Brian D. McLaren

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

“I have a confession to make.121 Almost every time I tune in to religious radio or TV, I want to change my…

— Brian D. McLaren

“If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if,…

— Brian D. McLaren

That in itself is an act of peacemaking, because we're seeking to align our wills with God's will, our dreams with God's…

— Brian D. McLaren

“The wise preacher of Ecclesiastes might say, “There is a time for everything—a time to be laid-back and a time to be…

— Brian D. McLaren

Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly…

— Brian D. McLaren

“There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call…

— Brian D. McLaren

“For me, Carol, we can't be faithful to God unless we're faithful to the facts, faithful to the data if you will.…

— Brian D. McLaren

The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to…

— Brian D. McLaren

“A generous orthodoxy is like that. It acknowledges that we’re all a mess. It sees in our worst failures the possibility of…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?…

— Brian D. McLaren

“globalism (for better or worse) transforms personal and ethnic identities, creating hyphenated and cosmopolitan identities—in which people consider themselves first and foremost…

— Brian D. McLaren

We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in…

— Brian D. McLaren

“We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in…

— Brian D. McLaren

You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on…

— Brian D. McLaren

“This is a book about getting naked—not physically, but spiritually. It’s about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion—the Sunday-dress…

— Brian D. McLaren

Tony [Campolo] and I might disagree on the details, but I think we are both trying to find an alternative to both…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Too often we put the gospel of Jesus through the strainer of consumerist-capitalism and retain only the thin broth that this modern-day…

— Brian D. McLaren

A lot of arguments happen among religious and non religious people about the question of who's going to hell and who's going…

— Brian D. McLaren

At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make…

— Brian D. McLaren

Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I…

— Brian D. McLaren

We need not a new set of beliefs, but a new way of believing, not simply new answers to the same old…

— Brian D. McLaren

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I…

— Brian D. McLaren

Jesus was short on sermons, long on conversations; short on answers, long on questions; short on abstraction and propositions, long on stories…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Oddly, I’ve never heard of a church or denomination that asked people to affirm a doctrinal statement like this: The purpose of…

— Brian D. McLaren