Everything Must Change: Jesus, Global Crises, and a Revolution of Hope.(Book review)

Publication: International Journal on World Peace

Publication Date: 01-MAR-08

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EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE: JESUS, GLOBAL CRISES, AND A REVOLUTION OF HOPE

Brian McLaren

Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007

327 pages, hardcover, $22.00

Time magazine named Brian McLaren one of the "25 Most Influential Evangelicals in America" in 2005. McLaren, however, defies most stereotypes about evangelical Christians. In his latest book he presents a strong critique of the economic, military, social, and ecological policies of the United States, highlighting numerous ways that the message of Jesus provides a fundamental challenge to what he terms the "American Empire."

McLaren is a leader of the Emergent Church movement, a Christian renewal movement that focuses especially on reaching out to "seekers" who are not currently part of a church community. Among McLaren's earlier books, several of which achieved "best-seller" status, are A New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, and Reinventing Your Church. For over twenty years McLaren was pastor of Cedar Ridge Community Church in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area. He is currently engaged full-time in ministries of writing and...

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