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Does God HAVE to Love Us?

June 28, 2026
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Posted in Love and Altruism

The “Stuff” of Divinity

June 10, 2026
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Why Systematic Theologians Don’t Prioritize Love

May 13, 2026
8 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Introducing My Movie, Seer!

May 2, 2026
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

A Realistic Theory of Miracles

April 8, 2026
2 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

A Systematic Theology of Love!

March 2, 2026
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Responding to 150+ Amipotence Essays

January 5, 2026
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Ehrman & Wright on the Problem of Evil

December 13, 2025
3 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism

Panentheism and Theoenpanism

November 8, 2025
6 Comments

Posted in Theology and Science

Ex Nihilo and Other Creation Theories

October 2, 2025
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Posted in Theology and Science

Where Was God in the Shootings?

September 1, 2025
6 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Augustine’s View of God & Time

August 31, 2025
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Posted in Love and Altruism

The Spirit as a Relational Person Who Feels

August 8, 2025
2 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Teen Mania Theology – Unreached Peoples?

August 3, 2025
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

The Amipotent God is Neither Externally Nor Voluntarily Limited

July 23, 2025
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Introducing Gino-Theology

July 13, 2025
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Eleven Ways to Rethink Religion in Light of Science

June 13, 2025
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Posted in Theology and Science

A UNIVERSAL, INCORPOREAL, SPIRIT

June 3, 2025
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

God’s Essential and Contingent Attributes

March 23, 2025
14 Comments

Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

What KIND of God Exists?

March 11, 2025
11 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Reasons to Think God Exists

February 25, 2025
10 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Open and Relational Biblical Issues

January 27, 2025
2 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Gloria M. Coffin – Queer Ally and Uncontrolling Love Advocate

January 20, 2025
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink, John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene

What is Amipotence?

January 7, 2025
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Amipotence vs. Omnipotence – John Cobb

December 29, 2024
3 Comments

Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink, Open and Relational Theology

Radical “Be It Unto Me” Theology

December 11, 2024
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

Thank Goodness, God Can’t Control Elections!

November 6, 2024
13 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Five Kinds of Biblical Inspiration

October 28, 2024
10 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Six Ideas that Helped My Queer Trial

October 2, 2024
2 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

God and Climate Change

September 22, 2024
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Posted in Theology and Science

Learning How to See… in Photographs

September 5, 2024
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

Imitating God

September 2, 2024
One Comment

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Answering Questions After the Trial

August 11, 2024
2 Comments

Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

My Church Queer Trial Verdict

July 29, 2024
13 Comments

Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

What Does it Mean to Love Queer People?

June 23, 2024
3 Comments

Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene

My Defense

June 14, 2024
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Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

I Face a Trial for Being LGBTQ+ Affirming

May 27, 2024
21 Comments

Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene

Basics of Open & Relational Theology

May 8, 2024
2 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

The Bible After Deconstruction

May 1, 2024
One Comment

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

After Certainty and Absolute Mystery

April 14, 2024
2 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture, Uncategorized

The Opening to God After Deconstruction

March 22, 2024
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink, Open and Relational Theology

Trump and Deconstruction

March 11, 2024
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Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Trump and Deconstruction

March 11, 2024
5 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Barbie and Our Purpose

February 25, 2024
2 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Reviewing “The Deconstruction of Christianity”

February 16, 2024
12 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Queer Deconstruction

January 30, 2024
No Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Why We Deconstruct: Evolution, COVID, & Climate Change

January 10, 2024
One Comment

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture, Theology and Science

Evil and Deconstruction

December 28, 2023
3 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Doubt and Deconstruction

November 12, 2023
12 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture, Uncategorized

Responding to Miracle Questions

October 27, 2023
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Theology and Science

Thomas à Kempis and Imitating God

October 16, 2023
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

Is the World Eternal? Does it Predate God?

September 29, 2023
6 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Everlasting Creating and Essential Love

September 15, 2023
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Posted in Theology and Science

Three Bold Moves

September 5, 2023
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Everlasting Creating and Love Winning

August 9, 2023
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Posted in Love and Altruism

Responding to Ryan Patrick McLaughlin (1/3)

July 7, 2023
4 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

The Worship Problem

June 28, 2023
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

My Response to Sanders on Omnipotence

June 6, 2023
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology

The “Almighty” Problem in Scripture

May 26, 2023
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Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

7 Reasons Omnipotence Leads to Atheism

May 15, 2023
4 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Can God Decide to Stop Giving Life?

May 1, 2023
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

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

April 21, 2023
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Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene

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

April 20, 2023
3 Comments

Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Love Before Power

March 13, 2023
No Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Amipotence

February 24, 2023
2 Comments

Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene, Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

God’s Nature Qualifies Omnipotence

February 10, 2023
3 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Mistranslating Pantokrater as “Omnipotent”

January 24, 2023
4 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Omnipotence Qualified

January 2, 2023
6 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Omnipotence Not in Scripture

November 27, 2022
6 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

The Death of Omnipotence

November 16, 2022
11 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

A Theology of Love – 50 Years Later

October 28, 2022
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Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene, Love and Altruism

Keith Ward and a God of Love

October 16, 2022
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

The Bible Says Hell Glorifies God?

September 29, 2022
7 Comments

Posted in Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Divine Glory Be Damned!

September 23, 2022
4 Comments

Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink

Statistics & Free Will

September 6, 2022
No Comments

Posted in Theology and Science

What is Uncontrolling Love? What About Therapy?

July 30, 2022
2 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology, Theology and Science

“Another Love Book?”

July 14, 2022
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Posted in ...and the Kitchen Sink, Love and Altruism

Love is More than Desire or Devotion

June 1, 2022
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Obstacles to Putting Love First

April 13, 2022
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Posted in Love and Altruism

God’s Pluriform Love for Us

March 14, 2022
6 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

The Story Behind Pluriform Love

February 27, 2022
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Theology and Love… on Valentines

February 11, 2022
One Comment

Posted in Love and Altruism

Love and the Timeless God

January 28, 2022
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Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

Six Dimensions to the Problem of Evil

January 17, 2022
5 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Essential Hesed

January 6, 2022
No Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

The Primacy of Love

January 1, 2022
One Comment

Posted in Love and Altruism

Augustine’s God Doesn’t Love Us

November 28, 2021
5 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism

God’s Omniscience Grows

November 1, 2021
8 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

God’s Knowing Isn’t Causal

September 13, 2021
10 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Theology and Science

Partnering with God

August 31, 2021
No Comments

Posted in John Wesley, Holiness, and the Church of the Nazarene, Open and Relational Theology

God’s Power in Open and Relational Theology

July 28, 2021
2 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

I Need a Love Framework

July 16, 2021
2 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism, Open and Relational Theology

The God I Reject

June 8, 2021
2 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Who is Open and Relational?

May 13, 2021
11 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Receiving Love

April 30, 2021
3 Comments

Posted in Love and Altruism

Life (and God) is Like a Movie

April 14, 2021
No Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

God as Emotional Friend

March 31, 2021
3 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Why We Embrace Open and Relational Theology

February 15, 2021
7 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

Is Progress Possible?

January 15, 2021
5 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology, Postmodern Philosophy, Theology, and Culture

Open Theism and Divine Limitations

December 9, 2020
4 Comments

Posted in Open and Relational Theology

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.