Brian McLaren - The Great Spiritual Migration (N132)

Nomad Podcast

Tim Nash

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

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Brian McLaren has a knack for articulating what many of us are feeling. For a decade he has been the voice of those Christians who are concerned about, for example, the Church's overemphasis on doctrinal belief, its lack of inclusivity, and its lack of concern for the many global issues we are facing.

In his latest book - The Great Spiritual Migration - he draws together all these themes into a manifesto for a new Christian movement, one that seeks nothing less than the healing of the world.

"We need to organise people to be agents of concern for the planet, concern for the poor, agents of peace and people who go out to respect and promote the flourishing of all people." - Brian McLaren

Interview begins at 8m 1s

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0:00.0	Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.
0:16.2	So welcome back to Nomad podcast.
0:18.9	We interrupt this Greenbelt series to bring you Brian McLaren.
0:23.7	Well, so we've done, we've been at Greenbelt the last month and we've interviewed Kester Bruin and then Mark Yacanelli.
0:31.8	Well, we haven't been at Greenbelt for a month.
0:33.6	Just waiting there at Greenbelt.
0:35.8	And now next up at Greenbelt, this is going to be a spoiler alert.
0:40.0	It's going to be Lisa and Michael Gunger.
0:42.9	Whoa.
0:43.7	But, so we were going to upload that now.
0:46.6	But it turns out Brian McLaren's got a new book out.
0:49.0	And he is coming to Manchester to speak at the cathedral.
0:52.7	So we thought, do you know what?
0:54.1	We're going to have some of that action.
0:55.2	Let's jump in there.
0:56.4	So we've got an interview with Brian McLaren, whose book's coming out sort of about now.
1:01.6	So we thought, yeah, it's worth pause in the Greenbelt series in order to grab Brian.
1:07.7	It occurred to me, Wardow, these wind shields that we have in our mics, I've never washed them. Oh my goodness. So they're probably full of the spit of various... Famous people. So Michael and Lisa Gunger's spit probably in this very windshield, in it?
1:23.1	Yeah, we could sell them on eBay. Or we could extract the genetic information and clone them.
1:29.9	We could clone them and raise them as conservative evangelicals.
1:33.8	So they've never been through their faith deconstruction.
1:37.0	We could get them to record more of their more conservative evangelical worship albums,
	...

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