Testimonies

Pastor Greg, I can’t thank you enough for all the work you’ve done to communicate your faith journey to the world. I consider myself a highly skeptical person raised in a fundamentalist worldview, not able to fully commit to an angry God but too afraid to leave for fear of hell and lack of options. Finding out that the gospel is actually good news has been such a relief. I understand for the first time what it means to be transformed by the renewing of my mind. Reading CWG drastically changed my outlook on God and his activity in this…

Just finished reading “The Myth of A Christian Nation.” Wow. And very appropriate to 2017. Thanks for your thoughts and how well you back them up with Scripture. You have given me tools with which to defend my position against “religious” and “patriotic” folks who are attacking me for what they consider my “radicalness.” George  

Hi Greg, Just wanted to express my appreciation and gratitude for making your teaching so available and for leading us in a beautiful way into understanding the Kingdom. My wife and I have been engaged for over 40 years with YWAM in Africa and so enjoy watching one of your messages to stimulate us and grasp in a better way how the Kingdom is and can be. This continent needs change and transformation can only come as we understand the true Kingdom message and the King of that Kingdom. With much appreciation and respect for your humble, open approach to…

I think one of the many beautiful things about Jesus is that He doesn’t stop pursuing us.  Even through our doubts and our deepest hurts. I was raised Catholic, but I stopped believing in high school. I have been a devout atheist for 12 years and I was saved this past July. Last March someone special to me came into my life. I met him, and we struck up a conversation about the existence of God. For the first time in my life, a devout Christian was interested in what I had to say-i.e. my reasons for thinking that being…

I just want to express my thanks for being so willing to beat the path for so many into understanding the beautiful character of our Loving Heavenly Father. I grew up as a good evangelical Christian in Australia, encouraged not to question too much the doctrines that seemed to paint a strange picture of God. At least a picture that didn’t look entirely Christlike. Things like the traditional view of hell, predestination and of course, OT violence. This left me with a pretty flat and bland Christian life on the verge of depression that was only ‘sparked’ and made more…

Hello, I just finished reading “The Myth of a Christian Nation”, and I was moved to come to your website. I have, like many, felt adrift in the current church climate. Sometimes I would feel so confused while listening to teachings where the Pharisees were clearly in the wrong, and yet sitting amongst those same people just with the label “Christian”. I am so pleased that you wrote this book, and I am excited to start listening to your podcast. I feel like life has been breathed into my faith again. Thank you for that. Regards, Jessica

Greg, I have two thoughts to share. First is just my own gratitude for your most recent work on “Crucifixion of the Warrior God.” The second is a personal story I hope you’ll read! It’s from my work with traumatized children, and I think you’ll find it fascinating and a good real-life example of the theories you lay out about God’s nature. So first, I have to admit, I have not read the book in full, yet. I have watched all of the related sermons. Also, I have directed friends to your videos/work for years, especially your Q&A’s, and series which…

Dr. Boyd, I am a teacher out on Long Island at a Lutheran middle and high school. I grew up in Minnesota and in fact went to college at Bethel University but did not have the privilege of being able to have you in class. A couple of weeks ago, I was asked to speak at our chapel service. I had been inspired by your book ‘Present Perfect’ and used it as the basis of my message (of course giving you due credit). I encouraged the students to remain ‘Awake’ to the heightened awareness of God’s presence at all times…

Hi, I just wanted to say thank you to Dr. Boyd for all that he has done. I am reading his latest book, Crucifixion of the Warrior God, and it is helping me very much. I am one of those “pod-rishioners.” I live in Spartanburg, SC. I grew up in a strict Independent Fundamentalist Baptist pastor’s home. Greg Boyd has been a light for me to point me to a more grace-filled, loving King Jesus. Please let him know that his work is reaching people all over and to please keep up the great Kingdom work. Grace and peace and…

Dear Greg, I want to thank you deeply for the work that you are doing. I have just started reading Crucifixion of the Warrior God (but have deeply followed your work on Reknew) and I agree with all points of your cruciform thesis. I want to encourage you to keep going and keep doing what you are doing. Your work lives in the tension of non-coercive love, humanity’s destructiveness, genuine freedom, scripture’s witness and Christ at the center of it all. i wish your book was around when I was first deeply wrestling with OT violence and also wondering if…

Dear Greg, Thanks so much for writing all of your books, but especially Satan and the Problem of Evil. I am one of those ethnic Mennonites, but did not grow up in the Mennonite church. Instead, I grew up in the Nazarene church. After many years of reading your material, it was after reading the above book that it finally clicked that for most of my childhood I had an Open Theist conception of God. I think this was due to residual Mennonite teaching in my parents and grandparents coupled with the Wesleyan emphasis of my early childhood. But I…

Dear Dr. Boyd, Finished TRINITY AND PROCESS a few days ago. One of the best books I’ve read in a long time. Just wanted to drop a line to congratulate you on the accomplishment of writing a book like this. I found it educational and clear, and I was amazed by the way you were able to explicate the rational arguments so thoroughly. I also should say that I’ve read a number of your other books including SATAN AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL. I’ve long intuited that an open view of God made the most sense of scriptures as well…