Greg Boyd
Podcast: If Paul Couldn’t Get HIS Thorn Removed, Why Should We Think OUR Prayers for Healing Will Be Answered?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Prayer
Greg considers why Paul was unable to get his thorn removed, and argues that we should not universalize Paul’s situation to all of ours. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0182.mp3
Podcast: If Jesus Fully Reveals God, Do We Need the Old Testament?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Old Testament
Greg looks at the value and the role of the Old Testament in light of Jesus’ full revelation of God on the cross. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0181.mp3
Podcast: Did Jesus Experience Genuine God-Forsakenness? (parts 1 and 2)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Abandonment, Crucifixion, Trinity
Greg discusses Jesus’ experience of God-Forsakenness, and looks at possible implications for the perfection of the trinity. Part One: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0178.mp3 Part Two: http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0179.mp3
Podcast: Are Jews Unconditionally Preserved in God’s Covenant?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers Romans 9-13 and discusses what it means to be a Jew and what it means to be a part of the body of Christ. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0176.mp3
God’s Non-Violent Ideal in the OT
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Nationalism, Non-Violence
Topics: Enemy-Loving Non-Violence
While God condescended to working within the violent-prone, fallen framework of his people in the Old Testament—as I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God—the OT is also full of references to how God worked…
Podcast: Was God the Father Lonely Before Having a Son?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg discusses the role of God’s son and what the trinity was like before the incarnation. That is, was God the father lonely before the arrival of his son? If Jesus is literally the son…
Podcast: Did God (an Angel of the Lord) Strike Herod Down?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Angels
Greg considers the capabilities and liberties of angels and demons. Laziness and failure at all levels of the cosmos! http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0175.mp3
Reading the Bible “by Faith”
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Faith
The cruciform approach to reading the Bible—and specifically the culturally-conditioned and sin-stained portraits of God—requires faith on the part of the reader, which I argue in Crucifixion of the Warrior God. On one level we…
Podcast: What is Violence?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Non-Violence, Violence
Greg takes a closer look at what violence is. Then he bullies Dan. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0174.mp3
How the Bible is Trustworthy
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Inspiration
All of God’s communication in the Scriptures are covenantal in nature. Expressing his covenantal love and faithfulness, God stoops to “breath” Scripture as a means of bearing witness to his covenant relationship with Israel, and…
Podcast: What Does it Mean to Be IN Christ?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Body of Christ, Life in Christ
Greg considers what it means to be “in” Christ, and shows the power of embracing this truth in our day-to-day faith journey. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0173.mp3
Podcast: Is there life on other planets, and if so, do they need Jesus?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers the salvific status of alien life. Should your church support interplanetary ministries? http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0172.mp3
Sin-Bearing God
Category: General
Tags: Cross, Cruciform Theology, Divine Accommodation
Topics: Attributes and Character
On the cross, God became our sin, as Paul wrote: “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us” (2 Cor 5:21). However, God didn’t begin to be a sin-bearing God when…
Podcast: How Do I Feel God’s Presence More?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: God's Presence, Presence of God, Present Perfect
Greg examines the narratives in our heads, and the neurology in our brains, to help Dan and Julie feel God’s presence more. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0171.mp3 photo: Martin Mutch Source: Here
Jesus, the Word of God
Category: General
Tags: Bible Interpretation, Cruciform Theology, Jesus
Topics: Biblical Interpretation
“[T]he standing message of the Fathers to the Church Universal,” writes Georges Florovsky, was that “Christ Jesus is the Alpha and Omega of the Scriptures both the climax and the knot of the Bible.”[1] It…
Podcast: If Nobody Can Come to Jesus Unless God Draws Them, Isn’t Salvation Predestined?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Grace, Predestination
John 6:64-65 sounds very predestination-y. Is it? Greg considers the nature of God’s ‘drawing’ of us to Christ. Are those who are not drawn excluded due to some in God? Or something in those individuals?…
Podcast: Is Accepting Evolution with All It’s Violence Compatible with Believing in a Loving Creator?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Evolution, Violence
Greg considers the violence inherent in evolution (and in nature itself) in light of our belief in an all-loving creator. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0169.mp3
The Philando Castile Verdict
Category: General
Tags: Current Events, Violence
I’m not going to get political. I’m just going to be honest. My heart is pounding. In anger. In sorrow. In fear (over what this might lead to). I know that, unlike the jury, we…
The Non-Violent Jesus Clothed in Violence
Category: General
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
As I’ve argued in several books (for instance, see The Myth of a Christian Nation) as well as in many posts, Jesus refused to use the power that was available to him to defend himself,…
Podcast: What’s the Deal with the Nephilim?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Nephilim
Greg looks the strange story of the Nephilim. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0168.mp3