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14 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000

Engage the Postmodern World
There is little doubt left that the word in which we live is undergoing vast changes. The question is how we are to understand and respond to these changes. In The Church on the Other Side, Brian McLaren suggests that a new world requires a new church. McLaren provides thirteen strategies to guide church leaders through the transition from a modern to a postmodern world. Especially helpful are ...

Finding FaithA Search for What Makes Sense (Finding Faith)

2 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan, 2007

Starting with the Big Questions
While I agree with the reviewer below that the book would have been better packaged along with its companion, let me recomomend this first book as an outstanding contribution to exploring the big questions of life. It really does make sense! The text is easily accessible; it's not a detailed analysis meant for specialists in philosophy of religion (like me). I plan to require it for my ...

a Generous Orthodoxy

29 reviews

Zondervan ebook, 2006

An excellent vision of a Christian orthodoxy
I absolutely loved Brian McLaren's "A New Kind of Christian", a book that opened up a whole new world for me of possibilities of staying within the Christian faith, something on which I had almost given up. Rob Bell's "Velvet Elvis", in a different way, did the same. So I approached this next book by McLaren feeling exceptionally positive towards him and his writing. I wasn't disappointed. ...

Everything Must Change

35 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Hovel Audio, 2007

Jesus Right, not Jesus Lite
In "Everything Must Change", Brian McLaren eloquently expresses what I've felt about Jesus' message, and the manipulation of that message, since middle school. With historical research, political savvy, and personal experience, McLaren thoroughly documents the ways in which Christianity could lead the way out of war, hunger, poverty, and environmental decay. And how instead power uses biblical ...

Adventures in Missing the Point: How the Culture Controlled Church Neutered the Gospel

28 reviews
Brian D. McLaren, Tony Campolo

Zondervan/Youth Specialties, 2003

It's an Adventure!
I bought this book while preparing to teach a class on the Emerging Church for my seminary. While I am still adapting to Brian McLaren's style, I share a denominational identity with Tony Campolo, so I was happy to find a book that featured both people in dialog. Having established that I'm already biased in favor of the writers, I was extremely happy with the book, both in terms of the ...

Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place

Berg Publishers, 2004

Architecture and Tourism examines the relationship between tourism and the built environment and shows how photography, film, and souvenirs have been deployed to help mediate and mythologize specific sites. It also explores how tourist itineraries, behavior, and literature support larger cultural objectives. Drawing upon case studies in the United States, Cuba, Ghana, Greece, France, Italy, Libya, Mauritius and Spain, Architecture and Tourism ...

Finding Faith

18 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan Publishing Company, 1999

Get this book & suggest that all your friends read it!
I certainly wish this was the first book I read when I began my spiritual quest (which eventually led me to become Christian). It would have made certain things a lot easier! To someone who is interested in "finding faith" but has no real experience with anything spiritual (the position I was in), I recommend this book. It covers a lot of issues that "beginners" are going to want to explore, and ...

The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth That Could Change Everything

141 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Hovel Audio, 2006

Transformational
McLaren puts the world of Jesus and what that might mean for us in perspective. Thought-provoking, Scriptural and potentially life-altaring. Much different perspective than most of our modern-day churches give us of Jesus.

Generous Orthodoxy, A: Why I am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, ...
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan, 2006

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

153 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Jossey-Bass, 2002

Jaded about Church? Here's an attitude shift.
An attitude shift of looking at how we do our Christianity, how we live it, and how it is expressed by us. There are some controversial points in the book however at it's core, it is calling us to be real and doesn't compromise the message of the Bible at all. It calls us to work with a new paradigm that runs at another level that the traditional church offering it's ministries to its ...

Reinventing Your Church

6 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan, 1998

A Bold Strategy For The Church In a Post-modern World
REINVENTING YOUR CHURCH By Brian D. McLaren There are many books being written these days on the need for change in the church. This book certainly should be included among the better in this category. It is remarkable for its clarity of thought and its balance in venturing into this somewhat controversial area. The author does not hesitate to suggest bold and radical departures from ...

McLaren Boxed Set (A New Kind of Christian; The Story We Find Ourselves In; The Last Word and the Word After ...

10 reviews
Brian D McLaren

Jossey-Bass, 2005

most transforming books i've read so far
Brian McLaren points out new ways of thinking about various different aspects of faith that seem not to make much sense for most people. When I started reading ("The Story We Find Ourselves In") I conciously knew about a few of those aspects, I was struggling with - during reading these books I not only found out that deep inside I was struggling with more things than I thought, I also was ...

The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

38 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Jossey-Bass, 2003

The Story I found myself a part of . . .
In part 2 of the this series we find the characters coming to the realization of no boundaries, unexpected discoveries, and love for all of creation (not just the human creation). What the author brings forth for all who read is not a pointless liberal agenda, or leftist mentality, but rather a perspective of the truth that transcends categories. It is a story about the inclusive rescue by God ...

A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

1 review
Brian D. McLaren

Hovel Audio, 2006

A taste of living water in the drought of modern-day Christianity
My hairdresser recommended this book to me. The relationship one has with one's hairdresser means that you often end up talking about quite deep things and my hairdresser and I, both Christians, have done a lot of talking over the last ten years. He was obviously pretty much in tune with where my thoughts were as he told me about a book I had to read, told me its name and I went out and bought ...

Generous Orthodoxy, A: Why I am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, ...
Brian D. McLaren

Zondervan, 2006

The Last Word and the Word after That: A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity (J-B Leadership ...

118 reviews
Brian D. McLaren

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Hopefully Not McLaren's Last Word!
Absolutely loved this book! It is possibly my favorite of McLaren's books from the New Kind of Christian series. He tackles the subject of the hereafter with amazing finesse. I thought the book was thoughtful,kind and challenging while looking into the subject of hell. His chapter regarding the Holocaust Museum was incredibly moving and personal. The characters vary some from book to book, ...

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