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A Great Weekend at “The Meeting House”

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Hi folks, Just got back from an incredible weekend up in Toronto at The Meeting House where I was asked to deliver a message on how to reconcile the warrior portrait of God in the…

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Presentation of Book Outline

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I’ve been in a pretty intense manic-obsessive state the last few weeks, which is why I haven’t been blogging much. Mostly I’m obsessed with reading and writing for my book on Old Testament violence. I…

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URI Inauguration of David M. Dooley -Greg’s Speech: 4/8/10

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Watch Greg’s Speech at the Inauguration of David M. Dooley at the University of Rhode Island.

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Present Perfect is Here (and Now)

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FYI, my most recent book Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now, has hit the bookstores. Present Perfect integrates insights from Brother Lawrence, Frank Laubach and Jean P. De Caussade into essays that attempt to…

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An Interesting and Fun Time at URI

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As many of you know, last week I had the honor of giving a speech for the inauguration of David Dooley as the President of the University of Rhode Island. There was a good bit…

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Want to Hear My Inauguration Speech?

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Heh folks, As I mentioned in my previous blog, I have the high honor of speaking at the inauguration of David Dooley at the University of Rhode Island this Thursday. Well, I’ve been informed that…

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A Little Controversy at a Presidential Inauguration

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I am honored to have been asked by David Dooley to speak next week at his inauguration as President of the University of Rhode Island. President Dooley is familiar with some of my works and…

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Ezekiel 20:25-26 and the Condescending God

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Ezekiel 20:25-26 is a rather puzzling verse. Because Israel would not obey the Lord, he says…. “I gave them other statutes that were not good and laws through which they could not live; I defiled…

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What I’ve Been Reading Lately

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Every once in a while people ask me what I’ve been reading lately. Well, the last six months I’ve actually been doing a lot of writing rather than reading. I have been working feverishly on…

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A Lesson on a “Trip From Hades”

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Hi blogging friends, Shelley and I and ten friends just got back from a relaxing vacation in Puerto Rico. We were originally scheduled to work with Providence Ministries in Haiti during this time, but the…

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I’m a Backslider!

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I suspect I’m more carnal than most, but I’m stunned at how easy it is for me to “backslide.” I’m not talking about falling into some heinous sin. I just find I gravitate strongly toward…

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My Boy (Nate) is in the News!

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A couple of months ago I introduced you to my son Nathan who has “high functioning autism” and who enjoys expressing himself through art. With the support of friends he launched an internet business called…

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I Told Mennonites to “Go to Hell” (and they liked it!)

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Before I explain the title of this blog, a couple of updates. * My friend Dr. Jen Halverson has been in Haiti for five days now. She is working in one of the make-shift “clinics”…

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Unthinkable Devastation

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Short of Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped, I can’t imagine a worse situation than we find in Haiti right now. The magnitude of devastation is simply unthinkable. The poorest country in the western hemisphere,…

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Drumming, Openness, Providence and Whatever

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Here’s one of four arguments I offer in this essay against the view that an omniscient God must by definition know the future exhaustively as a domain of eternally settled facts.

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NDY

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Hey folks! NDY (Not Dead Yet), the band in which I am the drummer, will be rock’n the house once again this Friday, January 8th, at the Dugout Bar in Mahtomedi, MN.  Doors open at…

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Ten Years Ago

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I hope all of you welcomed in the new year with family and friends or (if you so chose) enjoyable solitude. My small group along with some of our kids, grandkids and friends had a…

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Merry Christmas!

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I just want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Thanks also to all who have provided prayer and financial support to this ministry throughout this last year.  It’s a honor…

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The Scandal Over Global Warming

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Okay, I’m back. Between end of the year church stuff, my obsession with my book Jesus Versus Jehovah, some drama with friends and family, and trying to keep up with the incredible number of orders…

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Neue Resources Podcast Part One- 11/30/09

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Josh Loveless interviews Greg about the controversy that seems to follow him. They talk about the fallout of a sermon series he did and his book The Myth of a Christian Religion. Click here to…

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