Greg Boyd
Compassionate Dominion and Factory Farms
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
“The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but, ‘Can they suffer?’” -Jeremy Bentham “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he…
The First Fruit of the Coming Non-Violent Creation
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
“A society’s moral progress is best judged by its treatment of animals.” – Gandhi More and more people are asking me the question, “Why are you a vegetarian?” So I’ve decided to write a couple…
Why I’m a Vegetarian
Category: General
Topics: Creation Care
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. Pythagoras (6th century BC) I used to be…
A Bono Looking Church?
Category: General
Hello blogg’n buds, Well, I got a little flack from a few of you for claiming that the Product (RED) Campaign is a powerful Kingdom movement. Several wondered how something intertwined with consumerism could be…
Be Bono-fide
Category: General
Thank you Ms. Paparazzi on that delightful expose of my Bono-fide Icee-drinking fun night out with friends. We really did have fun seeing U2 3D. I’m frankly not crazy about their music (I’m more of…
cvm paparazzi (marcia) at work
Category: General
Greg posted that the launch date for the new CVM site has been delayed a couple months. I thought (as Greg’s “lens truth master”) I’d give you insight into the delay and what Greg’s been…
Where’s the new Christus Victor website?
Category: General
Some time ago I mentioned that we were going to launch our new, improved, super easy and super informative website “very soon.” “Soon” has come and gone, so where’s the new site? May I remind…
Where do you find your security?
Category: General
In Matthew 6:24-34 Jesus taught us it’s impossible to serve two masters. He illustrates this by saying we “cannot serve both God and money.” But he could just as easily have said we “cannot serve…
Will people get married in heaven?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Afterlife, Heaven and Hell, Q&A
Topics: End Times
Question: I lead a Bible study group for teenagers. One recently asked a question: “Will there be marriage in Heaven? And if not, why? God created marriage when He created the perfect earth, so why…
Satan, Government and Christian Anarchy
Category: General
Inspired by my reading of Jacque Ellul, I’ve been talking about Christian Anarchy the last couple posts. I want to remind folks that “anarchy” used in this way does not denote chaos. It rather means…
Does religious faith make someone a better politician?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Politics, Q&A, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: A recent poll showed that a majority of Americans agreed with the statement: “Religious faith makes someone a better politician.” In fact, a majority said they would never vote for a candidate who had…
Should churches have armed security guards?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Christian Life, Church, Peacemaking, Q&A, Social Issues, Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence, Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: Recently (December, 2007) a security guard at New Life Church in Colorado Springs shot and apparently killed a man who was shooting people in the church parking lot. The pastor (Brady Boyd) hailed her…
The Insignificance of Governments and Armies
Category: General
Isaiah 40:15,17 Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust… All the…
What makes the claim that Jesus rose from the dead unique?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Jesus, Q&A
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
Question: What makes the story of Jesus’ resurrection different from other pagan resurrection stories, such as those surrounding the Egyptian god Osiris? Answer: In Lord or Legend? (and more academically, The Jesus Legend), Paul Eddy…
How can you believe Matthew’s report about the Jewish cover up of the resurrection?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Jesus, Q&A
Topics: Biblical Reliability
Question: In Matthew it’s reported that Jewish authorities tried to cover up the resurrection of Jesus by saying the disciples stole the body while the guards were sleeping. I don’t buy it. How would Matthew…
The Lord of Legend and Love
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Faith
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
However secularized a person may be, if they have any sense at all that life has a meaning, they know it must have something to do with love. Indeed, one could argue that all of…
Jesus: True Myth and True History
Category: Essays
Tags: Apologetics, Essay, Jesus
Topics: Jesus: Lord or Legend
Though the Jesus story gives us every reason to believe it is substantially rooted in history, it has a curious, and fascinating, relationship with myth and legend. The story of God coming to earth, being…
Why do you have such a pessimistic view of government?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Politics, Q&A, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: I’m a Christian and serve as a servant in government and I find your book The Myth of a Christian Nation, as well as some of your sermons on Christians and politics, highly offensive….
God, Government and Christian Anarchy
Category: General
Hello blogging buds. The last two days I’ve been reading Ellul’s The Presence of the Kingdom. Fantastic book — though many readers will find his somewhat elusive “dialectical” style challenging (Ellul writes, and thinks, in…
The Bible, Government and Christian Anarchy
Category: Essays
Tags: Essay, Kingdom Living, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
This “essay” contains my informal reflections on biblical texts that I believe support what some call “Christian Anarchy.” Consider it a very rough draft of a future project. I’ll argue that Kingdom people are called…