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Does God HAVE to Love Us?

The “Stuff” of Divinity

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Introducing My Movie, Seer!

A Realistic Theory of Miracles

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Responding to 150+ Amipotence Essays

Ehrman & Wright on the Problem of Evil

Panentheism and Theoenpanism

Ex Nihilo and Other Creation Theories

Where Was God in the Shootings?

Augustine’s View of God & Time

The Spirit as a Relational Person Who Feels

Teen Mania Theology – Unreached Peoples?

The Amipotent God is Neither Externally Nor Voluntarily Limited

Introducing Gino-Theology

Eleven Ways to Rethink Religion in Light of Science

A UNIVERSAL, INCORPOREAL, SPIRIT

God’s Essential and Contingent Attributes

What KIND of God Exists?

Reasons to Think God Exists

Open and Relational Biblical Issues

Gloria M. Coffin – Queer Ally and Uncontrolling Love Advocate

What is Amipotence?

Amipotence vs. Omnipotence – John Cobb

Radical “Be It Unto Me” Theology

Thank Goodness, God Can’t Control Elections!

Five Kinds of Biblical Inspiration

Six Ideas that Helped My Queer Trial

God and Climate Change

Learning How to See… in Photographs

Imitating God

Answering Questions After the Trial

My Church Queer Trial Verdict

What Does it Mean to Love Queer People?

I Face a Trial for Being LGBTQ+ Affirming

Basics of Open & Relational Theology

The Bible After Deconstruction

After Certainty and Absolute Mystery

The Opening to God After Deconstruction

Trump and Deconstruction

Trump and Deconstruction

Barbie and Our Purpose

Reviewing “The Deconstruction of Christianity”

Queer Deconstruction

Why We Deconstruct: Evolution, COVID, & Climate Change

Evil and Deconstruction

Doubt and Deconstruction

Responding to Miracle Questions

Thomas à Kempis and Imitating God

Is the World Eternal? Does it Predate God?

Everlasting Creating and Essential Love

Three Bold Moves

Everlasting Creating and Love Winning

Responding to Ryan Patrick McLaughlin (1/3)

The Worship Problem

My Response to Sanders on Omnipotence

The “Almighty” Problem in Scripture

7 Reasons Omnipotence Leads to Atheism

Can God Decide to Stop Giving Life?

Disingenuous: An Open Letter to the Friedemans, Jared Henry, and the Holiness Partnership

Why the Church of the Nazarene Should be Fully LGBTQ+ Affirming

Love Before Power

God’s Nature Qualifies Omnipotence

Mistranslating Pantokrater as “Omnipotent”

Omnipotence Qualified

Omnipotence Not in Scripture

The Death of Omnipotence

A Theology of Love – 50 Years Later

Keith Ward and a God of Love

The Bible Says Hell Glorifies God?

Divine Glory Be Damned!

Statistics & Free Will

What is Uncontrolling Love? What About Therapy?

“Another Love Book?”

Love is More than Desire or Devotion

Obstacles to Putting Love First

God’s Pluriform Love for Us

The Story Behind Pluriform Love

Theology and Love… on Valentines

Love and the Timeless God

Six Dimensions to the Problem of Evil

Essential Hesed

The Primacy of Love

Augustine’s God Doesn’t Love Us

God’s Omniscience Grows

God’s Knowing Isn’t Causal

Partnering with God

God’s Power in Open and Relational Theology

I Need a Love Framework

The God I Reject

Who is Open and Relational?

Receiving Love

Life (and God) is Like a Movie

God as Emotional Friend

Why We Embrace Open and Relational Theology

Is Progress Possible?

Open Theism and Divine Limitations

About

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho.

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