ORT Shorts

In this episode, Dr. Oord continues to discuss the God who empathizes with creaturely suffering without causing or permitting such suffering.  

In this episode, Dr. Oord discusses the growing belief in a relational God who suffers and empathizes with creation and the importance of supplementing this belief with the idea that God is not omnipotent.

In this episode, Dr. Oord interacts with Elaine Robinson's new book Leading with Love:  Spiritual Disciplines for Practical Leadership

In this episode, Dr. Oord interacts with Daniel Dombrowski's new book Process Mysticism as he contrasts the concept of divine foreknowledge from both classical and neo-classical perspectives.

In this episode Dr. Oord recaps the recent Theology Beer Camp gathering with brought together approx. 400 attendees to discuss Open and Relational Theology ideas.

Thanks to all of the attendees and podcasters including Tripp Fuller, host of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast.

In this episode Dr. Oord announces the upcoming ORTLine 24: International, Online Open and Relational Theology Conference which will be held the weekend of Feb. 22-24, 2024.  

In this episode Dr. Oord shares some exciting news about Open and Relational Theology papers to be presented at the upcoming American Academy of Religion (AAR) annual gathering in San Antonio, TX (Nov. 18-21)

In this episode Dr. Oord discusses the problem of evil in light of the current Israel Hamas war.  Dr. Oord references Eric Sentell's article over at Medium which proposes a God of uncontrolling love neither wanted or caused this war, nor is  asleep at the wheel.

In this episode Dr. Oord interacts with Day Ray Griffin's work on reconstructive postmodern theology in a compilation of his essays entitled Process Theology: On Postmodernism, Morality, Pluralism, Eschatology and Demonic Evil.

Sadly, Griffin passed away in 2022, though his voice and influence will live on through this and many other of his important contributions to Postmodern Process Theology.

In this second of two episodes, Dr. Oord continues to unpack and critique the traditional free will defense which has often been appealed to in an effort to reconcile a God of love with the pervasiveness of genuine evil in the world.

To read more about this topic see Dr. Oord's book The Death of Omnipotence and Birth of Amipotence.