Authors: Brian D. McLaren

About this author’s books

These books offer a reflective and steady reading experience centered on personal and spiritual exploration. They unfold through thoughtful guidance and meditative inquiry, often inviting readers to reconsider beliefs and practices with openness and care. The tone is contemplative, encouraging gradual insight rather than dramatic revelation.

Common threads

  • Progress through gentle questioning and thematic reflection rather than fast-paced action
  • Focus on inner transformation and spiritual growth as ongoing processes
  • Use personal stories, meditations, or guided exercises to deepen engagement
  • Often address doubt, change, and reorientation within faith or values
  • Resolutions tend to emphasize openness and continued exploration over definitive answers

Good fit if you like

  • Reading that invites reflection and gradual personal insight
  • Exploring spiritual or philosophical questions without pressure for quick conclusions
  • Books that combine practical guidance with thoughtful narrative
  • Engagement with themes of doubt, faith, and transformation in a respectful tone
  • Works that balance personal experience with broader spiritual ideas

Not ideal if…

  • You prefer fast-moving plots or high-tension conflict
  • You look for clear-cut resolutions or definitive doctrinal statements
  • You expect a primarily entertainment-driven reading experience

Generated from the books currently available in this catalog.

  • A Generous Orthodoxy 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 — Brian D. McLaren

    A Generous Orthodoxy 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 — Brian D. McLaren

  • The Last Word and the Word after That A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity — Brian D. McLaren

    The Last Word and the Word after That A Tale of Faith, Doubt, and a New Kind of Christianity — Brian D. McLaren

  • Seeking Aliveness Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practice the Christian Faith — Brian D. McLaren

    Seeking Aliveness Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practice the Christian Faith — Brian D. McLaren

  • We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

    We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

  • We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

    We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

  • Life After Doom — Brian D. McLaren

    Life After Doom — Brian D. McLaren

  • Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World — Brian D. McLaren

    Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the Road? Christian Identity in a Multi-faith World — Brian D. McLaren

  • Seeking Aliveness Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practise the Christian Faith — Brian D. Mclaren

    Seeking Aliveness Daily Reflections on a New Way to Experience and Practise the Christian Faith — Brian D. Mclaren

  • The Church on the Other Side Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix — Brian D. McLaren

    The Church on the Other Side Doing Ministry in the Postmodern Matrix — Brian D. McLaren

  • Naked Spirituality A Life with God in 12 Simple Words — Brian D. McLaren

    Naked Spirituality A Life with God in 12 Simple Words — Brian D. McLaren

  • Naked Spirituality A Life with God in 12 Simple Words — Brian D. McLaren

    Naked Spirituality A Life with God in 12 Simple Words — Brian D. McLaren

  • A New Kind of Christianity Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith — Brian D. McLaren

    A New Kind of Christianity Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith — Brian D. McLaren

  • A New Kind of Christianity Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith — Brian D. McLaren

    A New Kind of Christianity Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith — Brian D. McLaren

  • The Galapagos Islands A Spiritual Journey — Brian D. McLaren

    The Galapagos Islands A Spiritual Journey — Brian D. McLaren

  • Do I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned — Brian D. McLaren

    Do I Stay Christian? A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned — Brian D. McLaren

  • Cory and the Seventh Story — Brian D. Mclaren

    Cory and the Seventh Story — Brian D. Mclaren

  • We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

    We Make the Road by Walking A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation — Brian D. McLaren

  • Faith After Doubt Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It — Brian D. McLaren

    Faith After Doubt Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It — Brian D. McLaren

  • Life After Doom Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart — Brian D. McLaren

    Life After Doom Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart — Brian D. McLaren