Posts

Hi folks, The last two blogs have generated a bit of a stir. Good! If what I’m saying about the centrality of Calvary-looking love is right, we need a major paradigm shift on how we…

Wow, I’ve gotten a ton of feedback on the picture in my previous blog. (I still have forty or so e-mails to get through!) Almost all of the responses (so far) have been positive! I…

Brad Cole is a friend of mine who runs a ministry called Heavenly Sanctuary. This ministry puts on Conferences around the country on the Character of God — and they get it right. This year…

Hello my intellectual internet friends, I’m preaching through the book of Luke these days (actually the last several years), and this last week was on Luke 10:17-24. In this passage the 70 disciples that had…

Hi Folks, Crazy last 9 days for me!*Last Friday through Sunday participated in a conference on faith and politics in Kansas.*Monday was in meetings all day at Woodland Hills Church.*Tuesday worked 14 hours on my…

Hello internet friends, I spent the weekend at a conference at Heston College, a small Mennonite college located just outside of Witchita. I and John Roth, a Mennonite historian, held several sessions and participated in…

Here’s a thought: It’s hard to deny that capitalism is the best economic system around. It creates wealth far better than feudalism, communism, socialism or any other system one could name. But for all its…

Wow, did I have a great time at the Faith and Politics Conference at Yale (it was actually called “Voices and Votes”)! It was quite an experience returning to my Alma Mater after 25 years….

Here are my thoughts for the day on the topic of JUSTICE. People so often say things like: “The Bible calls us to stand for justice” and “We need to live out the biblical mandate…

Sorry. Sorry. Sorrrrrry! I know I know I know. Dr. Boyd is a bad bad blogger. I’ve been completely and totally and unequivocally SWAMPED this week. Honestly. Here’s quick update for today and I promise…

Heh folks, Just a reflection for the day. One of the passages most frequently cited in attempts to refute the open view of the future is Psalm 139:16. Here David says that God viewed him…

Hello fellow thoughtful bloggerites, Well, I’ll just start by saying I’m delighted Marcia has decided to unilaterally disarm. She has put down her swor… uhr… camera and taken up the cross. Admirable. But it was…

many are asking if this is an all out friend war, what will be my next step? all I can say…I have the camera…I’m committed to truth with my lens…but this is not the time…this…

Hi Folks, Thanks for blogging in. First want to express my profound appreciation for my dear FRIEND Marcia (the lard) Erickson who kindly showed the entire WORLD what a slob I am. ( : My…

I’m really glad Greg professes to be non-violent…he won’t hurt me for posting this picture of him working from home. I had a photo shoot with Greg for a project we’re doing and as Shelley…

Hello bloggers, Went out with my small group Friday night and saw the movie, “In the Valley of Elah,” starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron and Susan Sarandon. This is a great movie, mainly because…

Hot off the press (I kid you not)! Omaha senator Ernie Chambers (a long time critic of Christianity) is bringing a lawsuit against one who has caused “untold death and horror” while “threatening to cause…

The other day we said goodbye, at least for a while, to a wonderful young lady named Jennifer Halverson. No she didn’t die. She left for Haiti. Let me tell you about my friend Jen….

Since the publication of The Myth of a Christian Nation, many have become aware of my conviction that Jesus calls us to love our enemies and live a non-violent lifestyle. As a result, I’ve gotten…

On my August 9th blog, I argued that there’s no reason to suppose that God was involved in the collapse of the 35 W bridge. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the amount of blog activity…