Brian Mclaren

Both religion and politics are concerned with how we should organize societies. What does the Bible tell us about how we are supposed to organize our common life together so that we can actually bear the image of God to all creation?

I'm still hungry for the community faith can provide when its not busy judging others. I want to share that good news. And Wild Goose Festival is the place I've discovered that shares that vision.

It is in relationship that we find out who we are as humans, and what matters most in life. We as humans are made for relationship, and outside of relationship cannot be truly ourselves.

Over the past 20 years, there has been a growing movement to reclaim Christianity from those who've distorted it into something that Jesus and his earliest followers wouldn't easily recognize.

Wild Goose Festival is going to grow into the largest, best run, most dynamic religious happening in the U.S. There are lots of smart spiritually hungry people with their eyes open.

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That innate tendency toward finding what we're already looking for is why now, since returning to a faith that saved my life, I try to listen, not just talk.

We are facing challenges of a generation-defining nature. The call is upon all of us to enter into the future not as spectators awaiting the end of things but as co-creators and participants.

Only time will tell whether more evangelical leaders will add their voices to the chorus calling for full and unapologetic inclusion of homosexuals in the life of the church.

"Big tent" is also a prophetic challenge to the rancorous debates that are the public face of religion today. The Religious Left and the Religious Right look more and like Washington. The younger generations look for something more positive from Christian faith.

There is a fundamental question facing Christian sects in America, an ideological distinction that cleaves the many churches into two different camps: is it better to fit the church and Christianity to the world, or is it better to mold the world to the faith?

It's not hard to fall out with the most conservative elements of any religious community. One of the ways conservative authority figures multiply their power is by keeping moderate elements afraid of becoming the objects of conservative ire.

There is no question that Christians, Muslims, Jews, and others have been violent in God's name. The question is whether we believe violence is inherent to the character of God.

It is my hope that the future of the Christian faith of which I am part will be shaped by a quest and questions - in some sectors at least, acknowledging that many will prefer to uphold the primarily conservative focus they inherited.