A minister who has been a frequent radio, TV, and college guest speaker recounts his zealous early life pursuit of the Christian life and his experiences of emptiness and spiritual detachment, tracing his quest to connect with a God he perceived as distant.

Shows readers that the greatest desire of every person is the desire for redemption in his or her life. This work reveals how the inability to find redemption leads to chaotic relationships, self-hatred, the accumulation of meaningless material possessions, and a lack of inner peace.

Subtitled: 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.

A tale with off-beat characters and strange locales from the Galapagos Islands to the Baltimore suburbs. This book presents characters who take on challenging themes, including evolution, death, evangelism, and the meaning of life.

A fictional tale that offers spiritual renewal for those burned out on church. After many years as a successful pastor, Brian McLaren has found - as more and more Christians are finding - that neither the conservative evangelical nor the liberal mainline stream of Christianity describes his own developing faith.