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Can this Generation Live Out the Kingdom of God and What Would it Look Like? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Daniel Alexander and Greg Boyd dream of the Kingdom of God on earth here and now. Episode 623 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0623.mp3
Is Anything Possible for Believers? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Daniel Alexander travels all the way up from Austin Texas to bring Greg a challenging question. Will Greg shoot an air ball? Or will it be a slam dunk? Episode 622 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0622.mp3
The Logical Hexagon Made Simple
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism, Philosophy
Topics: Defending the Open View, Free Will and the Future, Providence, Predestination and Free Will
by: Greg Boyd The Hexagaon in a Nutshell For those of you who don’t have the twenty to thirty minutes it will probably take to read this essay but who nevertheless would like to have…
Does Church Make Christians Dumber? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg and Dan go after intellectual passivity. Episode 618 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0618.mp3
When You Were an Atheist in College, What was Your Major? (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Greg thinks back to his godless college months. Episode 617 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0617.mp3
Boyd’s Bad Ass Tattoo
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Open Future, Open Theism
Topics: Free Will and the Future, Open Theism
by: Greg Boyd In the process of working through a philosophical issue surrounding the openness of the future around twenty years ago, I and two friends (Alan Rhoda and Tom Belt) ended up creating the…
Is There Hope for Judas? (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers the fate of Judas and the salvific creativity of God. Episode 616 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0616.mp3
If Discerning Good & Evil is Good, Why Was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil Bad? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg pushes back the foliage on the topic of judgement. Episode 615 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0615.mp3
Can You Hold a Cruciform Theology AND a Penal Substitution View of Atonement? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Penal Substitution View of Atonement
If you view the cross as the outlet of God’s wrath, then the violence in the Old Testament seems to make perfect sense. Greg responds. Episode 614 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0614.mp3
America on Thin Ice
Category: General
Tags: Political Idolatry, Politics
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
by: Greg Boyd I was fascinated by Congress’s Impeachment Trial. After all available witnesses had testified and all the available evidence had been presented, not one mind on either side of the aisle had changed. …
Did Free Will Evolve? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Evolution, Free Will, Open Theism
Greg considers how free will emerged from the churning chaos of evolution.. Episode 613 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0613.mp3
Does Jesus Affirm Old Testament Stories as True in EVERY Way? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg thinks critically about the historical-critical method of reading the Bible. Episode 612 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0612.mp3
Did the Fall Happen Over Time? Or All At Once? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: The Fall
Greg considers the paradigmatic role of Adam and the power of Genesis 1-3. Episode 611 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0611.mp3
Resisting the Pull for Armed Defense
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
Article by Michael Gonzalez Yesterday it happened again. Another shooting of innocent victims. Violence upon violence. This time and certainly not the first, in a church. A gunman entered West Freeway Church of Christ in…
What About People Who Lived Long Before Jesus? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg considers the nature of salvation and considers some important implications of God’s love. Episode 610 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0610.mp3
Why Are Jesus’s Parables So Violent? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Parables
Greg pops the hood to offer a helpful tutorial on how parables operate. Episode 609 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0609.mp3
Does a Closed Canon Imply a Type of Cessationism? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg defends the spiritual gifts. Dan defends the closed canon. Iron sharpens iron. Sparks fly. Episode 608 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0608.mp3
What is the Soul? (podcast)
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: dualism, Metaphysics
Greg looks at the irreducible self and ponders what happens to our personhood at death. Episode 607 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0607.mp3
God With Us (Not With Them?)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Tags: Advent, Emmanuel
Article by Elisabeth Bojangle Advent: God coming to us As I write this mid-December morning, my fingers are clumsy and cool from the chilly steering wheel during my drive home from dropping the kids off…
What is the significance of Esther 4:14?
Category: Q&A
Tags: Open Theism, Q&A
Topics: Open Theism
Verse: Esther 4
The wise Mordecai encourages Esther to bravely risk her life by pleading the case of the Jews before King Xerxes, saying, “…if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will…