Conversation with Brian McLaren

The complicated family history of the faith we inherited: Episode four.

Ezekiel starts with a theological grenade. God wasn't back with the remnant in Jerusalem - God was here, with the exiles, in Babylon. “In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.”

Jerusalem has fallen. The temple is destroyed. People have been killed, displaced or deported. The city that represented security, identity and the presence of God is desolate. Welcome to the world of Lamentations.

Most of our Christian Bible consists of writings inherited from ancient Israel and Judaism. Christianity didn’t begin with a blank page at Christmas. Jesus, his disciples and the first Christians inherited an already ancient, complicated and contested conversation.

Sermon from 05 July 2026 at Harbour

If God is love, then maybe we’ve gotten omnipotence wrong. What if God and Love (Agape) are really two words trying to name the same reality?

What happens between Ascension and Pentecost?

From our March theme: "Rewilding God"

From our March theme: "Rewilding God"

From our March theme: "Rewilding God"