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Reverend Greg Boyd “The Drummer”

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NDY (Not Dead Yet) will be performing Friday, June 6th, 8pm at O’Gara’s Garage in St. Paul. Cover charge is $10 at the door, with all proceeds going towards Providence House in Haiti. We hope…

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The Teleological Exegetical Principle and O.T. Violence

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These days we’re (mostly) discussing why the God of the Hebrew Bible sometimes commands people to slaughter enemies, including women and children, while Jesus reveals that God dies for enemies and longs for their forgiveness….

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Review of Ehrman’s “God’s Problem”

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The other night I read Bart Ehrman’s new book, God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer. Since it touches on the issue of violence in the…

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thanks Greg!

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just wanted to say thanks to Greg for the very sweet post on my b-day!!and Greg, I am very impressed that you managed to post something on your own without any spelling or grammar mistakes….

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN!!!

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This is my friend Jen. She’s one of the kindest, humblest and smartest people you could ever meet. She’s also a blast to party with! I first met Jen 11 years ago when she was…

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“Shadow” and “Reality”

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Hello Bloggerites, In the last post we discussed Craigie’s view that one of the central purposes why God involved himself in using violence to establish and preserve Israel was to provide humanity with a negative…

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A Negative Object Lesson: Review of Craigie III

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Hats off to Todd Dietz for his excellent, hard-hitting video! Brilliant!! Thanks for sharing that Todd. We’re discussing Peter Craigie’s work, The Problem of War in the Old Testament, as part of a broader discussion…

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Dollars = Change

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A podrishioner guest post – Todd Dietz I first heard Pastor Boyd speak online when he was at Mars Hill Church. I liked what I heard so I found the Woodland Hills Church podcasts and…

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Revealing the Horror of War: Review of Craigie, Part II.

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Hello Blogging Friends, I’m in the process of critically reviewing various perspectives on the problem of violence in the Old Testament. My goal is to extract principles along the way to hopefully arrive at a…

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Speaking of Faith

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The discussion with Greg, Shane Claiborne and Chuck Colson can be found here. We encourage you to listen to the unedited version. Posted by your friendly Admins. ;-)

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Craigie: The Problem of War in the Old Testament, Part I

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Hi folks. Today I’m returning back to my “thinking out loud” about the problem of violence in the Old Testament. My posts on Vernon Eller’s War and Peace From Genesis to Revelation produced some interesting…

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Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” Book Review

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As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m going to suspend our discussion of violence in the O.T. for one more post in order to review Eckhart Tolle’s new book, A New Earth. The book…

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More on Evolution as Cosmic Warfare

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I spend the weekend hanging out with some of my openness friends attending a Science and Openness Theology Conference in southern California. We all presented essays we’ve been working on since last summer for a…

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Evolution As Cosmic Warfare

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Well, believe it or not, I’m going to take a break today from obsessing on the problem of violence in the Old Testament and instead obsess on the problem of violence in nature. (I promise…

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A Critique of Eller’s Thesis

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Hello Bloggers, These days I’m “thinking out loud” about the problem of divinely sanctioned violence in the Old Testament. (If you’re new to this blog, I encourage you to go to the 3/14 post and…

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Is God to Blame Endorsements and Reviews

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Endorsements “In this stimulating work, Gregory Boyd shows how an incarnational theology focuses on God’s action in Jesus Christ as the source for our knowledge of God. In Jesus we see what God does for…

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Seeing is Believing Endorsements and Reviews

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Endorsements “The imagination is one of the great, untapped capacities of the Christian soul, and imaginative prayer is like diving into the ocean and discovering a world of wonders never before glimpsed or even guessed…

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A Defense of Eller’s Thesis

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Hello internet friends, In my last post I reviewed Eller’s proposal for reconciling the warrior image of Yahweh found in the Holy War tradition, on the one hand, with the self-sacrificial image of God revealed…

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The Jesus Legend Endorsements and Reviews

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Endorsements “Eddy and Boyd provide a clearly written, carefully researched, and powerfully argued defense of the historical reliability of the Synoptic Gospels. What makes this book noteworthy is the careful treatment of underlying issues in…

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Lord or Legend Endorsements and Reviews

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Endorsements “Boyd and Eddy do not shy away from the tough historical, cultural, textual, and logical questions and their implications. Both those of a modernist and those of a postmodernist bent will find this a…

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