67. Faith’s Dance With Doubt — A Conversation with Brian McLaren

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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In this conversation, we spoke with Brian McLaren about his new book, Faith After Doubt. Brian is a former evangelical pastor, bestselling author, speaker, and podcast host, whose ideas we found to be extraordinarily resonant for our own faith tradition.

In this most recent book and in the interview, Brian shares his own experience passing through periods of deep doubt and shares how those experiences have been key for him to unlocking a greater sense of simplicity, integration and harmony in his life.

We want to make clear that we recognize that the word doubt has different meanings to different people. To some, it means an attitude of cynicism some bring to questions of faith. To others it means an open and honest questioning without a predetermined outcome. It’s really that latter definition of doubt that Brian examines in his book. And we know that this kind of questioning can be profoundly disorienting. But, according to Brian, it can also result in a new kind of faith that leads to a deep and abiding love between ourselves, others, and our world.

And while this episode is in many ways for those who have experienced deep periods of doubt, it’s also for those who want to stand in love and solidarity with those who have. We really think there’s something for everybody here.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, before we get started I just wanted to tell you about a new book from Faith Matters
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0:21.6	shows how as members of the church it's our mission to truly lead out in bringing wholeness
0:26.4	and healing to the marginalized and the vulnerable. This book absolutely lit a fire for me and
0:30.9	it has totally changed the way I view my own engagement with the church and with the world.
0:34.9	I really can't recommend this book strongly enough. It's the kind of book you want everyone
0:38.7	you know to be reading too so that you can talk about it. So you can pick up a copy for yourself
0:43.2	or for your friends and family at Desert Book, Amazon, Audible and Apple Books. Okay that's it
0:48.4	on the book for now but we'll be sharing a lot more in the near future. Thanks as always and here's
0:52.7	the episode. Hey everybody this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. In this conversation we spoke
0:57.2	with Brian McLaren about his new book Faith After Doubt. Brian is a former evangelical pastor,
1:02.2	bestselling author, speaker and podcast host whose ideas we found to be extraordinarily
1:06.4	resonant for our own faith tradition. In this most recent book and in the interview,
1:10.8	Brian shares his own experience passing through periods of deep doubt and shares how those
1:14.8	experiences have been key for him to unlocking a greater sense of simplicity, integration and
1:18.8	harmony in his life. We want to make clear that we recognize that the word doubt has different
1:23.0	meanings to different people. To some it means an attitude of cynicism, some bring to questions of
1:27.4	faith. To others it means an open and honest questioning without a predetermined outcome.
1:31.9	It's really that latter definition of doubt that Brian examines in his book and we know that
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