Quotes From "A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am A Missional Evangelical Post/Protestant Liberal/Conservative Mystical/Poetic Biblical Charismatic/Contemplative Emergent Unfinished Christian" By Brian D. McLaren

Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian...
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Accumulating orthodoxy makes it harder year-by-year to be a Christian than it was in Jesus' day. Brian D. McLaren
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We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp. Brian D. McLaren
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The Church has little idea how unorthodox it is at any given moment. If a church can't yet be perfectly orthodox, it can, with the Holy Spirit's help and by the grace of God, be perpetually reformable. Brian D. McLaren