, God sometimes displayed his triune, cruciform, agape-love by stooping to accommodate his self-revelation to the fallen and culturally conditioned state of his covenant people (p644). When we look at…
Last fall was one of the strangest periods of my life. About halfway through a three month sabbatical our church in Denver (Bloom) had provided us over the summer, we…
[Note: this is the second in a series of posts working through Greg Boyd’s recently released Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Interpreting the Old Testament’s Violent Portraits of God in…
So one of my favorite things about ministry over the years has been (and is) "talking shop." I LOVE talking shop. Church, to me, is downright fun. The ongoing effort…
Pastor, scholar, and longtime evangelical provocateur Greg Boyd is out to correct what he calls a “lacuna” in the field of biblical interpretation, and that is this: how can we…
The roots of our hatred are always fear. I heard the White Supremacists say, “We’re taking it back” from the objects of their loathing. "Was it ever taken from you?"…
I remember the day it really "clicked" for me. My Greek professor had just finished up his lesson for the day, and, as was his habit, to conclude our time…
I don’t usually like joining the fray when controversy rages in the church. The writer of Proverbs said that “where words are many sin is not absent,” adding that “he…
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