Note: in addition to posting these lecture notes I posted my review of Brian’s book here
Last night I heard Brian McLaren lecture on Truth-Telling in “Christian” America: Globalization, Poverty and the Environment at Dominican University. These are my notes. This talk was based on Brian’s book Everything Must Change, except the particular emphasis on telling the truth (that was because of the lecture series this was part of).
This lecture is part of our series on Truth and Consequences. Truth is critical in the Christian tradition and it does have consequences. Truth is one of the first casualties of war.
If you’re wondering why we’re combining globalization, poverty and the environment it’s because they’re intimately related just as truth and consequences are.
Religion and Christianity have been misused and helped to obscure the truth but our faith tradition offers a critical base from which to tell the truth about – and the health of the planet.
We’re pleased to present Brian McLaren, an explorer and storyteller of the Christian tradition.
10-17-2007 |
16 Comments »I was listening to Living on Earth on Saturday. This caught my attention:
Scientists and evangelical Christians tend to have very different worldviews, but the urgent challenges posed by global warming now have some of the most eminent leaders in each camp talking and working together to save “creation’. This week they announced a coalition: a new effort to convince non-believing politicians and the public of the need to take immediate action on climate change.
01-22-2007 |
8 Comments »By ‘taking care of the environment’ I mean such things as conserving natural resources and protecting endangered species and endangered habitats.
09-18-2006 |
17 Comments »In Thoreau’s “Walden,” he said, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
In your own experience, have you found “wisdom in the woods”? What “essential facts” have you learned about life by observing and interacting with nature? Have you discovered truth and beauty through the natural world? For those who believe in God, do you feel that God has taught you lessons about life through his creation?
08-22-2006 |
11 Comments »Hi everyone!
Eliza, Julie Marie and Todd, thanks so much for taking care of the blog last week while I was on vacation. I really appreciate it!
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I had a fun time on vacation. We were staying in Door County, Wisconsin, which is a peninsula out into Lake Michigan a few hours drive north of Chicago. The county is mostly small farms away from the lakeshore. The lakeshore is lined with trees, except where the trees give way to small towns with marinas. The towns are quaint but I liked the forested lakeshore between the towns best. |
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07-17-2006 |
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