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		<title>When Patriarchy Is the Problem (Not the Solution)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We human beings have a lot of problems, and one of our biggest is men. Male humans often become violent rivals for status, prestige, sexual satisfaction, money, land, and power. Fueled by androgen, testosterone, and social conditioning, men form and use gangs, political parties, nations, religions, and empires to play out their aggressions, and sadly, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Last Reformation … and the Next Reformation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The last reformation is said to have begun on an identifiable day – October 31, 1517, corresponding to a single identifiable event – Luther’s nailing 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg church. In fact, the conditions for the reformation had been building for more than a century. Similarly, the next reformation has been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The &#8216;Alt-Right&#8217; Has Created Alt-Christianity</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If good religion slumbers and stagnates, bad religion is the alternative.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Pastors and Priests Are Leaving the Church (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have been talking and writing about the departure of Millennials from the ranks of the churched. I think people would be surprised to know how many pastors and priests have either left already or are thinking about leaving. I meet them in my travels constantly. Take Clarke, for example. Here’s what [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Conservative Evangelical Project: An Unexpected Grief</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just took my first sabbatical. Turning 60 seemed like a good time to get off the road, quiet down, take stock, recharge. It was all I had hoped for. I rested. Walked. Rode my bike. Fished. Played my guitar. Finished a book. Stayed out of airports. Binge-watched a couple TV series with my wife. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Q &#038; R: Why Celebrate a Swing of the Pendulum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s the question: A friend quoted you recently as saying a) that you see a shift in society from a view of God that’s violent and judgmental to one of grace and acceptance, and b) that this shift is a good thing. Why should we celebrate another swing of the pendulum? Did Jesus call us [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Praise of Political Correctness (A Poem)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 22:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don’t know if they know what they mean When they mock it, but I sure know what I mean When I praise it. It’s like gun safety, people. You don’t point a loaded sentence At someone. You never walk through a crowd without clicking The safety on your mouth. Certain words are like triggers. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Q&#038;R: Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2016 17:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s the Question: I am a Canadian who attends [a contemporary evangelical church] in Toronto. We practice a third way of accepting LGBT people into our family with love and non judgement but do not conduct Same Sex marriages. My father came out to me a few years ago and my wife and I have [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Announcing: &#8220;The Great Spiritual Migration&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Arca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2016 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[From the publisher: The Christian story, from Genesis until now, is fundamentally about people on the move—outgrowing old, broken religious systems and embracing new, more redemptive ways of life. It’s time to move again. Brian McLaren, a leading voice in contemporary spirituality and religion, argues that— notwithstanding the dire headlines about the demise of faith [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Q &#038; R: Is There Any Part of Christianity That I Can Continue to Embrace?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brian McLaren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 22:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How should we deal with the trade-ups that need to be made in the New Testament view of God and Jesus? It seems that even the character of Jesus and other parts of the New Testament (e.g., the symbolic yet extremely violent book of Revelation) might need a trade up. This is has been very disturbing to me, and I’m not sure where to go from here or if there’s any part of Christianity that I can continue to embrace.]]></description>
		
		
		
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