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Counter-Cultural Community
Category: General
Tags: Community, Confession, Counter-Culture, Judgment, Kingdom Living, Love, Relationships
Jessica Lucia via Compfight On Tuesday Greg tweeted, “We inevitably acclimate to our environment. We can’t hope to be counter-cultural unless we’re embedded in a counter-cultural community.” Surely almost all Christian leaders would agree with…
God’s Goal for the World
Category: General
Tags: Kingdom Living, Love, Repenting of Religion, Unity
Helga Weber via Compfight In a world that is all about doom and gloom… In a time when we never seem to have enough… In the midst of messages that tell us that we don’t…
Lighten Up: Um…
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Church Signs, Lighten Up, Love
Don’t hurt the people.
Guest Post: Culture War Neighbors by Bonnie Kristian
Category: General
Tags: Bonnie Kristian, Culture, Homosexuality, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Love, Mercy
Matteo Parrini via Compfight The first time I was aware of meeting a gay person, I was 18. I took a summer job waiting tables, and it turned out two of my coworkers were attracted…
On the Language of “Revolution”
Category: General
Tags: Enemy Love, Kingdom, Love, Non-Violence, Pacifism, Revelation, Revolution, Viva la Revolution!
Nick Thompson via Compfight Question: The banner of your website and the thrust of much of your teaching focuses on “revolution.” While I can see a radical call in some of the sayings of Jesus,…
Lighten Up: Eat, Pray, Love
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Kingdom Living, Lighten Up, Love, Naked Pastor, Prayer
What About the Arizona Anti-Gay Bill?
Category: General
Tags: Homosexuality, Judgement, Love, Myth of a Christian Nation, Sin, Social Issues
HumanSeeHumanDo via Compfight The recent anti-gay bill in Arizona which was passed last week by the state’s Legislature and now sits on the desk of the Governor, would allow companies to deny service to or…
What Kind of God Did Jesus Reveal?
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, God, Incarnation, Jesus, Love, Power
Topics: Atonement and The Cross
The ReKnew Manifesto exists to encourage believers and skeptics alike to re-think things they thought they already knew – hence our name, Re-Knew. I am currently working through the theology of the Manifesto in a series…
The Cruciform Center Part 2: How John’s Gospel Reveals a Cruciform God
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Essay, God, Jesus, John's Gospel, Love, Self-Sacrificial Love
Topics: Apologetics, Atonement and The Cross, Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In the previous post, we looked at how the Synoptics illustrate the centrality of the cross. While the Gospel of John varies in its structure and language from the Synoptics, the cross remains at the…
The Image of Cross-Like Love: God’s Self-Portrait, Part 6
Category: Essays
Tags: Cruciform Theology, Enemy Love, Essay, God is Love, Kingdom Living, Love
Topics: Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
In the previous blog I argued that God is cross-like love. In this blog I’d like to take this a step further by demonstrating why the cross alone could function as the definitive revelation of…
At the Start of This New Year
Category: General
Tags: Blessing, God's Presence, Love, New Year, Possibility, Unity
Anthony Easton via Compfight Wishing all of you a year filled with an increasing awareness of God’s presence and a willingness to go where he leads you. May you be challenged every day to love…
Why a “Christocentric” View of God is Inadequate: God’s Self-Portrait, Part 5
Category: Essays
Tags: Character of God, Cruciform Theology, Essay, God, Jesus, Love, ReKnew Manifesto
Topics: Christology, Interpreting Violent Pictures and Troubling Behaviors
I’m currently working through a series of blogs that will flesh out the theology of the ReKnew Manifesto, and I’m starting with our picture of God, since it is the foundation of everything else. So…
Jesus and those “Other People”
Category: General
Tags: Friends, healing, Kingdom, Love, Nicky Marshall, Prejudice
Adele Booysen via Compfight Nicky Marshall is the husband of one wife (Raquel), father or two boys (Nathan and Elijah) and serves as assistant pastor at The Living Room Church in Barbados. Nicky is also…
Lighten Up: Theological Love
Category: General, Lighten Up
Tags: Lighten Up, Love
Um, yeah. Let’s do better than this, shall we?
What the hell are we doing here?
Category: General
Tags: Abortion, Fundamentalism, Kingdom Living, Love, Mercy, Pain, Vulnerability
Meet Collin Simula. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, and is a part of Central Vineyard church. He is a 30-year-old graphic designer, and a happily married father of three. Collin has spent his whole life…
A Word About Sharing the Gospel From an Atheist
Category: General
Tags: Atheism, Christianity, Evangelism, Gospels, Love
Jen J over at A Deeper Family wrote a little piece about how she felt convicted after this video was played during a sermon at her church. She makes some good points. Penn Jillette is a…
Tribalism
Category: General
Tags: Breaking Down Walls, Love, Racism, Sandra Unger, Separation, Sermons, Sexism, Tribalism, Unity
Sandra Unger spoke for Greg while he was on vacation the week after the 4th. In this clip, Sandra explains whats tribes are and how that creates unintended separation between people. In the full sermon, she…
A Lesson in Otherness
Category: General
Tags: Hatred, Love, Prejudice, Racism, Segregation
http://youtu.be/VeK759FF84s Long, long ago, a third grade teacher taught her class a lesson they will never forget. You won’t forget it either. This video is nearly 15 minutes long, but it’s so worth your time….
Greg and Bruxy Pulpit Swap
Category: General
Tags: Anabaptists, Bruxy Cavey, Greg Boyd, Love, The Meeting House, Woodland Hills Church
Greg Boyd and Bruxy Cavey swapped pulpits last weekend. Here are a couple of clips to give you an idea of what each of them offered. You can access the full sermons here and here.