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Today we continue my conversation with Brian McLaren with the King Question. After all, King had a dream of a new kind of Christianity as well…<\/p>\n
Jazz Theologian<\/b>: Not long after telling our nation about his dream, Martin
\nLuther King Jr. said that his dream had turned into a “nightmare.” One of
\nthe reasons for this can be found in his, “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,”
\nin which he expressed his love for the church while at the same time he pled
\nwith pastors to reject the “fear of being non-conformists.” Do you ever
\nfeel like that? What do you do?<\/i><\/p>\n
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McLaren<\/b>: <\/span>The Knowing how much to risk when is a real matter for spiritual Join the Groove…what do you do with your dreams that have gone bad?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today we continue my conversation with Brian McLaren with the King Question. After all, King had a dream of a new kind of Christianity as well… Jazz Theologian: Not long after telling our nation about his dream, Martin Luther King Jr. said that his dream had turned into a “nightmare.” One of the reasons for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"yoast_head":"\n
\npressure to conform really is great, and the punishment for stepping out of
\nline can be harsh. For a lot of years, I did what a lot of people do: tried to
\nconform and stay out of trouble! But eventually, I just couldn’t do so any
\nlonger. In part, the Bible drove me out of conformity, because the Bible didn’t
\nfit in the narrow framework I was given. In part, people drove me out – when I
\nmet people who were experiencing injustice, and when I took seriously my call
\nto love them as I love myself, their burdens and concerns became my own and I
\nhad to take some risks. <\/p>\n
\ndiscernment. Some of us are liable to be too timid, and others of us to be too
\nrash, so I think there aren’t one-size-fits-all answers to this, except to say
\nthat we need to be prayerful and open to the Spirit’s guidance, and we need to
\nhave a circle of soul-friends with whom we can process our lives and our work.<\/p>\n