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Brian McLaren says Baptists ‘doing harm’ to nation and world
Baptists are doing a lot of damage in today’s population, emergent church head Brian McLaren said in a podcast posted recently on a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship blog.
“I experience that the role of Baptists — not Cooperative Baptist Fellowship but other Baptists — in doing injure to our nation and world is so great,” said McLaren, an writer and public theologian who gave the keynote address at last year’s CBF General Assembly in Atlanta.
“I really notice well-meaning, sincere people who are deeply committed to the term ‘Baptist’ are often at the forefront of existence careless about the environment,” McLaren said. “They are often at the forefront of being hateful towards Muslims. They are often at the forefront of promoting — unconsciously very often — white supremacy and continuing hurt being done to racial minorities. We don’t even desire to mention the harm being done to LGBTQ persons.”
Brian McLaren speaks at the 2017 CBF General Assembly. (BNG photo/Bob Allen)
“The reality that there’s a group of Baptists like CBF who are grappling with that history and trying to chart a better way forward is deeply encouraging to me, and I ju
Brian McLaren caused quite a stir in 2010 when he announced in his book A Fresh Kind of Christianity that he no longer believes that homosexuality is a sin. Many people were surprised by the news simply because he himself had called on evangelicals in 2006 to observe a five year moratorium on making moral pronouncements about homosexuality (see here). Yet in the guide, McLaren not only made a moral pronouncement, he also chastised conservative evangelicals for their views on the matter.
At the time, it appeared that McLaren’s revisionist views were merely a part of his emerging theological outlook—a postmodern slouch toward theological liberalism. No challenge it was that, as his writings make perfectly unmistakable. But could there have been more to it than that?
The New York Times reports that McLaren recently presided over his hold son’s same-sex promise ceremony. This would seem to signal that from the time McLaren called a “moratorium” to the time that he wrote A New Kind of Christianity, McLaren was dealing with the issue not merely as a unemotional observer but as one with a deeply personal stake in the matter. I don’t artificial to account for al
Q & R’s on homosexuality …
Here’s the first ask (or request):
i know you’re a very busy male, and i’m just a college student, but i would so appreciate your opinion on this matter. just a quick response–a few sentences even–it would mean a lot. (or perhaps you could straightforward me to a link or website where you address this issue more directly? i’ve searched and found relevant articles, but your stance was rather elusive, perhaps intentionally.)
i’d like to preface by saying that less than a year ago i had all but given up on christianity and especially on the church. but i read you’re book “a new nice of christian” based on a friends suggestion and felt deeply, deeply moved–my concerns were legitimized and my hopes of what faith could be were affirmed. now, i finally feel like i’m endorse on track in my faith and my partnership with god, even if it is a bit of a different track.
now, the question i was hoping to request you. i just finished reading another one of your books “adventures in missing the point” and i can really relate to and agree with most of it. but i felt that th
Journal: Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Volume: JBMW 15:1 (Spring 2010)
Article: Editorial: Brian McLaren, Homosexuality, and Apostolic Loathing
Author: Denny R. BurkJBMW 15:1 (Spring 2010) p. 2
Editorial:
Brian McLaren, Homosexuality,
and Apostolic LoathingDenny Burk
Editor, The Journal for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
Dean of Boyce College
Associate Professor of New TestamentThe Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville, KentuckyIn 2006, Brian McLaren infamously urged evangelicals to observe a five-year moratorium on making pronouncements about the moral status of homosexuality. He deemed Christianity’s 2,000-year-old ethic too revolting to be preached to modern people and the Bible’s teaching unclear. McLaren argued that evangelicals needed to have a five-year period of studied, meek conversation about homosexuality. In essence, McLaren told evangelicals and not to offend moderns with Christian sexual ethics.
Well, that was then, and this is now. McLaren himself has made a moral pronouncement with still a year remaining on his moratorium. In his 2010 book A New Kind of Christianity, McLaren seeks to redefine the Christian fait
Brian McLaren's Son Marries Lgbtq+ Partner
By Audrey Barrick, Christian Post Reporter
The son of author and speaker Brian McLaren, who is often identified as part of the controversial emergent church, married his same-sex partner this past weekend.
Trevor Douglas McLaren, 28, wed Owen Patrick Ryan on Saturday in Washington, according to The Novel York Times. The marriage ceremony was officiated by a Universal Life minister, and his father, Brian McLaren, led a vow ceremony with "traditional Christian elements" afterward.
The elder McLaren recently recalled to NPR the time his son – one of four sons – came out to him.
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It had just been a couple of years when McLaren shifted his thinking and abandoned the traditional view of homosexuality being a sin that he grew up with.
"I had gone through my change in this view before I ever guessed that any of my kids might be gay," he said on the radio program.
"I was a good kid, I believed what I'd been told. And as a pastor, I started having gay people appear out to me a