Lighten Up: Love Your Enemies

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.  

The Cruciform Way of the Lamb September 9, 2014

In this video, Greg offers insight into how to read the Bible with the cross at the center of the revelation of God, thereby reframing how we interpret the violent and nationalistic passages of the Old Testament. Travis Reed from The Work of the People did a series of interviews with Greg a while ago and…

Eye for Eye: That Time Jesus Refuted An Old Testament Teaching October 29, 2014

One of the most surprising aspects of Jesus’ teaching is that, while he clearly shared his contemporaries’ view of the Old Testament as inspired by God, he was nevertheless not afraid of repudiating it when he felt led by his Father to do so (Jn. 8:28; 12:49-50; 14:31). For example, while the OT commands people…

Podcast: Did Jesus Descend Into Hell? June 13, 2018

Greg psychologizes Christ on the cross.  http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0343.mp3

Violence: What Did Jesus Do? February 1, 2013

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 that Jesus demonstrated another way. From the reflection: And though he had access to unlimited power to have himself released…

What Jesus Revealed About Being Human April 12, 2016

According to the creation story, when Adam and Eve ate the fruit, they essentially ceased being the wonderful, God-centered, God-dependent human beings the Creator intended them to be. They became less than fully human. Instead, they began using everything and everyone in the world as surrogate gods, trying to get from people, deeds, and things…