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Podcast: Can a Perfectly Loving God Be Angry?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Anger, God's Love, God's Wrath, Wrath
Greg talks about the role of anger in this heated episode. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0426.mp3
Are Christians Required to Give 10% of Their Income to the Church?
Category: General
Tags: Christian Life, Finances, Tithing
Question: I and my husband have become increasingly uncomfortable with the many sermons on tithing we’ve been recently hearing at our church. Our pastor insists we tithe 10% to the church regardless of what else we…
Study with Greg at Northern Seminary
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ANABAPTIST STUDIES New Anabaptist Studies Program at Northern Seminary Lead the Church, Engage the World with an Anabaptist Perspective Northern Seminary’s new Anabaptist Studies Program (with certificate and degree options) begins June 2019. In this…
Saturday Art Share: Chase Reed Photography
Category: General, Lighten Up
Chase takes some good photographs. If you’re into nature photography, like I am, give him a follow on Instagram.
Inconceivable!
Category: Essays, General
Tags: Humility, Knowledge, Philosophy
Though it’s now thirty-one years old, I’m willing to bet that the majority of you have watched the Princess Bride at least once. In fact, I’m willing to bet that a lot of you have…
Three Arguments Against Determinism
Category: General
Tags: Free Will, Predestination, Responding to Calvinism
Topics: Providence, Predestination and Free Will
There was an interesting article in the NY Times yesterday by John Tierney entitled “Do You Have Free Will? Yes, It’s The Only Choice.” The article reviews research that suggests that everybody intuitively believes people are…
Podcast: What Should I Do if I’ve Been Depressed for Three Years?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Greg talks about depression. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0395.mp3 Melancholy (“Melankoli”) by: Edvard Munch Date: 1892
Part 20 (of 20) — Peterson’s Appeal
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life Four months ago a young woman approached me after a church service, handed me 12 Rules of Life while saying, “You really needed to know what this guy is…
Part 19 (of 20) — Peterson’s Most Controversial Interview
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Tags: Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life For the final two posts of my Peterson series, I’d like to evaluate Peterson’s most controversial interview and then close this series with a discussion on the possible…
Podcast: How Did You Get Into Drums?
Category: General, ReKnew Podcast
Tags: Drummer
Greg talks about how he began drumming. http://traffic.libsyn.com/askgregboyd/Episode_0386.mp3
Part 18 (of 20) — Jordan Peterson on Jesus
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Tags: Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “What does [Jesus’ teaching to love your enemies] mean? Learn, from the success of your enemies; listen…to their critique, so that you can glean from their opposition whatever…
Part 17 (of 20)- Jordan Peterson on God
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “God, whoever or whatever he may be, is no simple granter of wishes.” Jordan Peterson In this post I would like to review and evaluate what Peterson has…
Part 16 (of 19): The Archetypal Christ
Category: General
Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “Christ’s archetypal death exists as an example of how to accept finitude, betrayal and tyranny heroically – how to walk with God despite the tragedy of self-conscious knowledge…
Part 15 (of 19?) — Making Sacrifice
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “There is a powerful call to proper Being in the story of the third temptation [of Jesus]. To obtain the greatest possible prize—the establishment of the Kingdom of God…
Part 14 (of 15) —Taking Responsibility (Part B)
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules of Life “If things are not going well for you – well, that might be because, as the most cynical of aphorisms has it, life sucks, and then you die….
Part 13 (of 15)— Taking Responsibility (Part A)
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “If you’re not the leading man in your own drama, you’re a bit player in someone else’s.” Jordan Peterson If I had to sum up…
Part 12 (of 15): Egalitarianism and The Kingdom Community
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Egalitarianism, Gender Roles, Jesus Feminist, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd As we saw earlier in this series (see: post 7), Peterson argues that social hierarchies among humans are as natural as they are among lobsters…
Part 11 (of 15): The Corruption of Creation
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “With their capacity for aggression strait-jacketed within a too-narrow morality, those who are only or merely compassionate and self-sacrificing…cannot call forth the genuinely righteous and…
Part 10 (of 15): Who Gets To Interpret The World?
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Gender Roles, Jordan Peterson, masculinity, Women In Ministry
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd In my previous two posts (post 8 & post 9) I critically evaluated Peterson’s thinking on hierarchies, race and white privilege. In this post I’ll…
Part 9 (of 15): Peterson on White Privilege
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Tags: Book Reviews, Books, Jordan Peterson, Racial Reconciliation, Reconciliation, White Privilege
Assessing Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life by Greg Boyd “The degree to which the terrible part of the world manifests itself in your life is proportionate to how insufficient you are….If you got your…