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2025-08-18T10:53:29-05:00

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The Jesus-Looking Kingdom

Last updated on: August 18, 2025 at 10:53 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I continue discussion of Gregory Boyd’s and Scott Boren’s book God Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God (Herald Press) with Chapter 5 The Jesus-Looking Kingdom. If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment. If not, feel free to ask a question. Greg begins the chapter with another story about his early years. He attended Yale Divinity School and was shocked at the many and very different ideas of the kingdom of God that he... Read more

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2025-08-16T10:42:30-05:00

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Capital Punishment Extended?

Last updated on: August 16, 2025 at 10:42 am By Roger E. Olson

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No, this is not about the Democratic state legislators who fled Texas in order to stop the vote on redistricting (gerrymandering). Not that I think they will succeed. No, this is about the state legislators in a Southern US state who are introducing legislation to make child abuse (of a particular kind not to be mentioned here explicitly) a capital crime, subject to execution. I have to wonder what they are thinking. Evidence has mounted that many (mostly) men were... Read more

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2025-08-14T09:53:41-05:00

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“Authentic Christian”

Last updated on: August 14, 2025 at 9:53 am By Roger E. Olson

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Am I an “Authentic Christian?” (Why I Question It) Some people get very upset when I question the authenticity of their “Christianity.” I understand that, but I also don’t. It confuses me because I am not sure that I am authentically Christian. Let me explain. I’ll begin by referring to two very old Christian (church) songs from my childhood. One was “I’m Saved (and I Know that I Am)” and the other was “Lord I Want to Be a Christian... Read more

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2025-08-11T10:43:35-05:00

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Cross-Tinted Glasses?

Last updated on: August 11, 2025 at 10:43 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I take up Chapter 3 of God Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God by Gregory A. Boyd (“Greg”) and M. Scott Boren (Herald Press). If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment. If not, only ask a question. Chapter 3 is entitled Cross-Tinted Glasses. In the previous chapter Greg argued that the cross is the “center of the center” of the Bible and its true interpretation. The cross is where God most deeply revealed... Read more

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2025-08-05T11:16:38-05:00

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Greg Boyd on the “Center of the Center”

Last updated on: August 5, 2025 at 11:16 am By Roger E. Olson

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Here I continue discussion of Greg Boyd’s and Scott Boren’s book God Who Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God (Herald Press, 2025). If you have read Chapter 2, The Center of the Center, you may comment on it. If not, only ask a question. Here, in this chapter, Greg wants to go beyond a “Christocentric” theology to a “cruciform” theology and Christianity and reading of the Bible. According to him (and Boren), “The character of the Father... Read more

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2025-08-04T10:56:11-05:00

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A Big Mistake Trump Just Made

Last updated on: August 4, 2025 at 10:56 am By Roger E. Olson

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Recently US President Donald Trump made a major blunder that affects everyone in the US if not the world. He fired the director of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics because her (or the bureau’s board’s) report on jobs did not satisfy him. He claimed it was “rigged” but gave no evidence. I have long been skeptical of government statistics, especially about inflation. One interlocutor here said I should trust them. I wonder what he thinks now? The result of... Read more

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2025-08-02T11:28:41-05:00

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Southern Baptist Ironies

Last updated on: August 2, 2025 at 11:28 am By Roger E. Olson

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I have never been to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, but I have known professors there and I have had colleagues who graduated from there. And at least one pastor who graduated from SBTS. I’ve had communications with the president of SBTS, Al Mohler, a leader in the so-called “fundamentalist take over” of the Southern Baptist Convention. During the 1980s and into the 1990s, The SBC launched a campaign to replace the trustees of the Southern Baptist seminaries because they were... Read more

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2025-07-31T15:48:25-05:00

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God Who Looks Like Jesus: The One Eternal Word

Last updated on: July 31, 2025 at 3:48 pm By Roger E. Olson

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I skipped Chapters 1, 2, and 3 and jumped from the Introduction to Chapter 4: Literary Crucifixes. Thanks to whomever pointed it out to me. Now I will back up and begin discussing the accidentally skipped chapters of God Who Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God by Gregory Boyd (Greg) and M. Scott Boren (Herald Press, 2025). If you have read Chapter 1: The One Eternal Word, feel free to comment. If not, feel free to ask... Read more

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2025-07-28T15:30:06-05:00

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God Looks Like Jesus: Literary Crucifixes?

Last updated on: July 28, 2025 at 3:30 pm By Roger E. Olson

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Here I continue my discussion of Greg Boyd’s latest book God Who Looks Like Jesus: A Renewed Approach to Understanding God with Chapter 4: Literary Crucifixes. If you have read the chapter, feel free to comment. If not, fee free to ask a question. Here Greg is laying out in one chapter the argument of his two volume work entitled The Crucifixion of the Warrior God. With regard to the Old Testament texts of terror he says “Since God works... Read more

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2025-07-25T10:36:46-05:00

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Why He Voted for Trump

Last updated on: July 25, 2025 at 10:36 am By Roger E. Olson

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After the 2016 presidential election I invited a Christian friend to write a guest post here about why he voted for Trump. Below is his response. I do not know whether he voted for Trump again in 2024, but suspect he did and for the same reasons. I could be wrong. But I have been accused by some of only posting anti-Trump comments here. Obviously they, the critics, have not read my blog long enough to have read this eloquent... Read more

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