Brian D. McLaren is founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region. He is the author of several books including A Generous Orthodoxy, A New Kind of Christian, and The Secret Message of Jesus.
Don't miss your chance to hear Brian at the National Pastor's Convention in February. Choose from his seminars and panel discussion:
Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope (Critical Concerns Course), Monday, Febuary 9, 6:00pm-9:00pm and Tuesday, February 10, 8:30am-11:30am
Christian Faith as Way of Life
Christianity has tended to present itself as a system of belief or as an institution of society. What would it mean to rediscover the way of Jesus as a way of life - radical, daily, contemplative, active, and communal? How would this way of life be learned through practices? What role would ancient practices have in this way of life? What would the church look like if it formed itself around this mission of spiritual formation for global transformation?
The Political Gospels: Religious right, religious left or politically AWOL?
How do we put faith and politics together in an honest and helpful way? What paths should we explore in the aftermath of the Religious Right, Civil Religion, and Spiritual Isolationism? Is the gospel liberal or conservative or both or neither? How can we talk about political matters in a civil - and Christian - way?
Being Faithful in a Pluralist World
How can followers of Jesus find freshly faithful ways to engage with Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists, and others who do not want to accept Christianity? Are the alternatives beyond ignore, persecute, exclude, fear, and badger?
Jesus and Empire Panel Discussion, Wednesday, February 11, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Including Shane Claiborne, Don Golden, Scot McKnight, and Efrem Smith
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