Media and More
Want to spread the word about the Christian Leadership Center's upcoming seminar with Brian McLaren? Want to host a small group study in preparation for the seminar? Just want to know more about Brian McLaren?
Learn About Brian McLaren
To learn more about the activist, author, and pastor Brian McLaren, visit his homepage: http://www.brianmclaren.net. There, you can learn all about his books, bio, etc.
Spread the Word
Please use the resources below to share information about "Servant Leaders as Agents of Social Change: A Seminar with Brian McLaren" with your church community and beyond:
- Text for your church bulletin: .doc | .pdf
- Text for your church newsletter: .doc | .pdf
- Press release: .pdf
- Text for an email to share with friends: .doc | .pdf
- PowerPoint slide to include in church announcements or other presentations: .ppt
- Flyer (email to request printed flyers to share) or banner: .pdf
Host a Small Group
Brian McLaren's webpage offers these and other helpful resources for small groups reading through his books:
- Study questions (.pdf) for his latest book A New Kind of Christianity, which our seminar will specifically address. You can also find easy links to order the book and download bonus chapters here.
- McLaren teamed up with theooze.tv to make a video for each question he explores in A New Kind of Christianity—questions he believes are transforming the Christian faith—and you might enjoy using these short videos as chapter summaries to begin small group gatherings about the book. Here's his video about Question 4: The Jesus Question. . . .
- A study guide (.pdf) for Everything Must Change, which the CLC undergraduate program is studying during the 2010-2011 academic year.
A New Kind of Christianity
McLaren has provided helpful media about his latest book, A New Kind of Christianity:
- McLaren wrote a summary of A New Kind of Christianity at The Huffington Post.
- With theooze.tv, McLaren made a short video about each of the ten questions he explores in A New Kind of Christianity.
Others have also written and spoken about the the book:
- Barbara Bradley Hagerty covered the controversy about the book for NPR (the link includes a transcript of the story and an excerpt from the book).
- Scot McKnight http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/march/3.59.html | reviewed] A New Kind of Christianity for Christianity Today.
- Anthony B. Robinson reviewed the book for The Christian Century.
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