By Jayson D. Bradley There’s a growing polarization in America. As the gulf between the partisan left and the right continues to expand, there’s very little middle ground to be found anywhere. The Pew Research Center has tracked data since 1994 which clearly demonstrates this growing entrenchment. In 1994, Democrats and Republicans were gathered pretty closely in …
From Brian McLaren at OnFaith People who survive cancer often call it a gift. It comes as a great disruption and forces a kind of personal reckoning. Something similar could be said about the election of Donald Trump for churches in America. As we saw in Part 1, the default mode for most churches is …
From Experimental Theology by Richard Beck. A thought balloon about our current political situation. In After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre makes the argument that because modernity lost its story, to use the words of Robert Jenson, we lack a coherent moral vision of our common life together. What we have, instead, are bits and pieces of …
From Brian McLaren at OnFaith If you are a pastor, priest, or other Christian leader in the U.S., or if you are an active church member, the election of Donald Trump has changed your life and ministry, and not just a little, but a lot, and for the foreseeable future. In the last few weeks, …