Greg Boyd is an internationally recognized theologian, preacher, teacher and author.

He has been featured on the front page of The New York Times, CNN and the BBC along with numerous other television and radio venues. He has authored and co-authored 22 books.

Greg comes on the show to talk through his new recent book 'Cross Vision' where he argues that it is the crucifixion of Jesus Christ which enables us to make sense of Old Testament violence.

Show Notes - The Big Ideas

• Moving from a place of justifying OT violence to looking for deeper meaning
• Is the OT God a god of genocide?
• Understanding Ancient Near Eastern context
• Cruciform Hermeneutic
• A missionary God
• How to read the OT
• The cross being simultaneously outrageously beuatiful and revoltingly ugly
• How do we preach the from the Old Testament

This episode is loaded wth some pretty incredible thoughts. Strap yourselves in.