Brian D. McLaren

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

— 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

It's not about the church meeting your needs; it's about joining the mission of God's people to meet the world's needs.

— Brian D. McLaren

The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.

— 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

To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on…

— Brian D. McLaren

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day.

— Brian D. McLaren

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.

— Brian D. McLaren

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created…

— Brian D. McLaren

Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of…

— Brian D. McLaren

If Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed were to bump into each other along the road and go have a cup of…

— Brian D. McLaren

When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them…

— 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

Ultimately, I hope Jesus will save Buddhism, Islam and every other religion, including the Christian religion, which often seems to need saving…

— Brian D. McLaren

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have…

— 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

“In the previous few minutes, I had seen the most beautiful thing that eyes can see: the glory of God shining in…

— Brian D. McLaren

Because we are rooted in a generous Christian heritage, we are eager to collaborate with people of other faiths, and those seeking…

— 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

“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

I must add, though, that I don't believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable…

— Brian D. McLaren

The church latched on to that old doctrine of original sin like a dog to a stick, and before you knew it,…

— Brian D. McLaren

What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if…

— Brian D. McLaren

In the tradition of Julian of Norwich and St. Teresa of Avila and all the other mystics, we can learn to render…

— Brian D. McLaren

You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with…

— Brian D. McLaren

“The surface causes of environmental carelessness among conservative Christians are legion, including subcontracting the evangelical mind out to right-wing politicians and greedy…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Never accept and be content with unanalyzed assumptions, assumptions about the work, about the people, about the church or Christianity. Never be…

— Brian D. McLaren

“Don’t we need some “secular” social space where diverse people of faith can encounter one another with some level of privacy and…

— Brian D. McLaren

I tried to read The Dubliners, when I went to Dublin a couple of years ago. I think I only go thurogh…

— Brian D. McLaren

One of the things that's happening to a lot of us is that there's this vision of the beauty of God that…

— 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

Ask me if Christianity (my version of it, yours, the Pope's, whoever's) is orthodox, meaning true, and here's my honest answer: a…

— Brian D. McLaren

“when wealth is your god, weapons are your sacrament, and your own children are your sacrifice—”

— Brian D. McLaren

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

— 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

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of…

— Brian D. McLaren

“I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn't try to tell you what to think. Instead, it…

— Brian D. McLaren

The Christian faith, I am proposing, should become (in the name of Jesus Christ) a welcome friend to other religions of the…

— Brian D. McLaren

Scripture is something God had ‘let be,’ and so it is at once God’s creation and the creation of the dozens of…

— Brian D. McLaren

Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on…

— Brian D. McLaren