A New Kind of Christian : A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

from jd234512

This book, like the others in the series are quite incredible. Although McLaren is not exactly the best fiction writer, there are so many rich moments in these books that bring up points which cause you to stop and think. This ability more than makes up for the story, which seems to lack in some ...

from RevMare

After hearing so much about emerging church et al, I finally decided I needed to read this book and found it very powerful. (Reading it on my Kindle, I discovered that I had exceeded the maximum highlight/clip limit about halfway through!) For years I have been frustrated at feeling that the chur...

from mtbearded1

60 of 75 for 2015. Essentially a dialogue between a minister in an evangelical church who is questioning everything he believes and a high school teacher who belongs to an Episcopal parish in suburban D.C., A New Kind of Christian will have all open-minded believers wondering if there is a way to...

from NGood

I have heard a lot of bad things about this book, which caused me to be extremely surprised to find that I actually agree with him on many counts. There are a lot of problems that I have with Christianity as we know it, and what we've come to make our Christian culture, and he addresses many of t...

from Madcow299

I enjoyed the book and found it challenging. While I do not agree with all the authors suppositions, I found many of his questions eye opening and his suggestions perhaps enlightening as the church transitions over this next few decades. I liked his ideas of utilizing traditional methods of spiri...