Brian McLaren - A Journey Towards an Emerging Church (N23)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

Christianity, Faithshift, Deconstruction, Christianmysticism, Religion & Spirituality, Christianspirituality, Progressivechristian, Christian, Religion, Emergingchurch

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2010

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Brian McLaren is pastor, author, speaker, activist and one of the leading figures in the emerging church movement. Brian tells us about some of the questions he's been wrestling with as he's journeyed towards new forms of Christian faith and church.

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian Community, Mission and the Future of the Church.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Nomad podcast.
0:18.3	We are a group of friends living in Nottingham in the United Kingdom,
0:21.9	considering issues to do with mission, community and the future of the church.
0:26.4	On this month's show, we speak to Brian McLaren,
0:29.1	a significant character in the emerging church movement.
0:33.1	It's all coming up on Nomad Podcast.
0:43.8	Thank you. It's all coming up on Nomad Podcast. Brian McLaren, as far as many people are concerned,
0:46.8	is the godfather of the emerging church.
0:49.5	And whilst he himself is uncomfortable with the term emerging church,
0:53.5	he nevertheless is, for many within the movement, a very important figure.
0:58.8	Through his writing and his speaking, he's a source of inspiration, encouragement and guidance
1:04.2	to those within the movement who are exploring new ideas to do with church and mission.
1:09.5	And so it's our great pleasure and privilege to welcome
1:12.5	Brian to knowad podcast. Brian, it's great to have you on the show. Great to be with you, Nick. Thanks for
1:18.2	having me. It's our pleasure. There are lots and lots of things that we want to ask you about,
1:23.5	but we thought it'd be really good if you could start by just telling us a bit about how you began this whole journey.
1:29.1	I mean, what were the sort of things that caused you to start asking the questions that you did ask about church?
1:37.4	Well, first, I grew up in a wonderful Christian home, very, very conservative.
1:43.8	You might even say fundamentalist Christian home here on the east coast of the United States.
1:48.8	Wonderful, committed Christian parents.
1:50.6	I grew up learning the Bible, loving the Bible.
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