We know well what it means for people to be dissatisfied with Christianity, or to blurt out “I’m finished!” and publicly walk away. I’ve even heard people proclaim that the term “Christian” has been so torn apart in the battle-to-the-death between liberals and conservatives that there’s no longer any point in using the term at all. Should we all be post-Christian now?
In responding to “Why Big Tent Christianity?” a few days ago, Ian Carmichael worried about my use of the phrase, “To those on the other side…” Ian writes, Read the rest of Who Defines the “Big Tent” of Christianity? »
Brian McLaren and I are organizing a major public conference on September 8-9 in Raleigh, North Carolina in order to make the call for a return to “Big Tent Christianity.” Why is this call important?
Click here for a new two-minute video — an invitation to Pat Robertson and John Shelby Spong to join us at the Big Tent Christianity celebration this September (check it out at BigTentChristianity.com), to share a hug on stage, and to publically acknowledge each other as brothers in faith. Or is there, according to these gentlemen, no longer anything that Christians share in common? On the video I’ve added a challenge to Stephen Colbert to let Brian McLaren and me make this public challenge on the Colbert Report — whether his motives are serious or merely for comic effect (or both!).
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