The winds of reconciliation are blowing through the stratum of Christendom of late.
First, Steve “Shake Me to Wake Me” Camp made a heartfelt apology to long-time nemesis and current All-American Calvinist poster boy Mark Driscoll.
Then, in an equally heartfelt – though expletive peppered – post, Chief Executive Senior Pastor of New Spring Church, Perry Noble, admits that he actually likes John Piper.
Now, it’s being reported that John MacArthur and Brian McLaren will co-author a book together to be released on the new Tony Jones/Emergent Village approved Baker imprint Fundamergent.
“With the winds of reconciliation blowing so hard,” MacArthur said when reached at his home this afternoon, “I felt led to approach Brian in a spirit of correction significantly less stringent than I had previously experienced. There was a moment there, as we were posing for our picture together, that I almost caught myself saying – out loud – that he might be a Christian, but cooler heads prevailed.”
In response, McLaren was equally effusive in his praise of MacArthur. “John is not such a bad guy,” McLaren said, “He and his kind really do have something to add to the conversation, even if it is just to tell the rest of us how wrong we are.”
The book, currently being written with a working title of “The War on Velvet Heterodoxy”, will feature alternating chapters written by McLaren and MacArthur, with McLaren writing first and then MacArthur picking apart verb tenses and voice intonations, and keeping and eye on McLaren’s particular word order.
The book is slated for release April 1, 2010.
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