{"id":39,"date":"2010-02-15T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/what-would-you-ask-brian-mclaren.html"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:37:58","slug":"what-would-you-ask-brian-mclaren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/what-would-you-ask-brian-mclaren.html","title":{"rendered":"What would you ask Brian McLaren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazztheologianblog.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef012877a5c09a970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A New Kind of Christianity\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c63c953ef012877a5c09a970c  selected\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jazztheologianblog.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c63c953ef012877a5c09a970c-120pi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;margin-right: 0px;margin-bottom: 5px;margin-left: 5px\" \/><\/a> <br \/>Brian McLaren has a new book out called, &quot;<em>A New Kind of Christianity: &#160;Ten Questions that are Transforming Faith<\/em>&quot;. When it comes to Christianity he says that there is bad news: &#160;&quot;the Christian faith in all its forms is in trouble.&quot; and good news: &quot;the Christian faith in all its forms is pregnant with new possibilities.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I finish the book I&#039;ll be interviewing him for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanfaith.com\" target=\"_blank\">UrbanFaith.com<\/a>. &#160;He is one of the premiere (and at times polarizing) Christian thinkers of the last decade generation.&#160;<br \/>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you were to ask Brian McLaren anything, what would it be?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian McLaren has a new book out called, &quot;A New Kind of Christianity: &#160;Ten Questions that are Transforming Faith&quot;. When it comes to Christianity he says that there is bad news: &#160;&quot;the Christian faith in all its forms is in trouble.&quot; and good news: &quot;the Christian faith in all its forms is pregnant with new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-music-movies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What would you ask Brian McLaren? - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2010\/02\/what-would-you-ask-brian-mclaren.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What would you ask Brian McLaren? - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Brian McLaren has a new book out called, &quot;A New Kind of Christianity: &#160;Ten Questions that are Transforming Faith&quot;. 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