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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….

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. ;-)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Hi bloggers and bloggerettes, Sorry it’s been a few days since I’ve posted. Been crazy busy. I’ve been discussing the problem of divinely sanctioned violence in the Old Testament. So far I’ve argued that whether…