Posts

Lighten Up: The Devil Messin’ With Ya

Category: ,
Tags: , , , ,

Read Post

Leaving Westboro Baptist: Damsel, Arise

Category:
Tags: , , , ,

Burstein! via Compfight A reader pointed us to this fascinating article about the defection of Megan Phelps-Roper from the notorious Westboro Baptist Church (Thanks Rocky). She’s the granddaughter of the founder and preacher Fred Phelps….

Read Post

Sermon: Reframing the Sun

Category:
Tags: , , , , , , , ,

In our clip from this weeks sermon, Greg Boyd talks about how we respond to misfortunes and tragedies depends on how we frame them. In Colossians 3, Paul writes that Christ is all and is…

Read Post

Swords into Plowshares

Category:
Tags: , , , ,

Eneas De Troya via Compfight Kelley Nikondeha over at SheLoves wrote a penetrating essay on the work of peace and the prophet’s dreams of replacing the work of war into the work of feeding people. Peace…

Read Post

The Evangelical Mind

Category:
Tags: , , , , ,

Peter via Compfight As a follow-up to Rachel Held Evans’ thoughts yesterday on the Scandal of the Evangelical Heart, we thought we would post this reflection by Peter Enns about the Deeper Scandal of the…

Read Post

The Evangelical Heart

Category:
Tags: , , , ,

qthomasbower via Compfight Rachel Held Evans posted recently about The Scandal of the Evangelical Heart. Citing a comment by John Piper (“It’s right for God to slaughter women and children anytime he pleases. God gives life and…

Read Post

Lighten Up: When he thinks no one will see it…

Category: ,
Tags: , , ,

I guess Greg’s editor doesn’t follow his instructions very well.  :) Greg is a great theologian and apologist but he’s not the most brilliant when it comes to technology.

Read Post

Violence: What Did Jesus Do?

Category:
Tags: , , , , ,

Thomas Quine via Compfight Here’s a spot-on reflection on what Jesus taught us about responding to violence. Whatever you think about the justification of violence in particular situations, as Christians we simply cannot escape the fact…

Read Post

Henry’s Mom: Did God Author This?

Category:
Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Many of you were touched last month when we featured some reflections on little Henry’s death. Well, Henry’s mother Jess has started a blog to process through some of her thoughts and we wanted to…

Read Post

Free Will: How free will presupposes a great deal of determinism

Category:
Tags: , , ,
Topics: ,

This particular video was recorded last week when the forecast called for a high of -4F.  Greg makes light of the freezing conditions before he settles into the topic of how a mostly determined world…

Read Post

Participating in God’s Love

Category:
Tags: , , , ,
Topics: , ,

Greg took a slight detour from his reflections on free will in this video in order to talk about Jesus’ prayer in John 17. He discusses the idea that God desires the kind of unity among…

Read Post

Free Will: Are studies that demonstrate genetic determinism a threat to free will?

Category:
Tags: , , ,
Topics: ,

Greg shares his continuing thoughts on free will with a thought experiment (and a hand-drawn graph!) granting that we are largely determined by forces outside of our control. If we grant this presupposition, does that…

Read Post

Matter Matters

Category:
Tags: ,

Barbara Brown Taylor shares some thoughts on why our bodies matter to God. Thanks Rachel!

Read Post

Is God Good?

Category:
Tags: , , , ,

Andrew Stawarz via Compfight This reflection by David D. Flowers seemed like a good addition to Greg’s recent blogs on free will. Here David talks about the problem of evil and how it is that…

Read Post

Free Will: What is a free agent?

Category:
Tags: , , , ,
Topics:

What does it really mean to be a free agent? In this reflection, Greg offers some thoughts on free agents and how it can be that they are not exhaustively determined.

Read Post

Free Will: What about “natural” evil? Was Hurricane Sandy a Free Agent?

Category:
Tags: , , , , ,
Topics: , ,

What about natural evil? How does free will help to make sense of this? Greg reflects on the origins of sickness, natural disaster, animal suffering and so on. Hope you’re enjoying the series so far….

Read Post

Free Will: The origin of evil

Category:
Tags: , , , , ,
Topics: ,

In this continuing series on free will, Greg discusses how evil can only be accounted for if we acknowledge free will. This is especially true if you believe that God is good.

Read Post

Free Will: What does Quantum Theory suggest?

Category:
Tags: , , , ,
Topics: ,

Bet you didn’t think we’d be going here. Greg discusses how quantum theory supports the idea of free will.

Read Post

Free Will: An Aesthetic Model

Category:
Tags: , , , , ,
Topics: ,

Greg continues his thoughts on free will by offering an aesthetic model for free will. This one gets pretty philosophical, but it’s worth toughing it out.

Read Post

Free Will: Is it a coherent concept?

Category:
Tags: , , , ,
Topics: ,

Greg is going to be spending the next several blogs talking about the idea of free will. In this first reflection, he discusses whether it is coherent to speak of a decision that is not…

Read Post
Search Tips

Simple Search

Detailed Search

  • Category

  • Filter by Tag:

  • Show Only Posts Related to Verse:

  • Filter by Topic:

  • Clear all filters