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ORT Shorts — 301 episodes

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Ep. 301: The Problem of Good, Miracles, and God's Will

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Ep. 300: Solving the Problem of Evil

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Ep. 299: Amipotent Providence

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Ep. 298: Ever Creator

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Ep. 297: Creatio Ex Nihilo and Other Creation Theories

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Ep. 296: The Proper Role of Mystery

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Ep. 295: One, Everlasting, All-Knowing Spirit

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Ep. 294: The Spirit is a Relational Person Who Feels

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Ep. 293: Amipotent Spirit

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Ep. 292: God is Not Omnipotent

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Ep. 291: Becoming Spirit

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Ep. 290: Universal, Incorporeal Spirit

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Ep. 289: A Loving God

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Ep. 288: Reasons to Believe

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Ep: 287 - First of Its Kind

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Ep. 286: Evolution and Divine Love

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Ep. 285: God Looks Like Jesus

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Ep. 284: Thinking About God with Keith Ward

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Ep. 283: Prayer and the Brain

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Ep. 282: Is it God's Will?

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Ep. 281: The Misunderstood Power of God

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Ep. 280: Open and Relational Parenting

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Ep. 279: Death from an Open and Relational Perspective

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Ep. 278: Open and Relational Prayer

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Ep. 277: Pre-Theology Beer Camp

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Ep. 276: Exploring Divine Hiddenness

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Ep. 275: N.T. Wright and Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 274: Tripp Fuller and Divine Self Investment

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Ep. 273: A Beautiful Hope

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Ep. 272: The Miraculous Nature of Our World

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Ep. 271: A Good God and an All-Powerful God are Mutually Exclusive

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Ep. 270: Science and the Sacred

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Ep. 269: God and the Pandemic

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Ep. 268: Amipotence and Weak Theology

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Ep. 267: Authoritative vs. Nurturant

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Ep. 266: The Old Testament

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Ep. 265: Uncontrolled Worship

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Ep. 264: Returning to the Way of Persuasion

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Ep. 263: Neural Relational Amipotence

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Ep. 262: Keith Ward on Karl Barth

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Ep. 261: Pediatrics and Amipotence

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Ep. 260: Whitehead and Teilhard

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Ep. 259: The Uncontrolling Love of God Conference (UK)

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Ep. 258: An Open and Relational Queer Theology

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Ep. 257: ORTCON25

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Ep. 256: The Prevenience of Amipotence

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Ep. 255: Love Without Qualification

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Ep. 254: Even God Can't Have It All

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Ep. 253: Is God a Hypocrite?

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Ep. 252: The Politics of Amipotence

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Ep. 251: The Holy Spirit is Amipotence Manifested

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Ep. 250: A Solution to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness

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Ep. 249: Amipotence in the Wesleyan Tradition

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Ep. 248: Kelly James Clark and The Power of Love

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Ep. 247: Suffering and the Amipotent God

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Ep. 246: Good Lord Willing

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Ep. 245: What the World Needs Now...Amipotence

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Ep. 244: ORTCON25

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Ep. 243: A Theology of the Microbiome

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Ep. 242: The Problem of Hellenization

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Ep. 241: Overcoming Christian Nationalism

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Ep. 240: God's Not Responsible

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Ep. 239: Surviving God

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Ep. 238: Putting Essential Kenosis to the Test

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Ep. 237: Oblivious to Morals

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Ep. 236: Non Dualism

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Ep. 235: King of Kings?

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Ep. 234: Preaching Politics

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Ep. 233: How Should We See God?

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Ep. 232: The Relational Power of God

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Ep. 231: Love After Deconstruction

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Ep. 230: Christ's Cosmic Table

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Ep. 229: Naturalistic Theism

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Ep. 228: Non Binary Theology

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Ep. 227: Joseph Bracken

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Ep. 226: Go Back to Galilee by Nichole Torbitzky

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Ep. 225: Christian Nationalism

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Ep. 224: Redeeming Violent Verses in the Bible

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Ep. 223: Future Needs a Big Kiss by Lukas Targosz

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Ep. 222: To Be Emptied, by Vikki Randall

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Ep. 221: Saida Mirsadri and a Process Relational Worldview

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Ep. 220: Saida Mirsadri on Muhammad Iqbal

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Ep. 219: Overcoming Christian Nationalism

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Ep. 218: Opting out of Politics?

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Ep. 217: Open Theism

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Ep. 216: Except Through Me?

