“Just listen to Frederick Douglass, a nineteenth-century slave who taught himself how to read and write, as he expresses his view of how Christian America was: Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Consider these questions: Did Jesus ever suggest by word of example that we should aspire to acquire, let alone take over, the power of… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Jesus came to establish the kingdom of God as a radical alternative to all versions of the kingdom of the world, whether they declare… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The holiness of the kingdom of God must be preserved. If Jesus refused to acknowledge and fight for Israel as God's favored nation- even… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Coming under others has a power to do what laws and bullets and bombs can never do—namely, bring about transformation in an enemy’s heart.… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ life and ministry consistently reveal the humble character of a servant. Though he rightfully owned the entire cosmos, he, by choice, had no… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“Why would these people do this for us?” This is the question the church ought to be continually raising in people’s minds by its… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our “morally superior” way enforced in the world? The question that wins… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Accommodation is a central aspect of the cross-centered interpretation of violent portraits of God that I'm advocating. Like everything else in Cross Vision, this… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif of spiritual… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“many people have trouble passionately loving and living for God because they have a mental picture of him that inspires anything but passion.” — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
“I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry. To a frightful degree, I think, evangelicals fuse the… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
