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“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

Our central job is not to solve the world’s problems. Our job is to draw our entire life from Christ and manifest that life…

— Gregory A. Boyd