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Hi, friends - I wanted to be sure you know about Southern Lights, January 23-25, 2026, on the beautiful Georgia coast. It's an amazing time of fellowship, amazing speakers, and gifted artists (this year, a world-class poet and musicians). Links here:
brianmclaren.net/are-you-carr...
brianmclaren.net/are-you-carr...
Are you carrying some mixture of grief, anger, and fear and not sure what to do with it? - Brian McLaren
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December 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hi, friends - I wanted to be sure you know about Southern Lights, January 23-25, 2026, on the beautiful Georgia coast. It's an amazing time of fellowship, amazing speakers, and gifted artists (this year, a world-class poet and musicians). Links here:
brianmclaren.net/are-you-carr...
brianmclaren.net/are-you-carr...
It's giving Tuesday. If you have a generous impulse today, I hope you'll consider joining me in supporting a project that is focused on young people. You can learn more here: www.zoeoncampus.com/donate
Donate | ZOE On Campus
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December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's giving Tuesday. If you have a generous impulse today, I hope you'll consider joining me in supporting a project that is focused on young people. You can learn more here: www.zoeoncampus.com/donate
TOMORROW (Tuesday 2 December -- 11 ET/8 PT) I'll be part of a live conversation with Bill McKibben, Rupert Read, and John Izzo ... on THE CLIMATE CROSSROADS. I hope you'll join us! eldersaction.org/event/podcas...
eldersaction.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
TOMORROW (Tuesday 2 December -- 11 ET/8 PT) I'll be part of a live conversation with Bill McKibben, Rupert Read, and John Izzo ... on THE CLIMATE CROSSROADS. I hope you'll join us! eldersaction.org/event/podcas...
A resource for your Thanksgiving ... brianmclaren.net/thanksgiving...
Thanksgiving 2025 - Brian McLaren
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November 27, 2025 at 4:23 PM
A resource for your Thanksgiving ... brianmclaren.net/thanksgiving...
Can you explain The Beatitudes? brianmclaren.net/q-r-can-you-...
Q & R: Can you explain the beatitudes? - Brian McLaren
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November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Can you explain The Beatitudes? brianmclaren.net/q-r-can-you-...
If you are a conservative Christian - or a progressive Christian - I think this is one of the most important articles you could read in 2025: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you are a conservative Christian - or a progressive Christian - I think this is one of the most important articles you could read in 2025: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Important insight today from my friend Randy Woodley: open.substack.com/pub/rwoodley...
With Friends Like This: Exposing Trump's Anti-Indian Campaign
This is historical revisionism designed to erase Indigenous contributions while celebrating their oppressors.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Important insight today from my friend Randy Woodley: open.substack.com/pub/rwoodley...
Why come to the Southern Lights Conference in January 2026? brianmclaren.net/why-should-y...
Why Should You Come to Southern Lights? - Brian McLaren
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November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Why come to the Southern Lights Conference in January 2026? brianmclaren.net/why-should-y...
To all my Pentecostal and Charismatic friends - here is a wise and timely love letter from my dear friend Samuel Lee. Please let me know what you think, and if you agree with Samuel, please spread this message to your networks. www.samlee.org/single-post/...
The Plea of a Brother: Toward Renewal in Independent Pentecostal and Charismatic Communities
A call to repentance, reformation, and rediscovery of true PentecostI write this not as an outsider or critic, but as one who has walked this Pentecostal road for more than three decades — as clergy, ...
www.samlee.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
To all my Pentecostal and Charismatic friends - here is a wise and timely love letter from my dear friend Samuel Lee. Please let me know what you think, and if you agree with Samuel, please spread this message to your networks. www.samlee.org/single-post/...
Why I so highly recommend Diana Butler Bass's new book, A Beautiful Year; brianmclaren.net/a-beautiful-...
Available here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Available here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
A Beautiful Book in an Ugly Time - Brian McLaren
brianmclaren.net
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Why I so highly recommend Diana Butler Bass's new book, A Beautiful Year; brianmclaren.net/a-beautiful-...
Available here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Available here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Today I went to a US government website and read the blatant lies and propaganda the Trump administration has posted there about the shutdown. If you are still a supporter of Trump, I hope you will ask yourself what "too far" might be for you, and whether this is it. Thanks for considering this.
October 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today I went to a US government website and read the blatant lies and propaganda the Trump administration has posted there about the shutdown. If you are still a supporter of Trump, I hope you will ask yourself what "too far" might be for you, and whether this is it. Thanks for considering this.
If my work has been of value to you, and if you do year-end giving, would you consider this? donorbox.org/founder-s-fa...
To learn more about ZOEonCampus, check out www.zoeoncampus.com
To learn more about ZOEonCampus, check out www.zoeoncampus.com
Founder's Fall Challenge 2025 | Zoe: Progressive Christian Life on Campus (Powered by Donorbox)
ZOE's co-founders, Brian McLaren and Jim Burklo, have thrown down the ZOE FOUNDERS' FALL CHALLENGE - match their $30,000 total gift and help get ZOE to our goal of $60,000 by the end of the year!Prog...
donorbox.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If my work has been of value to you, and if you do year-end giving, would you consider this? donorbox.org/founder-s-fa...
