“Faith after Doubt” by Brian McLaren — a Nomad Podcast Interview with Brian McLaren and Book Notes by Sam Radford
I’ve been reading books by Brian McLaren for coming up to twenty years. He is someone whose faith journey is several steps ahead of mine and, as such, he’s been a mentor from afar to me.
His latest book, Faith after Doubt, is my favourite of his books to date.
=It captures the journey I’ve been on for the last twenty years as well as providing vision and encouragement for the years ahead.
The book offers a map for where I’ve come from. He shares language and frameworks that give definition to the steps I’ve been taking these last two decades.
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Please walk us through the four stages of faith and doubt as you outline them in the book, starting with Stage 1.
I think we are all inducted into Stage 1, or Simplicity, in our childhood. This is the stage of simple dualisms: us/them, in/out, right/wrong, strange/familiar, safe/dangerous. Because we’re children and there’s a lot we don’t know, we need authority figures to tell us what’s safe. This is a natural and healthy stage for us as children.