{"id":1087,"date":"2012-09-26T20:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/orthodoxyandheterodoxy\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2012-09-26T20:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T00:09:23","slug":"emergent-church-leader-performs-same-sex-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/orthodoxyandheterodoxy\/2012\/09\/26\/emergent-church-leader-performs-same-sex-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Church Leader Performs Same-Sex Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Christianity Today<\/a>) Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christian<\/em> and a prominent Christian speaker, led a non-traditional marriage commitment ceremony<\/a> this weekend, according to The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Held at the Audubon Naturalist Society in Chevy Chase, Maryland, this ceremony included “traditional Christian elements,” but no bride. And the groom—one of them—was McLaren’s son, Trevor McLaren. The Times<\/em> reports that Trevor McLaren wed Owen Ryan Saturday in Washington, D.C., followed by the afternoon commitment ceremony.<\/p>\n

Brian McLaren, who formerly was chair of the board for Sojourners, is among a minority of evangelical progressives who advocate that the church should abandon heterosexism and move toward reconciliation<\/a> with homosexuals.<\/p>\n

CT has previously covered Brian McLaren<\/a>, including reviews of his book Everything Must Change<\/em><\/a> and The Secret Message of Jesus<\/em><\/a>, and the emergent church<\/a>, with which McLaren has been associated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This really shouldn’t surprise hardly anyone, despite McLaren’s continuing popularity with many in the mega-church and emergent movements. It’s all fun and games when one publishes books<\/a> with subtitles like Why I am a missional, evangelical, post\/protestant, liberal\/conservative, mystical\/poetic, biblical, charismatic\/contemplative, fundamentalist\/Calvinist, Anabaptist\/Anglican, Methodist, catholic, green, incarnational, depressed- yet hopeful, emergent, unfinished Christian<\/i>. But then of course once in a while it turns out that that sort of thing (“A Generous Orthodoxy”?) essentially is smoke and mirrors masking a dedication to something other than the rather robust doctrinal and moral sensibilities associated with the communities most of those words generally signify.<\/p>\n

His speaking schedule lately has apparently been fairly limited to “emergent” and mainline churches, but no doubt he’s still selling books. One hopes that less wind-blown Evangelicals will just get on with classifying McLaren’s work as yet another permutation of liberal mainline theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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