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Podcast: Must a Kingdom Pacifist Be a Political Pacifist?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Non-Violence, Pacifism
Greg discusses different levels of pacifism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0213.mp3
Who Rules Governments? God or Satan? Part 2
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Government, Open Theism, Power, Satan
In the previous post, I raised the question of how we reconcile the fact that the Bible depicts both God and Satan as the ruler of nations, and I discussed some classical ways this has…
Podcast: What Do You Do When Your Spouse Walks Away From Faith?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Marriage
Greg discusses dealing with spouses who do not believe. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0212.mp3
Podcast: How Important is it to Accept the Historical Validity of the Virgin Birth?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Jesus' Divinity
Greg discusses the potential sainthood of Joseph, and the importance of the virgin birth. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0211.mp3
Who Rules Governments? God or Satan? Part 1
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Government, Open Theism, Power, Satan
Running throughout Scripture is the motif that depicts God as the ultimate ruler of the nations. On the other hand, the NT teaches that the ruler of nations is Satan. What do we do with…
Podcast: What’s the Deal with the Laying on of Hands?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Prayer
Greg and Dan get touchy in this very handy episode on ‘the laying on of hands.’ http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0210.mp3
Satan or God: Who Tempted David to Sin?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology
The author of 2 Samuel says that Yahweh caused David to sin by taking a census of his military personnel (2 Sam 24:1) while the author of 1 Chronicles attributes this temptation to Satan (1…
Podcast: Are You a Christian Anarchist?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Greg dabbled in Christian Anarchism. This is his tale… http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0209.mp3
Podcast: How Do You Understand God’s Promises to Israel?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Israel
Greg discusses God’s promises to Israel. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0208.mp3
Did God Kill King Saul?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology
When we approach Scripture with the assumption that it is all God-breathed for the purpose of bearing witness to Christ, even the most trivial contradictions in Scripture can acquire theological significance. This is what I…
Podcast: Why Is God SO Tough on Angels?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Angels
Greg discusses God’s attitude towards angels. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0207.mp3
Podcast: How Should We Handle Disagreements in the Church?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Church, Conflict, Mega-Churches
Greg discusses Christian conflict resolution. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0206.mp3
Sending Evil Spirits
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Evil, Judgment
In several infamous biblical depictions of Yahweh in the Old Testament, God is depicted as “sending” spirits to trouble and/or deceive people (Judg 9:22-3; 1 Sam 16:14, 23; 18:10; 19:9; 1 Kg 22:20-3). While there…
Podcast: How Do You Expel Unrepentant People From Your Church?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Church
Greg gets tough on Tom Foolery and discusses dealing with behavior that is sinful and unrepentant. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0205.mp3
Does God Inflict Physical Disabilities?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Sickness, Spiritual Warfare
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In Exodus 4, we find Moses claiming that he could not be used by Yahweh to get the children of Israel out of Egypt because he was “slow of speech and tongue.” To this Yahweh…
Podcast: What are the Grounds for Divorce?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Divorce
Greg discusses divorce, dead marriages, and sexual unfaithfulness. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0204.mp3
Does the Lord “Devastate” the Earth?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Judgment
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
There is this passage that has sometimes been labeled “Isaiah’s Little Apocalypse” that proclaims how the Lord will “lay waste,” “destroy,” and “ruin” the earth. (The following builds on this previous post which identifies a…
Podcast: Why Take ‘Turn the Other Cheek’ Seriously and Not Divorce?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Divorce, Pacifism
Greg discusses divorce and pacifism. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0203.mp3
Who Curses the Earth?
Category: General
Tags: Cruciform Theology, The Fall
Topics: Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
After the “fall” of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, their sin results in a five curses: on nature, on marriage, on human life, on the serpent, and on women during childbirth. Who…
Podcast: Would a Loving Messiah Call a Woman a DOG?!?
Category: ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Crucifixion of the Warrior God, Cruciform Theology, Jesus Feminist, Love and Judgment
Greg talks about why Jesus would say such apparently cruel things to some poor Canaanite woman. Oh, he also tells a joke about hamsters. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0202.mp3