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Hearing God’s Voice and Discerning God’s Will
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Article by Larissa Lee When someone says, “God told me…” I instinctively cringe. I’ve had self-appointed prophets use “God told me” to emotionally manipulate me. We’ve all likely heard an evangelist claim “God told them”…
From Christianity to Atheism and Back Again
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Topics: Apologetics
Article by Larissa Lee Do you ever wonder what makes a person become an atheist? Or what makes an atheist become a Christian? I’m in a rare position to tell you the answer to both….
How Do You Define Sin? (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Sin
Greg looks at the nature of badness in this fleshy episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0689.mp3
Podcast: Can Non-Believers Be Redeemed in Purgatory?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Topics: Death and Salvation
Greg considers whether the acceptance of purgatory opens the door for non-believers to be saved after death. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0112.mp3
The Future of Open Theism: From Antecedents to Opportunities (book review)
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books
Topics: Open Theism
a book review by Greg Boyd While there were many precursors to the movement, Open Theism first exploded on the scene as a controversial issue among Evangelicals in the wake of the 1994 publication of…
The Paintings of Susan Outlaw (Saturday Art Share)
Category: General, Guest Contributor
We come around a bend, or up over a hill, and we stop, and maybe we gasp, and we lock our eyes on a scene and we mutter something like, “that’s beautiful.’ When we try…
Saturday Art Share: The Blame
Category: General, Guest Contributor
This week’s Saturday Art Share brings you THE BLAME by me, Dan Kent. The Blame is a two minute parable about the futility of violence. In came to me twenty years ago during an election…
Saturday Art Share: The Photography of Thomas Jay Oord
Category: General, Guest Contributor
Commentary by Dan Kent I carry a dread in my heart that human progress has whittled nature almost down to nothing. In my heart I assume we’ve marked and tagged, and moved all God’s creatures…
Can you have an Anabaptist Mega-Church?
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Community, House Churches, Kingdom Living, Mega-Churches, The Meeting House, Woodland Hills Church
Topics: The Church
Several times over the last few years I’ve heard statements like this: “Boyd may embrace an Anabaptist theology, but his church (Woodland Hills) cannot be, by definition, an Anabaptist church because an Anabaptist church can’t be…
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…
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
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. …
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…
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…
The Worst Heresy That Never Got Anyone Burned at the Stake
Category: General
Tags: Calvinism, Enemy Love, Heresy, Love Your Enemies, Self-Sacrificial Love, Torture
Topics: Following Jesus
According to John’s Gospel, on the evening of his crucifixion Jesus clearly articulated the single-most important quality by which his followers would be recognized: “By this all men will know that you are my disciples,…
A Very Brief History of Open Theism
Category: General
Tags: History, Open Theism, Theology
Topics: Defending the Open View
While the open view of the future has always been a very minor perspective, it has had its defenders throughout Church history and it has never been called “heresy” (until in mid 1990s when some…
Will We Do Work in Heaven? (podcast)
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Afterlife, Heaven
Greg considers the potential activities of eternal citizenship. Episode 582 http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0582.mp3
God’s Ways Are Higher Than Ours
Category: General
Tags: Blessing, Kingdom of God, Love, Racial, Unity
Topics: Ethical, Cultural and Political Issues
A frequently quoted passage from the Old Testament comes from Isaiah 55. It reads: …my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways… As the heavens are higher than the earth, so…