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Changing the wind: McLaren at Church Unbound

MONTREAT, N.C. — Institutions and movements — secular and religious — need each other to retain their vitality, even as they frustrate each other, cutting-edge theologian Brain McLaren told several hundred Presbyterians gathered here in mid-August for "Church Unbound."

The "Church Unbound" conference, held every other year, is billed as "for lay leaders, clergy, commissioned lay pastors, seminary students, and all who wish to take part in fashioning a new vision for the church."

"Institutions are organizations which seek to conserve the gains made by past social movements," McLaren, a Washington, D.C.-area pastor told the conference, which is co-sponsored by the Montreat Conference Center, The Presbyterian...

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