I have a very complex (and often stormy!) emotional life. Laughter, tears, and deep longing... all of that can happen in the first 15 minutes of my day. It can…
In the last post we saw that the Principle of Redemptive Withdrawal (PRW), that is, divinely ordained cause-and-effect, is not the only way to explain the violence we see depicted…
Well friends, it’s been a bit since I’ve posted about Greg Boyd’s CWG, so let’s do a little review before we jump into the next principle. There are two foundational…
Let’s recap where we’ve been thus far: God’s “breathing” of the Old Testament witness is a dialectical rather than unilateral process. That is to say, God does not simply act…
, 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…
[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…
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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