Brian McLaren’s Response to the President’s Remarks
Brian McLaren’s blog posts and books give casual readers (like myself) a sense that he is evolving: religiously, theologically, politically, and as a person. It is a good thing. I wonder how many of the “emergent” followers and second generation leaders would consider McLaren emergent today? That is another subject for another day. Here are a few paragraphs of his initial response to President Obama’s oval office chat (that I have not watch in its entirety yet) as McLaren posted to God’s Politics on Sojourners. Click the title to read his entire post.
My Initial Response to President Obama’s Speech
Brian McLaren | 6/16/2010 | God’s PoliticsI was glad the president emphasized the need to break our addiction to oil in his speech last night, and I thought he did a good job of demonstrating commitment to the people of the Gulf region. But if President Obama doesn’t specify the way forward by offering a legislative path, who will? Congress? Politicians whose re-election campaigns are heavily subsidized by the fossil fuel industries and who depend on voting blocs mis-educated by corporate media?
I hope that last night was simply the opening volley in what will be a focused, determined, well-planned, energetic agenda to make a new clean and sustainable economy the legacy not only of the president, but of the government, and not only of the government, but of our generation as a whole.
If political, economic, social, and faith community leaders start articulating a bold vision for a new economy and start demonstrating determined leadership in achieving it, I think they’ll find growing numbers of us are fired up and ready to go.