Greg Boyd: Apologies & Explanations
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Should We Trust the Bible When it Fails on Page 1?
Greg talks about science and the Bible. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
A Flexible Faith: The Bonnie Kristian Interview
Dan interviews Bonnie Kristian on her new book: A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did Jesus Descend Into Hell?
Greg psychologizes Christ on the cross. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Who has the Authority to Baptize Others?
Grab a bucket for this no-holds barred baptism episode. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Do Near Death Experiences Tell Us About Purgatory?
Greg continues purging his views on purgatory. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Between Here and Heaven: What are Your Views on Purgatory?
Greg purges his views on purgatory. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Does the Bible Say ANYTHING About the Timing of Jesus' Return?
Greg gets into divination and looks into his crystal ball. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Should Churches Select Worship Music?
Greg gets funky in this toe-tapping episode on church music. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Does a Cruciform Hermeneutic Affect Your Reading of Homosexuality Passages?
Greg talks about accommodation, judgement, and homosexuality. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Who Converted You From Calvinism?
Greg tells the story of those strange days in the 80s when he was a pseudo-Calvinist. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Why Does Prayer Feel So Fake?
Greg talks about practicing a prayer discipline and battling against feelings of superficiality in prayer. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Reflections on Mother's Day from a Motherless Boy
Greg talks about growing up without his biological mother and then having an abusive step-mother. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What is the Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA)?
Greg talks about the Aspen School of Missional Apprenticeship (SOMA) and how investing in a discipleship program now can have exponential returns for your ministry for the rest of your life. Link to the program: SOMA Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is the United States Segregated Still?
Greg talks about racism and segregation in the United States and also talks about his time with John Perkins. Books Mentioned: The New Jim Crow One Blood Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Does Spiritual Warfare Actually Work?
Greg talks about Spiritual Warfare and the risks of speculating about things we do not know anything about. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What Do You Mean When You Say Jesus Entered Into Solidarity with Our Sin?
Greg talks about God's passion for, unity with, and pursuit of his beloved bride. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Why Was Jesus So Secretive About his Miracles?
Greg talks about the messianic secret and why Jesus was so hush-hush. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Facebook: ReKnew Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Impromptu Interview with Paul Eddy
Dan interviews Paul Eddy, the man who may have converted Greg Boyd from Calvinism. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is it a Sin to Download Someone's Consciousness?
Greg and Dan make a last ditch effort to save humanity from the rise of the robots. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If You Could've Killed Hitler, Wouldn't You?
Greg challenges the intuitively appealing notion of killing Hitler and thereby preventing the massacre of millions of people. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Does a Jesus-Centric Theology Reduce God?
Greg challenges the traditional starting point of many theologies and defends starting our theology about God's nature and character with what has been revealed about Jesus. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Overflow Episode 2 — Mice, Hot Sauce, Fallen Angels, and Broken Hearts
Dan and Brianna tackle some tough questions: —How do you forgive someone who has broken your heart? —What should we do about house mice? —Why Doesn't God destroy fallen angels? Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What is the Unforgivable Sin?
Greg looks at the ONE thing that can get you kicked out of God's presence. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
What if Jesus was NOT Crucified and Died of Old Age?
Greg looks at what is important about the crucifixion and what isn't. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is it Possible for Unbelievers to Please God?
Greg considers whether God could ever be pleased with something an unbeliever does even though they are not believers. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Overflow Episode 1 — Dust, Flashlights, and Heathens
Dan and Brianna tackle some tough questions: —Is it okay for Christians to be cremated? —How can we preach from the OT with authority? —What should a Christian academic know in a secular school? Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did You Believe in Evolution When You Wrote Letters from a Skeptic?
Greg reflects on how his theology is different now compared to when he wrote Letters from a Skeptic. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Who is Brianna Millett?
Dan interviews one of ReKnew's newest contributors: Brianna Millett. WARNING: Things get a little goofy! Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is It Actually Possible for God to Experience Time Sequentially?
Greg considers how to think about God's relationship to time given that there are apparent paradoxes no matter how one things about it. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Can a Person Come Back to God if They Lose Their Faith?
Greg considers the nature of faith and unbelief and offers some enlightening insight that may surprise you. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Dear Greg: How Do I Actually Experience God's Forgiveness?
Greg responds to an emailer who is wrestling with shame and who wants to experience the forgiveness they believe they have. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
If We Take Verses Where God Changes His Mind Literally, Should We Also Take Verses Where God is Forgetful, Fatigued, and Doesn't Know the Past Literally?
Greg considers a challenge to open theisms about taking verses about God changing his mind literally. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Greg Confronts Nietzsche
Greg goes toe-to-toe with Friedrich Nietzsche in this epic battle of philosophers. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Why Did Jesus Say He Came to Bring a Sword?
Greg considers what Jesus meant when he said he had come to bring a sword. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Do You Recommend Reading the Bible to Kids?
Greg looks at reading the Bible to kids and considers where in the Bible one should start reading. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Where is the Foundation of Our Trust in the Old Testament?
Greg looks at what he considers the foundation of trusting in the Bible. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Can We Trust the Gospel of John?
Greg does some gospel-dating. Was John written closer to the year 50, or closer to the year 1986 as Dan suggests? Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Can I Protect My Kids from the Violence in Media?
Greg looks at ways to help strengthen non-violence in children in a world saturated in violence. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Is Cruciform Hermeneutics Simply Midrash?
Greg considers whether Cruciform Hermeneutics is just a complicated way of seeing what I want to see in the text, and offers nuanced thought for our more complicated hermeneutical challenges. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Are the Prohibitions Against Homosexuality Culturally Relative?
Greg considers if homosexuality is culturally relative or not, and what to do about it. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Can We Tell If a Teaching Was Meant to Transcend the Particular Time & Culture It was Given in?
Greg offers various criteria for assessing what is and is not culturally relative. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Greg Offers Some Book Recommendations
With consternation and gnashing of teeth, Greg shares some of his favorite books. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
How Can I Avoid Being a Theological Jerk?
Greg considers theological buttheads and the misapplications of the gospel and the consequences on our faith. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Why Does Peter Say Lot Was a Righteous Man?
Greg ponders the moral judgements of Lot by Peter in light of Lot's treatment of his daughters. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Am I Being Tested By God? Or Am I Being Attacked By Satan?
Greg ponders whether or not the SOURCE of testing matter, and offers wisdom for dealing with testing. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Episode 300 Behind the Scenes Special!
Greg Boyd fanboys Dan and Peter go behind the scenes to look at the making of the podcast, to talk about Greg behind his back, and to argue about open theism (an argument Dan was winning until Peter sicks his dog on Dan). Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Did the Devil Make Me Do It?
Greg offers wisdom for discerning spiritual activity. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Where Does Forgiveness Fit in a Cruciform Theology?
Greg offers looks at forgiveness in a realm of natural consequences. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
Should We Expose Santa and the Easter Bunny as Frauds to Our Kids?
Greg pulls back the curtain on holiday fraud in this disenchanting roller coaster of an episode. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org
As My Views Change, At What Point Do I Leave My Church?
Greg offers wisdom for conscientious Christians who may be growing out of their church's theological commitments. Send Questions To: Dan: @thatdankentTwitter: @reKnewOrg Email: [email protected] Links: Greg's book:"Crucifixion of the Warrior God" Website: ReKnew.org