Becoming Convergent

Over the last few days, Brian McLaren has been writing a bit of personal narrative on the Emergent USA blog site. While originally in 3 parts, the entire narrative has been made available in a single .pdf document. Click on the title for the whole article.

While I could fervently hope that people would take McLaren's word that this narrative faithfully addresses who he is and what motivates him, regrettably I doubt that it will really make much difference to those who have produced the caricatures that McLaren is trying to dispel.

I wonder whatever happened to the old puritan concept that as Christians we have the obligation to offer to others the "judgement of charity" -- the obligation to assess others' motives and person on the basis of the best possible assessment consistent with the facts? It's hard, I know. But what kind of love is it that doesn't do at least that? Surely not the love with which Jesus loved us, and with which He commanded us to love each other.