great article, causing some very useful reflection on the differences between fundaments and conservatives. I would encourage you to finish the horse race, especially through the 70s, 80s and nineties. Thanks much
i remember at a world parliament there was a clergy from south africa who said where are your scars because the scars are where your spirituality should be... thankyou for the great critical comments to the mainliners and the fundamentalists
I am heart-broken and angry about the school massacre in Texas yesterday. I pray that people will finally vote for people who are in favor of reasonable gun control. I am thankful that the Southern Lights conference is this weekend. Safe travels to all.
I recently gave a subscription of the Cottage to my pastor. I complimented his sermon which dovetailed Brian’s beautifully. My pastor thought Brian’s sermon was “Awesome”, and I wholeheartedly agree! Thank you, Diana, for sharing it on your platform and big thanks to Brian for challenging us ALL.
"Save us from weak resignation" have always been words that mattered so very much to me from the hymn. Seems it is too easy to give in when things are really getting tough. What has been happening in Ukraine for now about 90 days reminds me that without all the folks who did the hard work of marching, getting beaten within an inch of their lives, or even dying from beatings, gun shots, and lynchings, we'd not even have the Voting Rights Amendment. Ukrainians want a nation that is not run like Russia or Belarus, or dare I say, Hungary. Something about elections scares the bajeebers out of republicans. It is so easy for the "originalists"/ "fundamentalists" to assert and reassert themselves. I guess they are always at work drawing lines between "us" and "them" while too many of us, I include myself, assume once done always done. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Absolutely a WOW!!!! sermon. Thank you Brian McLaren for permitting this be shared. Thank you Diana Butler Bass for continually pushing your readers to think differently and mor boldly.
Rousing words indeed! A wonderful call to action. I especially like the line 'most of us Mainliners keeping busy micromanaging our decline'. Thanks so much for sharing it - very worth sharing. M.
Finally got to it that is reading the sermon as others say just wow and encouragement. Wish I could stay in Georgia longer and come on down to St Simon . Praying safe travel for all this week.
Great ending, "That question we must answer, not with words alone, but with the liturgy of our lives.”
Thanks for sharing the CAC podcast. Really my first time to listen to Brian McLaren even tho' I have known about him. I loved that he ended with the Beatitudes.
Thanks, Diana & Brian…whose sermon is one which touches any of us who follow Christ, regardless of the tradition or ways of worship, in a wake-up call that tells it like it is, and urges serious examination of all of us!
Wow, thank you both for such an eye-opening sermon on where we are as people of God. Lord, grant us wisdom, grant as courage for the living of these days.
great article, causing some very useful reflection on the differences between fundaments and conservatives. I would encourage you to finish the horse race, especially through the 70s, 80s and nineties. Thanks much
i remember at a world parliament there was a clergy from south africa who said where are your scars because the scars are where your spirituality should be... thankyou for the great critical comments to the mainliners and the fundamentalists
I am heart-broken and angry about the school massacre in Texas yesterday. I pray that people will finally vote for people who are in favor of reasonable gun control. I am thankful that the Southern Lights conference is this weekend. Safe travels to all.
I recently gave a subscription of the Cottage to my pastor. I complimented his sermon which dovetailed Brian’s beautifully. My pastor thought Brian’s sermon was “Awesome”, and I wholeheartedly agree! Thank you, Diana, for sharing it on your platform and big thanks to Brian for challenging us ALL.
"Save us from weak resignation" have always been words that mattered so very much to me from the hymn. Seems it is too easy to give in when things are really getting tough. What has been happening in Ukraine for now about 90 days reminds me that without all the folks who did the hard work of marching, getting beaten within an inch of their lives, or even dying from beatings, gun shots, and lynchings, we'd not even have the Voting Rights Amendment. Ukrainians want a nation that is not run like Russia or Belarus, or dare I say, Hungary. Something about elections scares the bajeebers out of republicans. It is so easy for the "originalists"/ "fundamentalists" to assert and reassert themselves. I guess they are always at work drawing lines between "us" and "them" while too many of us, I include myself, assume once done always done. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Absolutely a WOW!!!! sermon. Thank you Brian McLaren for permitting this be shared. Thank you Diana Butler Bass for continually pushing your readers to think differently and mor boldly.
Thank you for sharing🙏❤️ Good food for thought! Safe travels🙏
A powerful sermon and a powerful hymn. Such a coincidence that it was our anthem for May 22. https://youtu.be/LgNwUP4yH84
Rousing words indeed! A wonderful call to action. I especially like the line 'most of us Mainliners keeping busy micromanaging our decline'. Thanks so much for sharing it - very worth sharing. M.
thanks for sharing Brian's sermon.
Finally got to it that is reading the sermon as others say just wow and encouragement. Wish I could stay in Georgia longer and come on down to St Simon . Praying safe travel for all this week.
Great ending, "That question we must answer, not with words alone, but with the liturgy of our lives.”
Thanks for sharing the CAC podcast. Really my first time to listen to Brian McLaren even tho' I have known about him. I loved that he ended with the Beatitudes.
Thanks, Diana & Brian…whose sermon is one which touches any of us who follow Christ, regardless of the tradition or ways of worship, in a wake-up call that tells it like it is, and urges serious examination of all of us!
Wow, thank you both for such an eye-opening sermon on where we are as people of God. Lord, grant us wisdom, grant as courage for the living of these days.
Thanks Diana and Brian!! Just what I needed today.
Sometimes it feels like a voice crying out in the wilderness. The ritual is paramount but nothing seems evident outside of the building.