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Ep. 215: ORT from Muslim and Christian Perspectives

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Ep. 214: Judaism is About Love

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Ep. 213: The God Who Trusts

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Ep. 212: ORTCON 2024 Pre-Registration

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Ep. 211: Deconstruction Firsthand

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Ep. 210: The Underbelly of Novelty

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Ep. 209: Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God

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Ep. 208: God After Deconstruction

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Ep. 207: Trauma-Sensitive Theology

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Ep. 206: God and the World

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Ep. 205: Essence and Experience

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Ep. 204: Preaching Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 203: A Finite God

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Ep. 202: Building the Basileia

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Ep. 201: Register for ORTLine24

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Ep. 200: Indigo

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Ep. 199: Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity

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Ep. 198: From Omnipotence to Amipotence

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Ep. 197: God After Deconstruction, Drew University

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Ep. 196: God Acts With the End in Mind

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Ep. 195: The Power of the God Who Can't

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Ep. 194: Making Sense of Religions

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Ep. 193: God After Deconstruction Online Class

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Ep. 192: Eternal Life

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Ep. 191: John B. Cobb Jr. - Christian Theologian

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Ep. 190: Andrew Davis and Cosmotheology

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Ep. 189: God Needs Creaturely Cooperation (Part 2)

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Ep. 188: God Needs Creaturely Cooperation (Part 1)

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Ep. 187: Camping with Kierkegaard

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Ep. 186: ORTLine 24

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Ep. 185: God Empathizes with Our Suffering (Part 2)

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Ep. 184: God Empathizes with Our Suffering (Part 1)

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Ep. 183: Leading with Love

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Ep. 182: God's Knowledge of the Future

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Ep. 181: Theology Beer Camp Recap

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Ep. 180: ORTLine 24

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Ep. 179: Open and Relational Theology at AAR 2023

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Ep. 178: The Israel Hamas War and the Problem of Evil

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Ep. 177: Reconstructive Postmodern Theology

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Ep. 176 - The Traditional Free Will Defense (Part 2)

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Ep. 175: The Traditional Free Will Defense (Part 1)

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Ep. 174: Sorry, That Won't Work for Me

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Ep. 173: Don Viney Reviews Omnipotence

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Ep. 172: Creeds and Worship From an Open and Relational Perspective

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Ep. 171: The 12 Steps of Uncontrolling Love

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Ep: 170: Creating Women's Theology

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Ep. 169: Christianity for People Who Don't Like Christianity

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Ep. 168: Teilhard and Whitehead Conference

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Ep. 167: Doctoral Program in Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 166: Theology Beer Camp

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Ep. 165: The Divine Change We Need

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Ep. 164: Girardian Intersections Conference

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Ep. 163: Unblaming God

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Ep. 162: Ilia Delio's View of God

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Ep: 161: Kenarchy and Roger Haydon Mitchell

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Ep. 160: John B. Cobb Jr's Confessions

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Ep. 159: Peter Enns and Curveball

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Ep. 158: Keith Ward's Adventures in Belief

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Ep. 157: The Politics of Omnipotence

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Ep: 156: El Shaddai and Sabaoth

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Ep. 155: Zack Hunt and Godbreathed

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Ep. 154: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki and The Psalms

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Ep. 153: The Death of Omnipotence

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Ep. 152: ORTCON23

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Ep. 151: Imitating God

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Ep. 150: Love Does Not Control Conference

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Ep. 149: Love Does Not Control

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Ep. 148: Near Death Experiences

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Ep. 147: Creator & Creatures (7) are Valuable in Themselves

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Ep. 146: Emil Brunner's Theology of Love

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Ep. 145: Creator & Creatures (6) Have Needs

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Ep. 145: Creator & Creatures (5) are Free Agents

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Ep. 143: Creator & Creatures (4) are Experiencers

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Ep. 142: Creator & Creatures (3) Promote Well-Being

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Ep. 141: Creating a Better World

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Ep. 140: Creator & Creatures (2) Experience the Ongoing Flow of Time

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Ep. 139: Creator & Creatures Give & Receive

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Ep. 138: Are You the Unchurched?

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Ep. 137: William Paul Young says, "God is not in control"

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Ep. 136: Muslim & Christian Open & Relational Theology

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Ep. 135: A Theology of Consent

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Ep. 133: The Problem of Good

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Ep. 132 - Gary Chartier Loves Creation

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Ep. 131: Relentless Love

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Ep. 131: Theology of Love Conference

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Ep. 130: Uncontroling and Freely Loving

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Ep. 129: Imitating Love and Loving by Nature

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Ep. 128: Suffering and Intuiting Love

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Ep. 127: Cooperating and Forgiving Love

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Ep. 126: Unlimited and Creatively Responsive Love

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Ep. 125: Where is an Omnipotent God in the Bible?

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Ep. 124: A Different View of Divine Power

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Ep. 123: The Final Three Myths and Realities about Healing

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Ep. 122: Still More Myths and Realities about Healing

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Ep. 121: Three Additional Myths and Realities about Healing

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Ep. 120: Three More Myths and Realities about Healing

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Ep. 119: Three Myths and Realities about Healing

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Ep. 118: Anna Case-Winters and Curtis Holtzen

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Ep. 117: "Power & the God of Love" Conference

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Ep. 116: "Along Side of" Love

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Ep. 115: "Because of" Love

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Ep. 114: "In Spite of" Love

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Ep. 113: A Personal God?

