--- title: Brian D. McLaren | TIME description: McLaren is a pastor, best-selling author, speaker, activist, networker and Auburn Senior Fellow; his most recent book is The Great Spiritual Migration. canonical: https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Brian D. McLaren ## Brian D. McLaren _McLaren is a pastor, best-selling author, speaker, activist, networker and Auburn Senior Fellow; his most recent book is_ [The Great Spiritual Migration](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1601427913/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fsp%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=timecom-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1601427913&linkId=9462ec5445e966e5bbf7ecfd7160af45)_._ ## Brian D. McLaren *  Aug 25, 2017 ### [The 'Alt-Right' Has Created Alt-Christianity](https://time.com/4915161/charlottesville-alt-right-alt-christianity/) "If good religion slumbers and stagnates, bad religion is the alternative" [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/","name":"Brian D. McLaren"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/"},"name":"Brian D. McLaren","jobTitle":null,"description":"McLaren is a pastor, best-selling author, speaker, activist, networker and Auburn Senior Fellow; his most recent book is The Great Spiritual Migration.","url":"https://time.com/author/brian-d-mclaren/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```