![]() ![]() ![]() He is a popular conference speaker and a frequent guest lecturer for denominational and ecumenical leadership gatherings - across the US and Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. During that time, Cedar Ridge earned a reputation as a leader among emerging missional congregations.īrian has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid 1980s, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. He left higher education in 1986 to serve as the church's founding pastor and served in that capacity until 2006. In 2004, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Degree (honoris causa) from Carey Theological Seminary in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and in 2010, he received a second honorary doctorate, this one from Virginia Theological Seminary (Episcopal).įrom 1978 to 1986, McLaren taught college English, and in 1982, he helped form Cedar Ridge Community Church, an innovative, nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington region (). ![]() His academic interests included Medieval drama, Romantic poets, modern philosophical literature, and the novels of Dr. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is an ecumenical global networker among innovative Christian leaders.īorn in 1956, he graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in English (BA, summa cum laude, 1978, and MA, in 1981). McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. ![]()
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