Press Conference: Religious Progressives Left Behind - Pt. 3

Part 3 - Rev. Brian McLaren, ma best-selling author, a leader of the "emerging church" -- a Christian evangelical movement that seeks new ways to worship and understand the gospel in a postmodern era -- and Board Chairman for Sojourners/Call to Renewal.

Special Report Documents Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media

Conservative Religious Leaders Far Outnumber Progressive Leaders in Media Despite Views of Most Americans

Report available online at: http://www.mediamatters.org/LeftBehind

Washington, D.C. -- Media Matters for America today released "Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media," a special report documenting the disparity between media coverage of conservative and progressive religious leaders. Since the 2004 elections, there has been a dramatic increase in the coverage of religion in newspapers and television across the country. This increase has overwhelmingly focused on conservative religious figures as the definitive voice of religion at the expense of the vast majority of religious Americans.

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[ToBeSaltnLight]

This is hypocrisy. Progressives commit the same mistake that Conservatives do. They ignore or accept the immoral issues of their party and only advocate for the ones they deem as important. Their no better. Im starting to come to the conclusion that Religion and politics just don't mix.

[gracepreacher59]

YES!!!

[gromitwallaby]

I appreciate where Brian McLaren is coming from -- but I fear he sometimes conceeds way too much to post-modernism (itself and outdated concept!). Christians must do better, deeper, more informed thinking -- not simply resort to post-modern despair over truth, meaning, etc.

[PenSword35]

Well allison your truly showing your ignorance, bet you have a tattoo of Jesus on your ass huh???

[allison098]

Brian Mclaren is not a christian..why is he even talking...right, because we're too ignorant to realize he is a demonic hypocrite..idolizes tolerance...He does NOT love Jesus. He is Not anything like a christian except that he has stolen the name 'reverend'. ignore all of hie fakeness. ignore him completely unless he completely repents of his idolatry, his leading many people away from Jesus, and His huge and many lies in the name of the One True God.

[philllyyyyx16]

this whole thing is absurd.. who cares!!!!

[philllyyyyx16]

this whole thing is absurd.. who cares!!!!

[BecomePassersby]

This man is a breath of fresh air--in a church that has needed some open windows for a good, long time now.

[jebediahjames1]

just because he has a good heart does not necessarily mean he is correct. it is possable to love jesus and still be wrong.

[adbarnard]

Wait wait wait...Because Mclaren doesn't focus on hell means he's a bible rejector? Jesus preached caring for the poor, McLaren does, and sadly that's a change for Western Christianity. He also preaches love, so did Jesus, which is something more people need to pay attention to because the churched is marked by its harmful statements of the morality of homosexuality than it is by its unconditional love for our neighbors. Jesus talked about homosexuality not once. Jesus barely spoke of hell.