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    The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
    The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
    The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian

    Written by Brian McLaren

    Narrated by Brian McLaren

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    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 religion, argues that-notwithstanding the dire headlines about the demise of faith and drop in church attendance-Christian faith is not dying. Rather, it is embarking on a once-in-an-era spiritual shift. For millions, the journey has already begun.

    Drawing from his work as global activist, pastor, and public theologian, McLaren challenges listeners to stop worrying, waiting, and indulging in nostalgia, and instead, to embrace the powerful new understandings that are reshaping the church. In The Great Spiritual Migration, he explores three profound shifts that define the change:

    Spiritually, growing numbers of Christians are moving away from defining themselves by lists of beliefs and toward a way of life defined by love
    Theologically, believers are increasingly rejecting the image of God as a violent Supreme Being and embracing the image of God as the renewing Spirit at work in our world for the common good
    Missionally, the faithful are identifying less with organized religion and more with organizing religion-spiritual activists dedicated to healing the planet, building peace, overcoming poverty and injustice, and collaborating with other faiths to ensure a better future for all of us

    With his trademark brilliance and compassion, McLaren invites listeners to seize the moment and set out on the most significant spiritual pilgrimage of our time: to help Christianity become more Christian. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781681683256
    The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
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    Brian McLaren

    Brian McLaren is founding pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore-Washington region. He is the author of numerous books including A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy and Finding Our Way Again.

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    • 5/5
      McLaren has written an accessible and compelling vision of emerging Christian practice that follows a familiar personal journey for those who report to have grown into deeper understandings of a life in faith beyond rigid fundamentalism. In the end, a way of life as a way of love is described that fulfills the call to humans to be divine image bearers, by caring for ourselves, our neighbors, and our world. This an inspiring message in a fractious time for faith and love.
    • 5/5
      I so appreciated hearing the author read. Feelings are transmitted through the sound waves. I'm getting a few people together to experience the book together.
      Thank you.
    • 5/5
      If you are new to deconstructing your faith, or are simply longing for something that is real and authentic, ‘The Great Spiritual Migration’ is an excellent starting point. Through personal experience in his own journey, Brian gently walks through what Christianity needs to be to reach the world, and dares us to dream a better vision for our faith.