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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…

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…

Hi folks, Well, now that my toe drama is over we can get back to the topic we’ve been wrestling with the last several posts: How can the motif of divine violence in the Old…

Just like the famous rock group I play in, I’m NOT DEAD YET! I’m out of the hospital, alive and well. But, there WAS a little drama. I had to preach at the WHC 5:00…

You might remember a post last month detailing Greg’s unfortunate injury to his little toe. Insignificant injury, right? Well, Greg is currently in the hospital recovering from a runaway infection. Greg’s toe started feeling pretty…

Hello fellow brave inquirers who aren’t afraid of dealing with difficult issues head-on: We’re trying to make sense of the violent strand of the Old Testament in which God is depicted as a warrior —…

Chuck Colson is one of the most respected, influential voices in the modern Evangelical movement. His book God & Government is an important one, for in this work we find Colson’s seasoned reflections on the…