I rewarded myself
12th April 2005
To celebrate my finally landing a job of my dreams (more about that later), I ordered the following books:
The first one is Brian McLaren’s A Generous Orthodoxy. Recently, I have been engaged in several conversations with folks who were discussing McLaren’s ideas. I had not heard of McLaren before I started reading blogs sometime last year, and since then, I have been very much encouraged, inspired and interested in what I have heard about what he is saying and doing.
I think it is a good thing, what McLaren’s trying to do - getting people to engage in conversations about what it means to follow Jesus in light of the history of the Church - one that is often been marred by a great deal of brokenness, distortions, dogmatism and much ineffectiveness in doing what the Church has been called to do, in the midst of a great deal of beauty and an abundance of grace and mercy. Read the rest of this entry »
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