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Brian McLaren
Website:
Brian D. McLaren official website
Country:
USA
Activity:
Activist, Pastor, Spiritual teacher, Writer
Keywords:
activism, awake, change, contemplation, dualism, embody, humanity, inner, love, nonviolence, oneness, practices
Autor, speaker and activist. He is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good.
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Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member of The Living School, which is part of the Center for Action and Contemplation, and he co-leads the Common Good Messaging Team, which is part of Vote Common Good. He is also an Auburn Senior Fellow and a leader in the Convergence Network, through which he has developed an innovative training/mentoring program for pastors, church planters, and lay leaders called Convergence Leadership Project. He works closely with the Wild Goose Festival, the Fair Food Program‘s Faith Working Group, and Progressive Christianity. His most recent projects include an illustrated children’s book (for all ages) called Cory and the Seventh Story and The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey. Two important new releases are in process: Faith After Doubt (January 2021) and Do I Stay Christian? (Spring 2022).
Brian has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid 1980’s, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer for denominational and ecumenical leadership gatherings – across the US and Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including postmodern thought and culture, Biblical studies, church leadership and spiritual formation, pastoral survival and burnout, inter-religious dialogue, and global crises.
He is primarily known as a thinker and writer.
A frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs, he has appeared on All Things Considered, Larry King Live, Nightline, On Being, and Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. His work has also been covered in Time, New York Times, Christianity Today, Christian Century, the Washington Post, Huffington Post, CNN.com, and many other print and online media.
He has taught or lectured at many seminaries and at denominational and interfaith gatherings.
Interviews available from Brian McLaren
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Cultivating an inner world
What is the relationship between the inner and the outer world?
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Environmental crisis: urgency and patience
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God of the inclusive, creation care
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Going into the world with gifts to give and gifts to receive
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Life as disconnection or connection?
What difference does it make, when we experience life as connection?
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Nonviolence starts inwardly
We can be quite violent with ourself. Nonviolence in some ways starts inwardly and then expend to others.
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State and stages in the spiritual life
If a state is when you have a temporary almost like a vacation to a better place, then you actually could start to develop practices that would help you move there
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The dualistic mindset: we can develop a new way of seeing
How can we overcome the tendency to see the world in binaries: good/bad, in/out?
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The power of the inner work