Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed and the Disillusioned

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We saw with heartbreaking clarity how Christian Zionism hurts Palestinians, whether they’re Christian or Muslim. Through sermons, books, radio/TV “ministries,” and other media, I was repeatedly informed about the worst atrocities across history committed by non-Christians. Fr Richard Rohr, OFM, founder of the Center for Action and Contemplation, author of The Universal Christ From the author of WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING and FAITH AFTER DOUBT, guidance for those who are grappling with faith. We're the richest, largest and most well- armed religion on the planet, and if we remain unwilling to acknowledge and learn from our past, we pose a serious threat to the very existence of humanity.

Do I Stay Christian Book Review of Brian McLaren’s Do I Stay Christian

When I arrived, he escorted me through the crowd and whispered in my ear, “We’re glad to have you speak to our conference.

In this new version of the Gospel, the Church is the villain, and Jesus and the Bible are at best supporting players as we listen to the Gospel of Brian. When their kind faces and thoughtful eyes come to mind, I feel a deep and complex irony: might it sometimes be necessary, to follow Jesus’ example of deep solidarity with the oppressed, to leave the religion associated with Jesus entirely? Until the Christian faith unites more passionately and decisively in acknowledging its ugly anti-Semitic history (which is ongoing and, in some places, experiencing a resurgence), I must be sympathetic to those who say they can’t stay Christian for this reason alone. But one thing is clear: anti-Semitism is not like a freak accident that happens randomly to individuals. I was taught the heroic stories of Christian missionaries, of special interest to me because my paternal grandfather was a Scottish missionary to Angola.

Do I Stay Christian? by Brian D. McLaren - The Church Times

But I also know that struggles of religious identity are sensitive and touch the deepest part of us, so we'll proceed with all due seriousness and tenderness too, along with honesty and grace. A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Perhaps people could sense this, which would explain why so many people have "come out" to me over the years as thinking about leaving Christian identity. When I saw the beautiful cover art by Young Jin Lim, I felt that in a few simple lines, he had captured the emotion that many of us feel. Over two hundred pogroms—or organized massacres—erupted during that plague outbreak alone, with an especially horrific massacre occurring in Strasbourg, France, on Valentine’s Day, 1349.

Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Dis…

I suspect that the money changers, the Pharisees and Pilate would dispute the claim that Jesus never ruined the life of anyone! In his chapters on the reasons to abandon Christianity, there is a seeming obsessive quality of his context with the broader issues at stake, including violence, colonialism, and patriarchy. I was born a decade after the Holocaust, at a time when fundamentalist Christians like Jerry Falwell, Sr. I was even taught that Christianity was the incubator of humanity’s greatest art and literature, from da Vinci and Rembrandt to Bach and Handel to Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky. Brian's formula for the salvation of the Church is a million miles away from that which Christ offers us in his Word.While he believes that traditional theism (“that old Big White Guy on a Throne in the Sky”) has to go, he is convinced that Christianity can evolve into something far more beautiful. Their Faustian deal with Donald Trump gave them enormous political power, as well as a willing strongman to enforce their white fundamentalism on the wider culture. McLaren informs us that he thinks it is "highly likely that Jesus existed and that he was a uniquely extraordinary human being.