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Greg and Paul Tag Team to Answer Your Questions
Greg Boyd and Paul Eddy answered questions submitted from Woodland Hills Church and podcasters during all three services this last Saturday and Sunday. They covered a wide range of topics so, chances are, you’ll find…
Why Racial Reconciliation Matters
Category: General
Tags: Racial Reconciliation
Rachel Held Evans invited Grace Biskie to reflect on racial reconciliation on her blog this week. Grace’s perspective is an important one to hear. Check out Church Stories: A Plea to Engage in Racial Reconciliation….
A Cross-Centered Evaluation of Responses to Tragedy
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Free Will, Predestination, Problem of Evil, Responding to Calvinism
I’d like to pick up where I left off on my previous post about Draper’s article entitled “Aurora shooting inspires various perspectives on God and belief.” Toward the end of his article, Draper reports on an…
Tragedy Strikes and Coherence Goes Out the Window
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Problem of Evil, Responding to Calvinism, Theology
I encourage you to read Aurora shooting inspires various perspectives on God and belief, written by Electa Draper and published on the front page of the Denver Post Monday. The article shows how differently believers…
You’re Invited!
Category: General
Greg will be speaking at Mars Hill in Michigan on Sunday, August 26th if you’d like to come and hear him. Join us if you can!
True Serenity
Andrew Sullivan pointed readers today to this meditation on two sources of spiritual serenity. Rather than relying on the absence of conflict or our own privilege, the writer asks us to go deeper to the…
Lighten Up: When God Drags Us
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Lighten Up
How often do you think God drags you? We suspect, out of love, he does this quite a bit.
From the Heart: Letters of Thanks
Category: General
Tags: From the Heart, Testimonies
Periodically we’d like to post testimonies that come to us via reader emails. We’re so grateful that this ministry has a real life impact on so many, and getting these letters makes it all worthwhile….
Rethinking Our View of Faith
Category: General
Tags: Faith, ReKnew
The second conviction of the “ReKnew Manifesto” is that we need to rethink what it means to have faith. It’s my impression that many, if not most, Evangelical Christians associate their assurance that they’re “saved”…
Lighten Up: Election Season Blues
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Humor, Lighten Up, Politics
It’s a little sad (but still pretty funny) that there are actual campaign posters similar to this one. The next time you get fed up or discouraged with all the over-the-top election ads, you might…
Religion and Politics in Israel
Category: General
Tags: Politics
This article, sent to us last week from a blog reader (thanks Beth!), discusses the problems that were created when Israel fused religion with politics. We aren’t endorsing all of the assumptions of the author, but it’s…
This Week’s Sermon: Sledge Hammer Faith
Category: General
Tags: Faith, Religious Idolatry
Greg is feverishly working on a new book on faith and doubt and he decided to preach on this topic for a couple of weeks. He’s also been dealing with this topic on the blog…
Biblical Versus Magical Faith: Reflections on the ReKnew Manifesto
Category: General
Tags: Faith, ReKnew
The second core conviction of the “ReKnew Manifesto” is that we believe it is time for the Church to re-think common assumptions about faith. Faith is at the heart of what it means to follow…
Quotes to Chew On: Confronting Non-Christians
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Evangelism
“When Christians confront people on the basis of presuppositions not shared by the people they confront, they come across as rude (hence unloving, I Cor. 13:4-5) and usually render the gospel less credible to the…
The Deadly Nature of Religious Idolatry
Category: General
Tags: ReKnew, Religious Idolatry
I’m in the process of fleshing out the core convictions of ReKnew as I laid them out in the “ReKnew Manifesto.” Our first core conviction concerns where we are to get our LIFE from, so in…
Quotes to Chew On: The Church vs. Religion
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Church, Quotes, Religious Idolatry
“It’s time for the Church to free itself from the religious holiness of the Pharisees and begin to manifest the holiness of the Kingdom. It’s time for us to realize that our calling is to…
From the Sermon Archives: Stick & String
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
Since Greg didn’t preach this last Sunday, we thought we would feature something special from the Woodland Hills archives. God’s will for us is first and foremost about who we are and not what we do….
Shouldn’t preachers rally Christians to fight political injustice?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Kingdom Living, Politics, Social Issues
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: My pastor has publicly supported your book The Myth of a Christian Nation. But he’s recently called on the church to take a stand against the injustice of our local government cutting funding for inner…
Quotes to Chew On: The Cross and God’s Love
Category: General
Tags: Books, Cruciform Theology
“The cross is the central way Christ images God. Christ was not an innocent third party who was punished against his will to appease the Father’s wrath. Christ is himself God, and he voluntarily took…