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Welcome to ReKnew!
Category: General
Tags: ReKnew
Thanks for visiting ReKnew.org! We’re delighted you came to check us out!
I and the team of people who helped launch this ministry are incredibly excited about the vision God has given us for ReKnew. We believe God has huge plans in store not only for this website, but for this ministry as a whole. It’s our hope and prayer that you will be impacted by this ministry and inspired to join us as we seek to advance the beautiful, peculiar, Jesus-looking kingdom of God.
Let me introduce you to ReKnew by sharing with you why we exist.
God’s Warriors
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Politics, Violence
Greg’s ideas on faith and politics were featured in the Peabody Award-winning CNN Presents: God’s Warriors. Watch the full video below. For more information, including behind the scenes footage, visit God’s Warriors – Special Reports from CNN.com.
Evangelical Politics: Three Generations
Category: Sermons and Video Clips
Tags: Politics
Chuck Colson, Greg Boyd and Shane Claiborne represent three generations of influential evangelicals engaging in an intriguing discussion on the role of faith and politics. The lively conversation on NPR’s On Being (formerly Speaking of…
Divine Accommodation and the Cross: where Calvin was onto something
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Cruciform Theology, Scripture
Over the last few posts, I’ve been arguing that the cross represents the thematic center of everything Jesus was about. Hence, rather than striving to have a “Christocentric” theology — which is so broad it…
Answering an Objection to a Cross-Centered Approach to Scripture
Category: Q&A
Tags: Bible, Cruciform Theology, Inerrancy, Q&A, Scripture
Topics: Christus Victor view of Atonement
Through Greg’s Facebook and Twitter, we’ve been getting some great feedback and questions regarding his cross-centered approach to Scripture. Several have voiced questions similar to the reader’s (below), so we thought it would be helpful to post Greg’s answer here on his blog.
How The Imperfections of Scripture Reveal God Perfectly
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Inerrancy, Scripture
In my previous blog I discussed one important implication of a cruciform (“cross-centered”) approach to biblical inspiration. On the cross, I noted, God revealed his perfection by identifying with human imperfection. Jesus in some sense…
Scripture’s God-Breathed Imperfections
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Inerrancy, Scripture
“Inerrancy” of Scripture
As a conservative evangelical who accepted the “inerrancy” of Scripture, I used to be profoundly disturbed whenever I confronted contradictions in Scripture, or read books that made strong cases that certain aspects of the biblical narrative conflict with archeological findings.
Caught Between Two Conflicting Truths
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Jesus, Old Testament, Scripture, Violence
In my previous blog I tried to show that adopting a “Christocentric” approach to Scripture isn’t adequate, as evidenced by the fact that people adopting this approach often come to radically different conclusions. In fact, it seems…
Christ-Centered or Cross-Centered?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Theology
The Christocentric Movement Thanks largely to the work of Karl Barth, we have over the last half-century witnessed an increasing number of theologians advocating some form of a Christ-centered (or, to use a fancier theological…
The Atlantic: Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? [On the Web]
Category: General
Tags: Ministry, Pop Culture
An excerpt of an article by Stephen Marche in The Atlantic : To [John] Cacioppo, Internet communication allows only ersatz intimacy. Forming connections with pets or online friends or even God is a noble attempt by an obligatorily…
Introduction to ReKnew
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Tags: ReKnew
There’s never been anyone like Jesus. Not even close. And yet, there’s no greater disconnect in history than the chasm between Jesus and many who claim his name. If you’re like most thinking people, you’re…
UPDATE & NDY GIG
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Hello blog peeps. Long time no talk (except I yap everyday on Twitter). I miss this!! I didn’t intent to blog again until the ReKnew site was launched (after which time I assure you there…
Hey folks, I have some exciting news!
Category: General
If you have been visiting our website lately, you’ve probably noticed there has not been much new content or activity going on. Well, this is about to change. A LOT is about to change! Late…
NDY To Blow Minds This Friday!
Category: General
I know I know I know I KNOW! I haven’t blogged in FOUR months! After a long period of writer’s block (which had a lot to do with stupid neck pain) I have finally gotten…
An Interview with Author Darrell Rohling
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Hello internet-peeps, sorry I’ve been so remiss on blogging, but I’ve been completely obsessed with writing Crucifixion of the Warrior God. On top of that, my blog has been quirky, for reasons I can’t figure…
Play that Funky Music NOT DEAD YET!
Category: General
Want to jump up and down to loud, pulsating, contemporary club music with raunchy lyrics that you can’t understand anyway? What’s your problem? Seriously! If you have class, however, and thus enjoy listening and dancing…
The “Heresy” of Failing to Love
In what is hands-down the most amazing prayer ever recorded, Jesus prayed to his Father that his disciples “may be one…just as you are in me and I am in you” so that “the world…
Sinful Accusers and Capital Punishment
Category: General
Tags: Judgement, Sin
The Pharisees brought to Jesus a woman they had caught in the act of adultery (Jn 8:3-4; where was the guilty man?). They wanted to see how this increasingly popular, would-be Messiah, might respond. Their…
If God is already doing the most he can do, how does prayer increase his influence?
Category: Q&A
Tags: God, Prayer, Problem of Evil, Providence, Q&A
Topics: Defending the Open View, Hearing God, Prayer, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
Question: If God always does the most that he can in every tragic situation, as you claim in Satan and the Problem of Evil, how can you believe that prayer increases his influence, as you…