Brian McLaren & Jim Wallis at Princeton Seminary
January 8, 2008
As part of Princeton Theological Seminary’s Spring Book Club Series, both Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren will be at Princeton Seminary during April of 2008. Jim Wallis will be speaking about his book, The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America on April 10th from 6.30–8.30pm (register here) and Brian McLaren will be speaking about his book, Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crisis and a Revolution of Hope on April 15th from 6.30–8.30pm (register here).
These events are free and you can register for them here. I’m guessing these will fill up soon, so I would recommend registering early. The Princeton Emergent Cohort will be meeting after Brian McLaren’s talk, on April 15th. Brian will most likely have to head home after the Book Club, but if he decides to stay in the area, he said that he may be able to come and join us for the cohort.
Tags: Books, Brian-McLaren, Emergent, Jim-Wallis, Sojourners
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 year old 
April 24th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Everything must change? What kind of stuff is this? What happened to Jesus being the same yesterday, today, and forever?
For those of you who went to this, please seek God’s word and ask Him to reveal His truth to you..
The things these men are teaching are not completely biblical.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:50 am
Everything must change refers to how we must change our behavior in order to follow Jesus in the way that he wants us to follow. The point is that we have to open our eyes to see that God in Christ has loving and justly freed us from sin and slavery to the powers and principalties and loving and justly freed us for kingdom living…a kingdom not of this world…a kingdom and system that doesn’t operate on the War-Economic-Greed-Environmental Destruction System.
Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tommorow and is challenging us just as he did folks in Jerusalem to not buy into Empire living.
Brian McClaren and Jim Wallis’ stuff couldn’t be any more biblical.
Have you even read any of their books? If you did, you’d see they’re pretty biblically based; doesn’t mean you have to agree exactly with their interpretation. Everyone brings a different meaning to the text. Doesn’t always mean those differences of opinion are wrong or bad.
Both authors do their research, and are faithful to scripture and to being followers of Jesus who believe the world can be changed if we stop living in the world as selfish consumers who horde pleasure for ourselves and start living as selfless servants and sharers of God’s love and mercy through word and deed to everyone, particularly those on the margins of society. Their words are prophetic and truth-telling. As scripture points out over and over again, prophets aren’t usually received well by the people; some aren’t welcome in their home towns.
If you want to worry about something and ask for God’s truth to be revealed then go after the false prophets that Paul describes in his letters…the Joel Osteens, Pat Robertsons of the world who preach a gospel of wealth and fear and hate-mongering. Someone who encourages folks to pray for a parking space and they will receive it, isn’t in the Bible or match up with any of the warnings Jesus had for the rich and his commands to take care of the least of these.