Brian McLaren

I have never really known what to make of Brian McLaren besides his status as uber-trendy man du jour. The trendy seminary kids love him; the fundamentalists hate him. Is he just another foil complicit in the turning of the American Church into a big youth camp, or is he truly an intellectual trying to return the Church toward its roots. Is he seeking reformation or just another trend to push book sales? Regardless, I love this quotation from this week's Baptist Standard.

"When we present Jesus as a pro-war, anti-poor, anti-homosexual, anti-environment, pro-nuclear weapons authority figure draped in an American flag, I think we are making a travesty of the portrait of Jesus we find in the gospels."