Imagine what a “safe landing” would look like in a swirling, stormy world, in which we experience “economic meltdown, climate countdown,...

“The world has been ending off and on for almost all of recorded history….” Mathematician and collapsologist B. Sidney Smith, in How to...

Those struggling with addiction are familiar with the Serenity Prayer, which is often used to close Alcoholics Anonymous meetings:   God...

“In 1973, anthropologist Ernest Becker published the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Denial of Death . The book explains how our species...

We left you last chapter with a question: you may wonder if McLaren is too negative about Western civilization. Is there nothing that...

Brian McLaren has tried to show us that it is hard if not impossible for us to remove the rose-colored glasses through which we view our...

At the end of the last chapter we concluded that we would need some help removing our rose-colored glasses that only allow us to see...

We return to our summary of Brian McLaren's Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart . To read previous chapter...

On January 9 the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) through their North American church planting arm (Mission to North America) posted...

Joanna Macy, Ph.D, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. She is a respected voice and activist in peace, justice...

So which is the better band - the Stones or the Beatles? The answer is, of course, Led Zeppelin. That's how this conversation about the...

Theologian Sallie McFague (1933–2019) centers compassionate change in a passionate love for God:    At the center of Jesus’ message as...

Given the reality of a likely doomsday scenario, what role does hope play?   It’s complicated, says McLaren. Hope as we tend to think of...

Brian McLaren grew up in the Plymouth Brethren community, a very conservative Christian group. From his childhood, he was taught that the...

After the shock of confronting reality and responding with the instincts for survival, belonging and meaning, grief can hit us. Grief,...

The famous English scholar and theologian N.T. Wright tells the story of riding in a cab in London when the cabbie noticed his clerical...

On this New Year's Day, 2025, a reminder from The Many that we are here to love. Everything and everyone. Drawing on indie pop and gospel...

The pivotal chapter in Life After Doom  is the 2nd chapter, “Welcome to Reality”, in which McLaren sketches four possible scenarios for...

"Reverse racism" is a term used by the white, majority culture to describe what is felt as discrimination against them, usually in the...

The First Nations Version New Testament was birthed out of a desire to provide an English Bible that connects, in a culturally relevant...