Convicted in Advent! A Static Belief or Dynamic...?

From Brian D. McLaren (see his facebook note)...

The religion that was ostensibly founded by a nonviolent man of peace had now embraced the very violence he prohibited. The religion that grew in response to a man who was tortured and killed by the Roman Empire was now torturing and killing others in league with that empire. Dynamic faith that moves mountains was out; static belief that burns or banishes heretics was in. Catalytic faith as an agent of social transformation was out; codified belief as a tool of social control was in. And that kind of belief has stayed “in” ever since. (12)
From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)