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If you really want to defend the poor from Caesar, shouldn’t we use the political means that exist? It’s easy to make your argument when you are in a position of privilege.
Category: Q&A
Tags: Kingdom Living, Politics, Poverty
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Question: I’ve been reading your blogs for a while. I’ve read multiple texts written by you and it’s difficult to listen much longer as someone in poverty. It’s easy to make your argument when you…
Quotes to Chew on: How First Century Jews Came to Worship a Man
Category: General
Tags: Books, Jesus, Quotes
“Legends do not generally arise in contradiction to fundamental convictions held by the culture of those who create and embrace them. Yet if the Jesus story is largely a fictitious legend, this is exactly what…
For the Bible Tells Me So?
Category: General
Tags: Bible, Fundamentalism
Oh, those pesky fundamentalists are at it again. Should it be legal for parents to execute their rebellious children based upon Deut 21:18-21? This guy thinks so. And he’s a Bible-believing Christian who is a candidate…
Sermon: The Pygmy Way
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Sermons, Woodland Hills Church
Last weekend Greg preached about the history of Woodland Hills Church as a part of the church’s 20th anniversary. It’s a pretty fun walk down memory lane as well as a challenge to follow the…
Change the World
Category: General
Greg will be speaking at the Change the World Ginghamsburg Missional Conference, October 18-19 in Tipp City Ohio. Why would you want to attend? “Because life is way too short & the mission too critical…
Would God Kill a Baby To Teach Parents a Lesson?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Non-Violence
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will, The Problem of Evil
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…
Smack Talk on the Idolatry of the Family
Category: General
Tags: Family, Jesus, Kingdom Living
Ben Ponder doesn’t pull any punches in his article Idolatry of the Family. He argues that, contrary to some evangelical claims, “Jesus didn’t die on a God-forsaken cross to preserve your horn-rimmed vision of 1950s…
When the Gospel is Reduced to a Sinner’s Prayer
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living
Jeff Clark posted an article recently entitled The Gospel of Sin Management and the Loss of Discipleship. We do violence to the gospel when we forget that we are called beyond a mere “sinner’s prayer”…
Commissioned
Category: General
Tags: Blessing, Kingdom Living
Here’s something to inspire you on this Sunday morning. Image by Megan Allen. Sourced via Flickr.
A Cruciform Magic Eye
Category: General
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In this post I’d like to share the story of how I came upon the thesis I’m defending in the book I’ve been working on for the last four years entitled The Crucifixion of the…
Angels Among Us
Category: General
Tags: Poetry
Here’s a poem for your Friday. Remember to see what is beneath the ordinary. The Jewel, by Richard Jones I like this moment when there is nothing more I need to do, when I have…
All Creatures Great and Small
Category: General
Tags: Animals, Blessing
Topics: Creation Care
Kurt Willems over at The Pangea Blog shared this video on a blessing ceremony for animals. It’s a reminder that our first commission from God was to care for the animals and the Earth. Be…
Sermon: Unveiling the Crypto-You
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
Last weekend Greg preached a sermon on living as your true self that God has declared you to be. You can download audio and video resources as well as supporting sermon materials by visiting the…
“Pulpit Freedom Sunday” and the Call to Politicize the Pulpit
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Religious Idolatry
Religion Dispatches online magazine shared an article in which conservative evangelical leaders are calling on pastors to dare the government to sue them by using their pulpit to speak out against Obama and other “ungodly”…
Quotes to Chew On: Are we growing in our capacity to love all people?
Category: General
“John sums up the matter bluntly. “Those who say, ‘I love God,’ and hate their brothers and sisters, are liars” (1 John 4:20). To truly love God includes loving others with the same love God…
So, What Do You Do?
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ
Don’t ever let this question define you. Image by Victor Bezrukov. Sourced via Flickr.
Greg Boyd and Jim Wallis Debate on Faith and Politics
Category: General
Tags: Politics
A few readers have been asking us to repost the audio (sorry, no video is available) of Greg’s debate with Jim Wallis on Faith and Politics back in 2006. It’s an oldie but goodie. Enjoy!
Urgent!
Category: General
Tags: Being Present
Jeff Goins invited blogger Sundi Jo to share some thoughts on The Power of being Present in an Age of Urgency. It’s a call to slow down and notice what we really care about. It’s…
A Rational Defense of Belief in God
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Evolution, Faith, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
The New York Times recently posted a review of Alvin Plantinga’s book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism. In it, Plantinga argues on philosophical grounds that, among other things, theism is not in conflict with science,…