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May 12, 2023: Baptist News Global: The hidden battle in Christian higher education: A conversation with Scott Okamoto
One of the most under-the-radar battles going on within American evangelicalism today is a civil war between Christian higher education and the local church.
One of the most under-the-radar battles going on within American evangelicalism today is a civil war between Christian higher education and the local church.
golibe omenaka
June 18, 2019: CalMatters: How Redding, California, became an unlikely epicenter of modern Christian culture
God brought Golibé Omenaka to Northern California. The journey started in Manchester, England, when he encountered the teachings of a Redding-based megachurch called Bethel, and took off when a friend prophesied that God had called Omenaka to Bethel.
God brought Golibé Omenaka to Northern California. The journey started in Manchester, England, when he encountered the teachings of a Redding-based megachurch called Bethel, and took off when a friend prophesied that God had called Omenaka to Bethel.
bradley onishi
Jan 24, 2023: Religion News: How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism
Bradley Onishi became a Christian at age 14 when his eighth grade girlfriend invited him to a Bible study at her church in Yorba Linda, California, just south of Los Angeles. Ten years later, he would serve as its youth minister.
Over that decade, he writes in his new book, “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — And What Comes Next,” Onishi grew to see his faith as less about Jesus and more about perpetuating a certain myth of the United States, one that he says forms the bedrock of white Christian nationalism.
Bradley Onishi became a Christian at age 14 when his eighth grade girlfriend invited him to a Bible study at her church in Yorba Linda, California, just south of Los Angeles. Ten years later, he would serve as its youth minister.
Over that decade, he writes in his new book, “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — And What Comes Next,” Onishi grew to see his faith as less about Jesus and more about perpetuating a certain myth of the United States, one that he says forms the bedrock of white Christian nationalism.
thomas Jay oord
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Sept 26, 2023: Scott E Olson: Relational Theology Yes; Panentheism No
Most recently, American theologian Thomas Jay Oord has worked on his own version of relational theology that seems to stand somewhere between open theism and process theology. April 7, 2020: Thomas J Oord: Adventist Today: We Should Lament and Explain COVID-19: A Response to N.T. Wright
Apr 15, 2015: Paperback Theology: How Do You Fire Thomas Jay Oord?
Oord is one of the highest profile, and well respected theologians in the Church of the Nazarene. He’s a brilliant and popular teacher, a prolific writer, and is well respected among his peers–including theologians of all stripes. Oord has also been dedicated to the COTN serving on all kinds of committees and boards, providing theological/philosophical defense some of their signature doctrines. Apr 2015: Christianity Today: Pro-Evolution Tenured Professor Laid Off From Nazarene University Theology professor Thomas Jay Oord, who has taught at Northwest Nazarene University (NNU) in Idaho, for over a decade, was laid off at the end of last month. Jan 21, 2010: Reformed Nazarene: False Teaching Welcomed At NorthWest Nazarene University
Northwest Nazarene University has its own Dr. Tom Oord as a professor there. He is known for his support and advocacy of the twin heresies of Open Theism and Process Theology. At the lecture, you will see Dr. Oord later towards the end as he walks around with a microphone for questions for the audience. I had been to a lecture by Dr. Oord at Eastern Nazarene College, where he spoke as a guest speaker. I challenged him on some issues related to death and how it came into the world, and I recall that his response to me when I quoted Romans 5:12 as the reason why death came into the world, was that he disagreed with me on that answer. Dr. Oord also supports evolution and does not believe in the biblical account of creation. If I am wrong, I hope he can correct me on that. (Disclaimer: not all professors at NNU have bought into this emergent/contemplative ideology, but NNU is a hotbed of emergent and contemplative false teachings). |
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. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought and Evangelical theology. Oord was raised on a farm in the small farming community of Othello, Washington. He attended Northwest Nazarene College and graduated in 1988. After four years in pastoral ministry in Walla Walla, Washington, he attended Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri. Upon graduating with a Masters of Divinity, he attended Claremont Graduate University in Southern California. He earned a Masters of Arts in Religion and a Ph.D. at Claremont. While pursuing graduate studies, he was a part-time associate pastor in Bloomington, Ca. Oord taught philosophy at Eastern Nazarene College for three years. In 2002, he returned to the Northwest to teach at his undergraduate alma mater. He teaches undergraduate and graduate students at Northwest Nazarene today. Oord is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene and attends The Table Church of the Nazarene. He serves in various consulting and administrative roles for academic institutions, scholarly projects, and research teams. He and his wife, Cheryl, have three daughters. |
LARRY OSBORNE
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Sept 28, 2022: Church Leader: LARRY OSBORNE & NORTH COAST CHURCH: Flexibility, simplicity in financing at the forefront
North Coast Church in Vista, Calif., is one of the 20 largest churches in the United States. It also consistently ranks among the country’s fastest-growing, most influential churches. But it all started humbly — as so many massive churches do — as a home Bible Study, in 1976. Aug 6, 2021: Christian Post: Wife of California megachurch pastor, mother of 5 dies by suicide
In a sermon message preached to the congregation this past Sunday, North Coast Church Pastor Larry Osborne told congregants about the death of 28-year-old Paige Hilken, the wife of one of North Coast's teaching pastors, Christopher Hilken. Christopher Hilken is also the leader of the church’s young adult program called “The Jordan.” Apr 7, 2015: Christianity Today: 20 Truths from Thriving in Babylon by Larry Osborne Last week, Larry Osborne's newest book was released. Thriving in Babylon looks at Daniel in Babylon and shows us how Christians can thrive in our changing cultural context that is becoming more and more challenge to the Christian faith, especially in certain places. |
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