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Ep. 112: The Pain Killer

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Ep. 111: Church as a Dynamic Life-System

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Ep. 110: Power & The God of Love

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Ep. 109: God's Plans

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Ep. 108: Meaning and Purpose

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Ep. 107: Artistic Sensibility

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Ep. 106: Perfect Being Theology

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Ep. 105: Science and Philosophy

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Ep. 104: Jesus in Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 103: Relational Reality

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Ep. 102: Social Sciences

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Ep. 101: Our Intuitions

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Ep. 100: Celebrating 100 Episodes

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Ep. 99: The Logic of Love

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Ep. 98: Scripture in Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 97: Answering Big Questions

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Ep. 96: The Elephant is Running

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Ep. 95: Creation in Love

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Ep. 94: Ann Pederson and Creation Jazz

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Ep. 93: Hesed

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Ep. 92: Native American Theology

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Ep. 91: Ilia Delio and Roman Catholicism

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Ep. 90: The Classical God is Simple

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Ep. 89 - The Classical God is Impassible

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Ep. 88: The Classical God is Immutable

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Ep. 87: The Classical God is Timeless

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Ep. 86: The Core of Classical Theology

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Ep. 85: Feminist Process Theologies

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Ep. 84 - Open and Relational Basics

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Ep. 83: Divine Revelation

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Ep. 82: A Jewish Process Theology

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Ep. 81: Do I Stay Christian?

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Ep. 80: Donna Bowman on an Open Future

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Ep. 79: Organic Islamic Humanism

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Ep. 78: Divine Justice as Restorative

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Ep. 77: Wild Nature in Process

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Ep. 76: God Everlastingly Loves & Creates Out of Creation

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Ep. 75: Essential Hesed

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Ep. 74: A Flourishing Life

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Ep. 73: Keith Ward's Open World

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Ep. 72: A Pet Rock

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Ep. 71: God as a Good Parent

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Ep. 70: God Creates By Speaking

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Ep. 69: Partnering Past a Pandemic

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Ep. 68: Why Is There Suffering?

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Ep. 67: Amipotence 2.0

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Ep. 66: A Limited God?

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Ep. 65: Must God Love?

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Ep. 64: Jesus in Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 63: Clark Pinnock

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Ep. 62: Keith Ward Responds to David Bentley Hart

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Ep. 61: The Center for Open & Relational Theology

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Ep. 60: The Evangelical Unbound God

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Ep. 59: Open & Relational Theology & Deconstruction

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Ep. 58: ORTLine Books

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Ep. 57: Possibilities

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Ep. 56: The Science and Philosophy of Free Will

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Ep. 55: Separated from God?

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Ep. 54: Love in Judaism

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Ep. 53: God Can't Prevent Trauma Single-handedly

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Ep. 52: Augustine on Love

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Ep. 51: Ryan Lambros on Healing

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Ep. 50: Picking Up Your Cross

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Ep. 49: Organisms and Aggregates

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Ep. 48: Life Changing Theology

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Ep. 47: Anthropomorphism

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Ep. 46: Is God's Will Settled?

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Ep. 45: Anna Case-Winters on Incarnation

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Ep. 44: Two ORT Conferences

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Ep. 43: Theologies of Love

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Ep. 42: Conspiring Prayer

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Ep. 41: Writing with God

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Ep. 40: Do All Good Christians Go to Church?

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Ep. 39: Open for Discovery

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Ep. 38: A Feminist Theory of Atonement

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Ep. 37: The Mechanics of Omniscience

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Ep. 36: Boundless Love

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Ep. 35: Openness of the Future

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Ep. 34: Islamic Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 33: The Best Box

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Ep. 32: Dancing with God

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Ep. 31: Relational Love as the Image of God

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Ep. 30: Charles Wesley's Hymn 28

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Ep. 29: The Limitation of God's Power

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Ep. 28: Embracing a Beautiful God

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Ep. 27: Providence

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Ep. 26: God's Power

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Ep. 25: Circling the Elephant

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Ep. 24: Is God an Entity?

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Ep. 23: Pentecostalism and ORT

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Ep. 22: Going Deeper in ORT - Upcoming Class

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Ep. 21: Sexuality, An Interesting Conference

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Ep. 20: Process? Open? Relational?

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Ep. 19: Prevenient Grace

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Ep. 18: Open and Relational Christology

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Ep. 17: The Power of Love

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Ep. 16: Amipotent

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Ep. 15: Foreknowledge and Ice Cream

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Ep. 14: A Personal Testimony

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Ep. 13: Introduction to Open and Relational Theology

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Ep. 12: God's Partnership is Yeasty

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Ep. 11: God Has No Hands

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Ep. 10: Partnering with God

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Ep. 9: Transcendence

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Ep. 8: In your book were written the days

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Ep. 7: Inerrancy

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Ep. 6: Apocalypse

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Ep. 5: Parenting

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Ep 4: The Elect

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Ep. 3: The Openness of God

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Ep. 1: God Trusts

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Ep. 2: Divine Enjoyment