage for the biblical…
Brandan Robertson You have heard it said Now, the next question that naturally arises is this: If truth is progressive, then is it possible for something that was once considered to be true to become no longer…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
Brandan Robertson Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God, the renewal of the world, would happen progressively over time The question of “What is the Gospel” isn’t a hard one to answer. Jesus explicitly states it many times throughout the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. In Mark…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
Brian McLaren Interpretation Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I look back on my own experience with the Bible, I figure I've heard or given over…
Barbara Brown Taylor Could it be that our favorite verses are the ones that make us feel most right? In the Christian New Testament, Jesus himself admits that he does not know everything there is to know about God. When his disciples ask him to tell them about the…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
