Brian McLaren Note

This in from a new friend I met at Easum's Mustang Island retreat a couple weeks ago.

Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Orthodoxy and The Last World and the World After That describes himself as a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished CHRISTIAN. 

Rich - good to meet you, brother.  Sometimes I think that the mainline has a disease that it is almost getting over, and that evangelicalism  is just catching the disease ... so those who jump from mainline into more fundamentalist directions will find themselves stuck in disease longer than they would otherwise have been.  But that's just my opinion - and I'm wrong about a lot of things!

I'm not sure if you've read George Barna's new book.  He's speaking about a "post-congregational" form of Christian life and community, and your family based stuff could be relevant to that.  The challenge, I think, will be to find a way to talk about family that doesn't sound like the religious right.

Keep up the good work!  HTH - brian

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this is such a small world .. I know Brian too! At least via email! :-)