Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World

When four religious leaders walk across the road, it's not the beginning of a joke. It's the start of one of the most important conversations in today's world.

Can you be a committed Christian without having to condemn or convert people of other faiths? Is it possible to affirm other religious traditions without watering down your own?

In his most important book yet, widely acclaimed author and speaker Brian McLaren proposes a new faith alternative, one built on "benevolence and solidarity rather than rivalry and hostility." This way of being Christian is strong but doesn't strong-arm anyone, going beyond mere tolerance to vigorous hospitality toward, interest in, and collaboration with the other.

Blending history, narrative, and brilliant insight, McLaren shows readers step-by-step how to reclaim this strong-benevolent faith, challenging us to stop creating barriers in the name of God and learn how affirming other religions can strengthen our commitment to our own. And in doing so, he invites Christians to become more Christ-like than ever before.

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• A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
• We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation
• The Great Spiritual Migration: How the World's Largest Religion Is Seeking a Better Way to Be Christian
• Ishmael Instructs Isaac: An Introduction to the Qur'an for Bible Readers (Connections)
• My Neighbor's Faith: Stories of Interreligious Encounter, Growth, and Tran
• A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, ... emergent, unfinished Christian (emergentYS)
• Women in Christian Traditions (Women in Religions)
• On Being a Muslim: Finding a Religious Path in the World Today (Islamic Studies)
• Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words