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

by Brian McLaren

McLaren started this book as a totally nonfiction treatise on Christianity and postmodernity, but after he got about 100 pages into it, he realized the book was on the road to becoming 500 pages of abstraction - and no one would read it. So, he started over, taking the advice of a perceptive reviewer of The Church on the Other Side. “If McLaren is serious about what he's saying,” the reviewer said, “he should be writing fiction.” So, he began rewriting using a fictional dialogue as framework for the book. The book has made a few people angry, as you can discover by doing a search at Christianity Today (or reading comments at Amazon). But the negative comments have, so far at least, been negligible compared to the affirming ones. He set the book up so that it could be the first of a trilogy.

A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations.

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