Greg Boyd

Hi bloggers, I’m sure some of you have read Frank Viola’s Pagan Christianity and Reimagining the Church. In the first work he shows how a great deal of the traditional model of the church is…

For my 52nd birthday I went to the animated movie Up with Shelley and a couple of friends. What a marvelous birthday present!! People, you HAVE to see this show (and in the theaters, not…

All my life there’s been a haunting song that would pop into my head now and then.  The lyrics went… Traveling around from town to town. Sometimes I think I’ll settle down. But I know…

I spent last week railing against The American Patriot’s Bible which, among other things, unwittingly depicts Jesus as your typical pagan tribal warrior god who happens to always side with America (because we are so…

Beginning with my previous post I’m offering some reflections on the New American Patriot’s Bible (henceforth Patriot’s Bible). The Patriot’s Bible opens with several prefaces, one of which is an essay entitled A Call To…

Someone e-mailed me a question the other day that might initially seem like a child’s question but that actually touches on an extremely important, but often overlooked, point. It concerns the significance of God’s infinitude….

Hello CVM Bloggers, I received quite a lot of interesting feedback on my last post addressing the demise of Christianity in America and claiming that this is not something Jesus-followers should weep over. One particularly…

Hello bloggers, I’ve come across two very interesting and insightful essays this week on the demise of American Christianity. The first is Michael Spencer’s “The coming evangelical collapse” published in the Christian Science Monitor, and…

This last weekend I was in Vancouver Canada participating in The Good News Tour. This is a traveling conference that celebrates, proclaims and defends the beautiful character of God as revealed in Jesus Christ. Some…

Hello bloggers, I’ll start by warning you that I’m offering a perspective in this post that is, by “normal” evangelical standards, unconventional. To readers who fall into this category, I ask only that you to…

Hello blogging buds, Thanks for all the encouraging responses to my “soul-ache” post. I’m continuing to explore its source and remain free of idolatry. In the mean time, here’s something that might interest some of…

 Mind if I just sort of soul-barf with this post? I’m just going to explore something out loud and see what comes of it. I’ve been noticing an intensifying pain in my soul over the…

Hi folks, Shelley and I along with our small group returned last Friday from an incredible nine-day vacation in Puerto Rico. (Actually, one of the couples in our group — Dave and Terri Churchill —…

Heh bloggers, Well, to transition from the truly egg-heady (last blog) to the merely entertaining and cute (this blog). Check out the latest video of “the world’s fastest two-year-old drummer.” It just so happens he’s…

Hi blog buds, If you don’t consider yourself an egg-head, this blog might not be your cup of tea. Tune in next post. But if you are an egg-head and are interested in things like…

Hi Bloggers! Sorry I haven’t been blogging much lately. Economic challenges have required that I be more involved in the details of Woodland Hills Church than usual. I’ve also been more obsessive than usual with…