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Nomad Podcast

Brian McLaren - Finding God in the Religion of Others (N59)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Brian McLaren is an internationally recognised and sort after author, speaker and activist. In this episode we're chatting with Brian about his latest challenging and provocative book that explores the vital topic of Christianity's relationship with other religions.

“We Christians already know how to do two things well: we know how to have a strong Christian identity that’s hostile toward people of other identities, and we know how to have a weak Christian identity that’s tolerant or benign toward people of other identities. That opens up a third option – is it possible that there could be a strong Christian identity that is benevolent toward people of other faiths?" - Brian McLaren

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I think the things I've said in my books that have upset some people are actually quite mild compared to what they really need to hear.

0:14.3

Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.

0:19.1

Welcome back to Nomad podcast.

0:20.9

Here we are again in London.

0:23.2

It comes to London a lot, don't we?

0:24.4

We do.

0:25.0

It's kind of the centre of all things missional, we're finding.

0:28.1

Yeah.

0:28.7

Do you think the Holy Spirit lives in London?

0:30.5

I was surprised if he didn't.

0:32.4

I imagine if the Holy Spirit wasn't in London.

0:34.4

Because he's kind of everywhere, isn't he? Yeah, but I was thinking if he's only in London.

0:38.5

Yeah. That doesn't really work.

0:40.7

I'd retract that comment now.

0:43.1

He'd get in a lot of trouble. Just like the person that we're about to speak to, he gets

0:46.5

in a lot of trouble, doesn't it?

0:47.6

He does.

0:49.1

It's an interesting one of this, because this is one of the rare interviews we've done

0:53.5

where you know something about the

0:54.8

person we're talking to usually i say look just ask this question yeah good boy yeah well you

1:01.4

have kind of done that again i mean yeah i have that that it's exactly but at least you know a little bit

1:06.1

about it yeah uh you're a bit of a fan let's just get down to it you're a bit of a yes i do like brian m to it. You're a bit of a... Yes, I do like Brian McClaren.

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