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Is the Jesus of Revelation Wrathful?
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: End Times, Jesus, Non-Violence, Revelation
In the second coming of Jesus, will he turn with wrath? Will he come as a roaring lion, ready to put on his display all of his anger, power, and might? What does the Jesus…
Believing Is Not Enough
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Present Perfect, Salvation
One of the core elements of evangelical church life is the conversion experience. From old-time revivals, to seeker-sensitive church services, to post-modern outreach strategies, evangelicals have placed a very high emphasis on the point of…
If God Can’t Control, How Can I Trust Him?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Prayer, Problem of Evil
Topics: Open Theism, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Question: If God can’t always answer our prayers for healing, for example (and I completely understand why—free will etc), then HOW can he promise to bring good out of the bad things that happen? Surely…
Lighten Up: Eat, Pray, Love
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Kingdom Living, Lighten Up, Love, Naked Pastor, Prayer
Did God Cause the Polar Vortex?
Category: General
Tags: Natural Evil, Nature, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
When is this polar vortex thing going to end? It’s March, and even in Minnesota we expect to see temperatures warmer than this. With all of the sleet and cold in the south, it seems…
A Blessing for Ash Wednesday
Category: General
Tags: Ash Wednesday, Easter, Jan Richardson, Lent, Prayer, Repentance
Sarah (Rosenau) Korf via Compfight For those of you observing the Lenten season (and for those of you who are not), we thought we would share this poem by Jan Richardson. Rend Your Heart A…
Sermons: A Vision of Beauty
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Book of Revelation, End Times, Evolution, Revelation, Sermons
In this short sermon clip, Greg Boyd discusses how God, science, and nature can work together to tell us the story of our universe. In the full sermon, Greg begins the series on Revelation and…
The Kingdom, Just War Theory, and Ukraine
Category: Essays
Tags: Augustine, Current Events, Enemy Love, Essay, Just War, Non-Violence, War
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
History textbooks often read like surveys of how countries handled war with other nations. The stuff between the conflicts reads like precursors and aftermath to the history-making actions of war. Now we observe the rising…
Standing Our Ground Together
Category: General
Tags: Grief, Jessica Kelley, Jordan Davis, Justice, Mercy, Osheta Moore, Prayer, Racism, T.C. Moore
Osheta Moore is someone we’ve featured here before. She’s a lovely, thoughtful, passionate African-American woman of God ministering with her husband T.C. Moore in Boston. Osheta has been featuring a series called Standing Our…
Lighten Up: Something Deeper Than Membership
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Kingdom, Lighten Up, Pearls Before Swine
It shouldn’t be this weird.
In the Aftermath of the AZ Anti-Gay Bill
Category: General
V Malazarte via Compfight After yesterday’s veto of the anti-gay bill by the Arizona governor, many are pleased and many are angry. It was interesting to read the conversations after the post on the ReKnew…
What About the Arizona Anti-Gay Bill?
Category: General
Tags: Homosexuality, Judgement, Love, Myth of a Christian Nation, Sin, Social Issues
HumanSeeHumanDo via Compfight The recent anti-gay bill in Arizona which was passed last week by the state’s Legislature and now sits on the desk of the Governor, would allow companies to deny service to or…
Our Sacred Scared
Category: General
Tags: Fear, Glennon Doyle Melton, Kingdom Living
Tom Lin via Compfight Glennon Doyle Melton is the voice behind Momastery. She is a brave, funny and challenging writer who has decided to tell the truth after years of drug and alcohol abuse and…
Take America (& the World) Back for God?
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Politics, Social Issues, Violence
Kai Schreiber via Compfight Recently Missio Alliance has hosted a series of posts entitled “Christianity and Violence.” Since Greg has written quite a lot on this topic from the point of view of pacifism, we…
Lighten Up: A Parody about Church Signs
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Church Signs, Lighten Up, Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCRzjRxmvgI Ever had a problem with cheesy church signs? If so, watch this and have a good belly laugh. Don’t worry, no vile words found here. It’s a parody after all.
When You Doubt the Bible
Category: General
Tags: Benefit of the Doubt, Bible, Doubt, Faith
Kit via Compfight Many people enter into conversations with ReKnew and Greg’s writings because they have questions and doubts about the Bible which they do not feel they can ask within their current church tradition….
Listening to Music, and Some New Developments
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Greg Boyd, Music, Spiritual Formation
Over the last four months, I’ve spent one to two hours a day listening to music. I’ve obviously had to cut back on my writing/reading, but I feel like I’m supposed to do this, at…
In Darkest Times, God is Present
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Free Will, God's Presence, Problem of Evil, Sermons
“However much evil was there, it would have been far worse if God was not there pushing back on it.” There is never a time when God is not present, no matter how bad the…
Lighten Up: To and ‘Fro
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Greg Boyd, Lighten Up
Yep, that’s Greg on the right when he was a teenager. And the ‘fro is legit. No perms for this guy. Note from the editor: I once cut Greg’s hair when I was 14 years…
What To Do with the Bible’s Talk of Satan
Category: Q&A
Tags: Free Will, Problem of Evil, Spiritual Warfare, Warfare Worldview
Topics: Spiritual Warfare, Cosmic Conflict, The Problem of Evil
Recently, Roger Olson raised the question on his blog about why Satan is ignored in modern theology. He observed how Greg’s theology takes an “obvious, ‘up front,’ blatant belief in a very personal, very real,…