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Episode 174: Brian McLaren - The Four Stages of Faith

The Bible For Normal People

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Do Gods Really Have Blue Skin?

Mother's therapy: How do you navigate the two extremes of religious belief? This is a problem across religious traditions. In hindu ichonography, gods are always pictured with the color blue. They have blue skini probably shouldn't say they're always pictured, but typically pictured. And in that sense, the child would be invited to become part of the interpretive community. He'd be invited to have opinion of his own and taught to respect the opinions of others. The jewish community does this better than anybody else at this point in history.

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