Brian McLaren Department

Five Core Values of Postmodernism
1.Postmodernism is skeptical of certainty.
2. Postmodernism is sensitive to context.
3. Postmodernism leans toward the humorous.
4. Postmodernism highly values subjective experience.
5. For postmoderns, togetherness is a rare, precious, and elusive experience.

Fifteen Realities for the Church (our title, but Rev. Mac's ideas)
1. We have to distinguish between genuine Christianity and our (individual and various culture-encoded) versions of it.
2. We need to see truth and goodness where they exist in postmodernism.
3. We need to magnify the importance of faith.
4. We ought to be more fair.
5. We need to be more experiential.
6. We need to address the postmoderns' existential predicament.
7. We need to listen to the postmoderns' stories.
8. We need to tell our stories.
9. We need to address issues we have never even thought about before.
10. We need to avoid coercion and pressure.
11. We need to see the postmoderns in here, out there, and everywhere.
12. We must rely more than ever on art, music, literature, and drama to communicate our message.
13. We must believe that the Holy Spirit is out there at work already.
14. We must become seekers again.
15. We must reassert the value of community and rekindle the experience of it.