In this episode, Dr. Oord interacts with the work of Christopher Fisher who has compiled a 6 volume series entitled God is Open. In volume 2 entitled "The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages upon the Christian Church", Fisher and Edwin Hatch explore the cultural and theological changes which occurred when Christianity encountered the Hellenistic world.

Christopher Fisher will will be one of many authors in attendance at the upcoming ORTLine25 Open and Relational Online Conference which will be held February 20-22, 2025. Registration is now open for this online conference featuring about 30 Open and Relational authors/books.

In this episode Dr. Oord interacts with a section on Christian Nationalism in the book co-authored with Tripp Fuller entitled God After Deconstruction

This will be one of many books discussed and explored further by authors and panelists at the upcoming ORTLine25 Open and Relational Online Conference which will be held February 20-22, 2025. Registration is now open for this online conference featuring about 30 Open and Relational authors/books.

In this episode Dr. Oord continues to interact with the new book from Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw entitled, Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors.

This will be one of many books discussed and explored further by authors and panelists at the upcoming ORTLine25 Open and Relational Online Conference which will be held February 20-22, 2025. Registration is now open for this online conference featuring about 30 Open and Relational authors/books.

In this episode Dr. Oord interacts with the new book from Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw entitled, Surviving God: A New Vision of God through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors.

This will be one of many books discussed and explored further by authors and panelists at the upcoming ORTLine25 Open and Relational Online Conference which will be held February 20-22, 2025. Registration is now open for this online conference featuring about 30 Open and Relational authors/books.

In this episode, Dr. Oord interacts with the new book from John Wesley Dally entitled, Putting Essential Kenosis to the Test: Applying the Wesleyan Quadrilateral

John Dally will be one of 30 authors present to discuss their books at the upcoming ORTLine25 Open and Relational Conference Online held February 20-22. To register visit: https://c4ort.com/ortline25-feb-20-22-2025/

In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the work of Andrew Davis in conversation with Alfred North Whitehead's understanding of the goodness of God and how (not to) understand Whitehead's statement that "God is a little oblivious to morals".

For more on Davis' work on this topic, visit:
https://www.openhorizons.org/andrew-davis-in-munich-on-the-goodness-of-whiteheads-god.html

In this episode Dr. Oord engages with the idea of non dualistic interrelationality in the book The Great Open Dance: A Progressive Christian Theology, written by Jon Paul Sydnor.

Sydnor will be one of about 30 authors featured at the upcoming Open and Relational Theology Online Conference (ORTLine25) February 20-22, 2025.

More more information and to register for this online conference visit:
https://c4ort.com/ortline25-feb-20-22-2025/

In the wake of the recent U.S. election, Dr. Oord discusses the implications of ascribing the titles like 'King of Kings' to God. Those implications include giving properties to God belonging exclusively to Caesar, and affording excess privileges and power to political leaders.

In his book, The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence, Dr. Oord makes a compelling case for abandoning traditional ideas of omnipotence ascribed to God in favor of what he coins, 'amipotence'--the power of uncontrolling love.