Brian Mclaren on if he is liberal, published in a  USAtoday article not to long ago.

Q: You reject the word liberal to describe yourself.

A: What do you mean by the term? If liberal means you believe … you should help the poor, and your bias should be toward peacemaking rather than war-making, then I’m a liberal. But if liberal means that government can solve all of our problems and that secularism is better than faith, and that it doesn’t matter what you do in your personal life and that morality is up for grabs, then I’m not a liberal. And I could say the same thing about conservative.

and a couple other questions from the same interview:

Q: On the theology behind the emerging church, you reject the idea that there’s an absolute truth. So what boundaries are there on theology that churches are teaching? Can any church just call itself an emerging church?

A: Obviously that’s a challenge. The flip side of that question is look at the Catholic Church: For all of its orthodoxy, it could have bishops covering up for molesting priests. And evangelicals, for all their claims of orthodoxy, can be barbaric to gay people and can blindly support a rush to war in Iraq and can be, as we speak, fomenting for war with Iran. … Obviously, I have a lot of critics and they often say, ‘You’re wanting to water down the Gospel to accommodate to post-modernity.’ I say, ‘No, I really don’t want to do that. But what I do want to do is acknowledge first the ways we’ve already watered down the Gospel to accommodate modernity.’ … I think the naivetDe of some of those critics is that they’re starting with a pure pristine understanding of the Gospel. It seems to me we’re all in danger of screwing up.

Q: Can you talk about where the emerging movement is now?

A: The first of these sort of emerging gatherings that I was ever involved with was 10 years ago and we weren’t even using the word emerging yet. … None of us ever guessed in our wildest dreams that we were onto something that would become a big deal. We were trying to survive really. Ten years ago, I was a 42-year-old pastor who loved God, but was having deep questions about the kind of standard evangelical way of being a Christian I’d been devoted to. And I was so relieved to find that other people were asking the same questions. … There are still people who are just entering into the conversation at that level, so there are people who, for them this is all new.