In this episode, Dr. Oord re-engages with the new book from Michael Rose entitled, Made By Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith in Light of Relentless Love.

Made by Love, for Love invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding.

Drawing from the evolutionary vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Open and Relational theology of Thomas Jay Oord, this book reveals a God whose very nature is Love—noncoercive, relational, persistent, and ripe with creative potential.

In this episode Dr. Oord re-engages with Steve Watson's new book entitled All Flesh Shalom: Larger, Freer, More Loving Readings of the Good News of Jesus

From the book description: So many of the forms of Christianity we have inherited have disappointed us. We’ve been offered a faith that seems to make people smaller, more rigid, and more violent. This is why James Baldwin once wrote, “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

In this groundbreaking work of constructive Christian theology, Steve Watson takes Baldwin’s challenge seriously. He dissects some of white Western Christianity’s most narrow and misguided readings of the life and teaching of Jesus. And in conversation with leading open and relational and postcolonial, liberation theologians, Steve explores ways we can engage major themes in the gospels in the service of a larger, freer, more loving faith.

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the new book from Michael Rose entitled, Made By Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith in Light of Relentless Love.

Made by Love, for Love invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding.

Drawing from the evolutionary vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Open and Relational theology of Thomas Jay Oord, this book reveals a God whose very nature is Love—noncoercive, relational, persistent, and ripe with creative potential.