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Listening with Humility and Love
Category: General
Tags: Humility, Listening, Robert Martin
Bindaas Madhavi via Compfight Robert Martin over at Abnormal Anabaptist published an article today concerning the recent post by the Gospel Coalition. The Gospel Coalition seems to be humbly acknowledging that maybe they have something…
A Review of a Review of Benefit of the Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Book Reviews, Greg Boyd, Historical Criticism, Inerrancy, Inspiration, Reviews
I’d like to offer a brief response to a curious on-line review of Benefit of the Doubt, published on thechristians.com. It’s titled, Which came first, Jesus or the Bible? A clever heretic draws a false…
The Bible Is Insufficient
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Community, Jesus, Kurt Johnson, Scripture
Patrick Feller via Compfight Kurt Johnson wrote a piece a few days ago on the proper place of Scripture in the life of a believer. He reflects on the fact that we have elevated the…
Reflecting on the Conference and Cynicism
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Connecting, Cynicism, David Flowers, Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Fellowship, Hope, Truth, Viva la Revolution!
We had such a great time this weekend at the Faith, Doubt & the Idol of Certainty conference. People came from all over the United States and it was good to get a chance to…
Lighten Up: The Seeds of Doubt
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Doubt, Fatalism, Humor, Lighten Up
Sometimes you have to follow where doubt leads you.
Gungor and Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Gungor
Gungor is working through the issue of doubt on their new album. (Thanks Orlando for the heads-up.) We’re busily getting ready for the Faith, Doubt & the Idol of Certainty conference tomorrow. It’s not too…
Sermon Clip: Creation Week 1
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Bible, Bible Interpretation, Creation, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
The story of creation has interesting details. But getting lost in those details can make us miss the big picture. In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd talks about the importance of properly interpreting the…
Quotes to Chew On: Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Doubt, Mother Teresa, Quotes
Gisela Giardino via Compfight Marcus Goodyear wrote an article back in 2011 reflecting on Mother Teresa’s experience of doubt. Many now know that although Mother Teresa worked tirelessly in the slums of Calcutta, she struggled…
The God Who Embraces Our Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Doubt, Faith, God, Honesty, Jesus, The American Jesus, Upside-Down Kingdom, Zack Hunt
Lawrence OP via Compfight Zack Hunt over at The American Jesus posted some of his thoughts on doubt, and it seemed fitting on this week before the Doubt, Faith & the Idol of Certainty conference…
Dallas Willard on Doubt and Belief
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Dallas Willard, Doubt, Fellowship
http://youtu.be/xiOIyP4VHOk One of our Facebook friends pointed out this video to us (Thanks Lukasz!) The comments in this interview on the benefits of fellowship when it comes to doubt and belief are excellent. We’re really…
Sermon Clip: His Song In Our Hearts
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Sermons, Worship
Worship is important. However, worship isn’t just about singing. In this sermon clip, Greg introduces the idea of worship and how it’s more than just a sing-along. In the full sermon, Greg shows how worship…
Lighten Up: He Forgives You…
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Forgiveness, Humor, Lighten Up
We don’t really think Jesus does this, but it sure would be understandable sometimes. Right?
An Update and an Opportunity
Category: General
Tags: Frank Viola, Friendly Disagreements, Kingdom Revolution, Leaders
Thomas Hawk via Compfight All around the globe we are witnessing more and more people catching the vision of a God and a kingdom that look like the crucified Christ. One of the goals of…
Another Great Reason to Join Us for the ReKnew Conference: NDY
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, Faith, Greg Boyd, NDY
As if you needed another reason to join us for Faith, Doubt and the Idol of Certainty, I’ll tell you that Greg’s band NDY is playing a free concert at 8:15pm at Woodland Hills Church…
Rachel Held Evans Interviews Greg on Benefit of the Doubt
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Cruciform Theology, Doubt, Faith, Non-Violence, Rachel Held Evans
We shared an interview that Frank Viola did with Greg yesterday, and we’re thrilled to share an interview that Rachel Held Evans posted today. Rachel is very familiar with the resistance and criticism that comes…
Benefit of the Doubt Is Here!
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Cruciform Theology, Doubt, Faith, Frank Viola, Greg Boyd, Interview, Jesus
Benefit of the Doubt is finally here and you should definitely get yourself a copy! Frank Viola interviewed Greg about the book recently and you can read it over on Frank’s blog Beyond Evangelical. In fact,…
Jessica Kelley: Triumph by Testimony
Category: General
Tags: Death, Henry, Jessica Kelley, Picture of God, Prayer, Sermons, Testimonies, Woodland Hills Church
Jessica Kelley is a good friend of ReKnew, and she preached this last weekend at Woodland Hills Church. Normally we only post clips of sermons, but we wanted to post the full sermon on this…
Responding to Critics of a Pacifist View of the Syrian Crisis-Part 2
Category: Essays
Tags: Aric Clark, Current Events, Essay, Friendly Disagreements, Government, Kingdom Living, Non-Violence, Peace, War
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
United Nations Photo via Compfight Yesterday I posted a response to Tyler Tully’s criticism of some of my thoughts on the Syrian crisis. The second blog I’d like to review is Two Friars and a…
Responding to Critics On A Pacifist View of the Syrian Crisis
Category: Essays
Tags: Current Events, Essay, Friendly Disagreements, Non-Violence, Pacifism, Politics, Tyler Tully, Wrath
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
On September 3rd, I wrote a post entitled What I – a Pacifist – Would Say to Obama About the Syrian Crisis in response to a number of questions I was getting, and judging from the…