Lighten Up: Loving Your Political Enemies

Dear Greg: How Do You Handle Assumptions People Make About You When They Learn You Are a Christian? June 24, 2018

Greg talks about demonstrating counter-examples in a world overflowing with assumptions and prejudices.  http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0350.mp3

Lighten Up: Underestimated June 21, 2013

Frank Viola is at it again. He seems pretty confident that when he and I debate the Open Future this fall that he’ll smear me. That’s his prediction, anyway. The think is, I’ve been underestimated before. It happens all the time. People think I’m this goof who doesn’t know what he’s talking about. That’s OK…

Are you a pietist? January 9, 2008

Question: Soon after the publication of your book The Myth of a Christian Nation, I heard Chuck Colson charge you with being a “pietist.” Since then, others have repeated the charge. They all claim you advocate a Gospel that focuses on individual salvation but leaves social issues for government to address. Are you a pietist?…

Lighten Up: Square Peg, Round Hole Theology June 6, 2014

This comic was featured in The Bohemian Bowmans. If you don’t follow them, you probably should check them out. They’re great.  

“I’m Angry, Too” September 20, 2012

A reader (thanks, Jen!) sent us this blog post by Rachel Pieh Jones, an ex-pat from Minnesota living in Djibouti. She has some incredibly insightful and sad thoughts about the hateful responses to the recent protests and threats going on in other countries (and our own). We hope that as Christians we can contribute thoughtful…

Christians & Politics: Where Do You Stand? October 25, 2016

In the 1980’s, Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson were leaders in the Moral Majority, a conservative evangelical social and political movement that attempted to rally “moral” people to change public policy. The movement died out in the 1990s. In 1999, Thomas and Dobson wrote a book entitled Blinded by Might in which they declare that…