To learn more about ZOEonCampus, check out www.zoeoncampus.com
To learn more about ZOEonCampus, check out www.zoeoncampus.com
It would be hard to convey the spirit of Jim Finley in a few words and a single photograph, but my friend Daniel Epstein did so ... beautifully: portraitsinfaith.org/james-finley/
James Finley
Portraits in Faith is not about religion. It is about documenting the role of spiritual experience inside and outside of formal religion, expected and unexpected, told in people’s own words, and broug...
portraitsinfaith.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It would be hard to convey the spirit of Jim Finley in a few words and a single photograph, but my friend Daniel Epstein did so ... beautifully: portraitsinfaith.org/james-finley/
"We neither grasp the power of capital nor the capital of power." -- Rev. David Moore. More insight here: open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
“Black Republican” Part Two
The Logic of Black Conservatism:
open.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"We neither grasp the power of capital nor the capital of power." -- Rev. David Moore. More insight here: open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
"Buddha called it non-attachment. The Hindus call it vairāgya, acting without clinging to results. In Islam, it’s zuhd—the simplicity that keeps the heart soft to God. The Taoists talk about wu wei, the way of doing less so that life can move through you...." (1/2)
Silence on Aisle Nine
(or The Sound of Being Enough)
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October 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"Buddha called it non-attachment. The Hindus call it vairāgya, acting without clinging to results. In Islam, it’s zuhd—the simplicity that keeps the heart soft to God. The Taoists talk about wu wei, the way of doing less so that life can move through you...." (1/2)
"A nation can be great and still fail at being good." Kelly Burton. More here: thepublicintellectual.substack.com?utm_campaign...
The Public Intellectual | Kelly Burton | Substack
A place for deep takes, not hot takes. Click to read The Public Intellectual, by Kelly Burton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
thepublicintellectual.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"A nation can be great and still fail at being good." Kelly Burton. More here: thepublicintellectual.substack.com?utm_campaign...
What do you say to comfort "a people ruled by a verbally incontinent and mentally limited codger reduced to repeating the same silliness over and over"? More Bill McKibben brilliance here: open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
The Stupidest Speech in UN History
Everyone's saying so!
open.substack.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
What do you say to comfort "a people ruled by a verbally incontinent and mentally limited codger reduced to repeating the same silliness over and over"? More Bill McKibben brilliance here: open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
What an important and enjoyable conversation! You can watch it on youtube here: youtu.be/VTxVO-e2f0Q?..., or listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Faith, Love, and Courage After Collapse:A Conversation with Brian McLaren, Author of Life After Doom
YouTube video by The Way Forward: Regenerative Conversations
youtu.be
September 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
What an important and enjoyable conversation! You can watch it on youtube here: youtu.be/VTxVO-e2f0Q?..., or listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Another wise voice I hope you'll listen to ... open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
Indigenous Wisdom and Black Futures
At the Crossroads of Empire and Spirit
open.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Another wise voice I hope you'll listen to ... open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
A brilliant, insightful, and often funny voice I recommend you pay attention to: open.substack.com/pub/dgutierr...
Everything Belongs (Even on the Tracks)
(or two Kirks, a smirk, and a runaway trolley)
open.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A brilliant, insightful, and often funny voice I recommend you pay attention to: open.substack.com/pub/dgutierr...
"Everything Black people have endured in this country has been under democracy — not outside it. Time and again, American democracy has cleared the way for powerful men to do whatever they want." Truth from the brilliant Kelly Burton: more here: thepublicintellectual.substack.com?utm_campaign...
The Public Intellectual | Kelly Burton | Substack
A place for deep takes, not hot takes. Click to read The Public Intellectual, by Kelly Burton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
thepublicintellectual.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Everything Black people have endured in this country has been under democracy — not outside it. Time and again, American democracy has cleared the way for powerful men to do whatever they want." Truth from the brilliant Kelly Burton: more here: thepublicintellectual.substack.com?utm_campaign...
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When the future feels uncertain, perhaps the real question is: how will we show up?
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August 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
When the future feels uncertain, perhaps the real question is: how will we show up?
nomadpodcast.co.uk for the full conversation with @briandmclaren.bsky.social
nomadpodcast.co.uk for the full conversation with @briandmclaren.bsky.social
My thoughts: those who oppose gun reform are complicit in America’s mass shootings. My prayers: that voters will throw out all those politicians who love guns (and NRA backing) more than children and their families.
August 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
My thoughts: those who oppose gun reform are complicit in America’s mass shootings. My prayers: that voters will throw out all those politicians who love guns (and NRA backing) more than children and their families.
If you have ears to hear ... youtu.be/RJiwovX3mNA?...
The Great Caucasian God
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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August 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
If you have ears to hear ... youtu.be/RJiwovX3mNA?...
Friends in and around Nashville (and beyond) - you might be interested in this. I'm looking forward to being part of it! faithjustice.net/fall-gatheri...
Fall Gathering 2025: Resilient Faith - Center for Faith and Justice
Resilient Faith: Finding Our Way in Uncertain Times Sep 11-13, 2025 | Nashville, TN In a world marked by division […]
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August 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Friends in and around Nashville (and beyond) - you might be interested in this. I'm looking forward to being part of it! faithjustice.net/fall-gatheri...