When I have gone far too long taking myself too seriously and fighting dragons of fear and self doubt, I will often go to my trusty video shelf, pull out a Chris Farley movie, and invest a few sacred minutes filling my parched, melancholy soul with laughter. I love that guy. (He actually reminds me [...]

The image of Jesus is easy to manipulate, and liberal theologians throughout church history have made this their goal.  The “gentle Jesus meek and mild” motif fits in well with the zoned out image of Buddha, the softer gods of Hinduism and even the sensibilities of post-modern man–so McLaren holds to this “new kind of [...]

The key to understanding the Emergent movement is found in the post-modernism mindset, since Emergents like McLaren and others are obsessed with being relevant to “pomos.”  While there are many “modern” people still walking the earth (those over 45 or so), they are, to Emergent writers and leaders, a dying breed who are the closest [...]

Jesus addresses the problem of leaders in his day who were leading people astray with warped ideas of the kingdom of God. He called them “…blind guides, who strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”  (Matthew 6:23:24) For all the negative talk about dualisms in his “A New Kind of Christianity,”  Brian McLaren, the [...]