Progressive Brian McLaren vs evangelicals: is there really such a big divide?
Journalist Heather Tomlinson explores a recent Unbelievable? conversation, unpacking some of McLaren’s theology and summarising a number of other voices on these key issues
As well as the questions over climate change and pessimism raised in the last post in relation to a recent Unbelievable? conversation with Brian McLaren, there are theological questions, too.
One of McLaren’s main points was that the Church is too concerned about getting to heaven, and not enough about what’s happening before we get there. “I became convinced that the version of the gospel I had inherited in the… (Register to read the rest of the article)
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