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Does Analytic Thinking Make You Less Religious?
Category: General
Tags: Belief, Science
Andrew Aghapour wrote an article that was posted in Religion Dispatches questioning the findings of studies that concluded that analytical thinking negatively affects religious belief. In the article, Does Analytic Thinking Erodes Religious Belief? Aghapour…
Greg on the Open View: Video One
Category: General
Tags: Open Theism
By popular demand, we’re sharing the first of Greg’s video presentations on the Open View of the future. If you enjoy it, you can find the rest of the series entitled A Flexible Sovereignty: A…
Glorious Creation
Category: General
Tags: Creation, Science
I’m not a scientist, but I’ve always loved to dabble in it. In fact, I collaborated with some friends and wrote a quirky picture book on the interfacing of various areas of science (e.g. quantum…
Where are the Blessed Peacemakers?
Category: General
Tags: Non-Violence, Peacemaking
Religion Dispatches Magazine posted an article recently on embracing non-violence in the Christian tradition. In it, Elizabeth Drescher argues that the violent imagery in Paul’s writing accounts for a great deal of the violent posturing…
Greg on the Open View of the Future
Category: General
Tags: Open Theism
Greg was featured today on the Pangea blog. (Thanks Kurt!) The blog references a series of lectures Greg presented at the Open Theology and Science Conference at Azusa Pacific University, April 11, 2008 entitled “A Flexible Sovereignty:…
The Deep Truth
Category: General
Tags: Identity in Christ, Sermons
In last weekend’s sermon at Woodland Hills Church, Greg talks about the deep truth of your life that is real, but sometimes difficult to experience as real. How do we live in this deep truth…
More Grains of Sand or More Stars in the Sky?
Category: General
In case this question has been keeping you up at night, here’s your answer, plus a bonus fact that will blow your mind about the number of molecules in ten drops of water (you’ll have to…
Hellbound? in the Washington Post
Category: General
Tags: Heaven and Hell, Hellbound, Theology
Kevin Miller, the writer/director of “Hellbound?” was featured in the Washington Post in an article titled “Hell is a reality distortion field.” He challenges us to consider that what we believe about hell or anything…
Q&A: If God is So Great, Why Would He Care About Us?
Category: General
Tags: God, Q&A
Question: I’ve read that scientists estimate that the number of stars in the universe is 10 to the 24th power (10 with 24 zeros after it). I’m told that finding the earth amidst all these stars…
You Have What We Call a Theological Problem
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Religious Idolatry
Peter Enns posted a blog entitled: Dear Christian: If the Thought of Either Romney or Obama Getting Elected Makes You Fearful, Angry, or Depressed, You Have What we Call a Theological Problem. He makes some pretty…
Quotes to Chew on: Racial Reconciliation
Category: General
Tags: Quotes, Racial Reconciliation
Jesus perfectly embodied God’s heart for racial reconciliation. For example, most Jews of Jesus’ day despised Samaritans as racially impure and as heretics. They avoided physical or social contact with them if at all possible….
Hellbound?
Category: General
Tags: Heaven and Hell, Hellbound
Greg will be at the 7:15 showing of Hellbound? this Tuesday evening at AMC Inver Grove 16 to answer questions after the showing. The writer/director Kevin Miller will be there as well. If you’re in…
What Does it Mean to be a Disciple?
Category: General
Tags: Bruxy Cavey, Discipleship
http://youtu.be/zZVBV3zByys Here’s our good friend Bruxy Cavey talking about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus and to call him “Lord.” It’s less than three minutes, but it’s a good reminder of what…
Is the Separation of Church and State Satan’s Idea?
Category: General
Tags: Politics, Religious Idolatry
I encourage you to read this article. In it, Rick Perry claims that the idea of the separation of the church and state is from Satan, and he and others will next week embark on…
In the Grand Scheme of Things…
Category: General
Tags: Evolution
…don’t we have bigger things to get upset about than this?
Lighten Up: Drummer
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Drummer, Humor, Lighten Up
The fun starts in this video after the first minute or so. Greg could learn a thing or two about drumming and passion from this guy. Happy Friday!
“I’m Angry, Too”
Category: General
Tags: Hate Speech, Non-Violence, Peacemaking, Politics
A reader (thanks, Jen!) sent us this blog post by Rachel Pieh Jones, an ex-pat from Minnesota living in Djibouti. She has some incredibly insightful and sad thoughts about the hateful responses to the recent…
Thou Shalt Not Commit Logical Fallacies
Category: General
Tags: Logic, Reasoning
We found this handy little chart online that will help you to identify logical fallacies. (You’ll have to go to the website for functioning icons.) These easy-to-fall-for ways of arguing are frequently used in the media…
Q&A: If Salvation Depends on our Free Choice, How are we Saved by Grace?
Category: General
Tags: Grace, Open Theism, Q&A, Responding to Calvinism, Salvation
As a companion to today’s testimony and the link to Greg’s thoughts on Romans 9, we thought it would be helpful to post this Q&A on salvation by grace within the Open View of the…
Father of Lights
Category: General
Tags: Father of Lights documentary
The Father of Lights documentary is playing at Woodland Hills Church this Friday, September 28th at 7pm. Greg appears in part of this film shining a light on the heart of God. Follow this link…