Lighten Up: Jesus VS The World

Lighten Up: My Favorite! December 19, 2014

He always gives the best gifts.

Creating God in Our Own Image August 10, 2015

How have we created God in our own image? In this short video produced by The Work of the People, Greg reflects on various ways that humans typically think about God in terms of power, and how Jesus reframes the nature of power. The Christian revelation of God is the opposite of what we most often imagine…

What is the Kingdom of God (Part 1) June 15, 2015

We all know what the Kingdom of God is, right? But this is precisely the problem. Since we are all to a large extent products of our culture, what seems obviously true and right to us will be at least influenced, if not determined, by what seems obviously true and right to our culture. This,…

Would God Kill a Baby To Teach Parents a Lesson? October 9, 2012

Question: We have a group of guys that are going through your book “Is God to Blame” and a question came up that I would be curious how you would look at it. In the beginning of the book you ask the question “do you really think that God kills babies to teach parents a lesson?”…

Radical is in the Eye of the Beholder October 21, 2013

Josias Hansen is a Brazilian-born, Charismatic Mennonite student at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Together with Third Way Church, Josias enjoys experimenting with what it looks like to take Jesus seriously as a jolly community of kingdom disciples.  Was Jesus a radical? Did he do and teach radical things? What if I were to tell…

Lighten Up: Existential French Cat January 4, 2013

Greg used to be into the existentialists quite a bit. Sartre and Camus would love this cat. (Thanks to Rachel Held Evans for the heads-up.)