Brian McLaren - A New Kind of Christian

Brian McLaren's book 'A New Kind of Christian' (ISBN:078795599X) is still the best book out there that I have read on the emerging church, which is kind of unfortunate in one way. It is the account of a mainline preacher's disatisfaction with his ministry, and his encounter with another desert wanderer. I haven't read the sequal, 'The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian' but will be keeping an eye out for it. Anyone already read it ?

It is unfortunate in that this emerging church is so nebulous that a fictional account - a story, a tale, a fable - is the best description out there. In another way, maybe it is appropriate that the best book out there is just a story. After all, the Bible itself is full of the same...