Learning How to See with Brian McLaren Re-Consecrate Everything (feat. Barbara Brown Taylor)
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Mar 3, 2023 
Barbara Brown Taylor returns for a conversation with Brian McLaren about reconsecrating our lives spiritually and ecologically. They discuss leaving religion, finding harmony, understanding beliefs and passions, recycling biblical stories, and the importance of reconsecrating everything as holy and spiritual.
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House Blessings For Inclusion
- Taylor describes blessing all rooms in homes, including bedrooms and bathrooms, to honor relationships excluded by church norms.
- This repurposed sacramental act subtly blessed gay and lesbian couples before official church rites existed.
Repurposing Harmful Doctrines
- Traditional doctrines like omnipotence and substitutionary atonement can harm when taken as controlling narratives.
- Taylor and McLaren propose repurposing these doctrines toward a God who suffers with rather than controls.
Deconstruction As Love
- Deconstruction can be an act of love: tell the story behind a doctrine to understand its origin and limits.
- Revealing a doctrine's history often reduces its excessive power without discarding it entirely.