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By Thomas Jay Oord

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Open and Relational theology just makes sense... at least that's what most people say when they discover it. This podcast offers 3-minute short episodes -- "shorts" -- on this perspective on God. Episodes offer insights, inspiration, and information, and a few are posted each week. Dr. Thomas Jay Oord hosts this podcast. He's a best-selling author, world-renown speaker, and leading voice in this burgeoning field. Dr. Oord directs a Center and Doctoral Program in Open and Relational Theology too. Subscribe if you're tired of conventional theology and want a perspective that both makes sense and fits life as we live it.

Episode Date
Ep. 303: The Death of Supernaturalism
May 26, 2026
Ep. 302: Schleiermacher and Whitehead
May 20, 2026
Ep. 301: The Problem of Good, Miracles, and God's Will
May 02, 2026
Ep. 300: Solving the Problem of Evil
Apr 28, 2026
Ep. 299: Amipotent Providence
Apr 24, 2026
Ep. 298: Ever Creator
Apr 21, 2026
Ep. 297: Creatio Ex Nihilo and Other Creation Theories
Apr 17, 2026
Ep. 296: The Proper Role of Mystery
Apr 14, 2026
Ep. 295: One, Everlasting, All-Knowing Spirit
Apr 10, 2026
Ep. 294: The Spirit is a Relational Person Who Feels
Apr 07, 2026
Ep. 293: Amipotent Spirit
Apr 03, 2026
Ep. 292: God is Not Omnipotent
Mar 31, 2026
Ep. 291: Becoming Spirit
Mar 27, 2026
Ep. 290: Universal, Incorporeal Spirit
Mar 24, 2026
Ep. 289: A Loving God
Mar 20, 2026
Ep. 288: Reasons to Believe
Mar 17, 2026
Ep: 287 - First of Its Kind
Mar 13, 2026
Ep. 286: Evolution and Divine Love
Oct 24, 2025
Ep. 285: God Looks Like Jesus
Oct 21, 2025
Ep. 284: Thinking About God with Keith Ward
Oct 17, 2025
Ep. 283: Prayer and the Brain
Oct 14, 2025
Ep. 282: Is it God's Will?
Oct 10, 2025
Ep. 281: The Misunderstood Power of God
Oct 07, 2025
Ep. 280: Open and Relational Parenting
Oct 03, 2025
Ep. 279: Death from an Open and Relational Perspective
Sep 30, 2025
Ep. 278: Open and Relational Prayer
Sep 26, 2025
Ep. 277: Pre-Theology Beer Camp
Sep 23, 2025
Ep. 276: Exploring Divine Hiddenness
Sep 19, 2025
Ep. 275: N.T. Wright and Open and Relational Theology
Sep 17, 2025
Ep. 274: Tripp Fuller and Divine Self Investment
Jun 24, 2025
Ep. 273: A Beautiful Hope
Jun 17, 2025
Ep. 272: The Miraculous Nature of Our World
Jun 10, 2025
Ep. 271: A Good God and an All-Powerful God are Mutually Exclusive
Jun 03, 2025
Ep. 270: Science and the Sacred
May 27, 2025
Ep. 269: God and the Pandemic
May 20, 2025
Ep. 268: Amipotence and Weak Theology
May 16, 2025
Ep. 267: Authoritative vs. Nurturant
May 13, 2025
Ep. 266: The Old Testament
May 06, 2025
Ep. 265: Uncontrolled Worship
May 01, 2025
Ep. 264: Returning to the Way of Persuasion
Apr 29, 2025
Ep. 263: Neural Relational Amipotence
Apr 22, 2025
Ep. 262: Keith Ward on Karl Barth
Apr 15, 2025
Ep. 261: Pediatrics and Amipotence
Apr 08, 2025
Ep. 260: Whitehead and Teilhard
Apr 01, 2025
Ep. 259: The Uncontrolling Love of God Conference (UK)
Mar 27, 2025
Ep. 258: An Open and Relational Queer Theology
Mar 25, 2025
Ep. 257: ORTCON25
Mar 20, 2025
Ep. 256: The Prevenience of Amipotence
Mar 06, 2025
Ep. 255: Love Without Qualification
Mar 04, 2025
Ep. 254: Even God Can't Have It All
Feb 27, 2025
Ep. 253: Is God a Hypocrite?
Feb 25, 2025
Ep. 252: The Politics of Amipotence
Feb 21, 2025
Ep. 251: The Holy Spirit is Amipotence Manifested
Feb 19, 2025
Ep. 250: A Solution to the Problem of Divine Hiddenness
Feb 13, 2025
Ep. 249: Amipotence in the Wesleyan Tradition
Feb 11, 2025
Ep. 248: Kelly James Clark and The Power of Love
Feb 04, 2025
Ep. 247: Suffering and the Amipotent God
Feb 01, 2025
Ep. 246: Good Lord Willing
Jan 28, 2025
Ep. 245: What the World Needs Now...Amipotence
Jan 23, 2025
Ep. 244: ORTCON25
Jan 22, 2025
Ep. 243: A Theology of the Microbiome
Jan 14, 2025
Ep. 242: The Problem of Hellenization
Jan 07, 2025
Ep. 241: Overcoming Christian Nationalism
Dec 31, 2024
Ep. 240: God's Not Responsible
Dec 26, 2024
Ep. 239: Surviving God
Dec 17, 2024
Ep. 238: Putting Essential Kenosis to the Test
Dec 10, 2024
Ep. 237: Oblivious to Morals
Dec 05, 2024
Ep. 236: Non Dualism
Nov 27, 2024
Ep. 235: King of Kings?
Nov 19, 2024
Ep. 234: Preaching Politics
Sep 10, 2024
Ep. 233: How Should We See God?
Sep 03, 2024
Ep. 232: The Relational Power of God
Aug 28, 2024
Ep. 231: Love After Deconstruction
Aug 21, 2024
Ep. 230: Christ's Cosmic Table
Aug 13, 2024
Ep. 229: Naturalistic Theism
Aug 06, 2024
Ep. 228: Non Binary Theology
Jul 30, 2024
Ep. 227: Joseph Bracken
Jul 23, 2024
Ep. 226: Go Back to Galilee by Nichole Torbitzky
Jul 16, 2024
Ep. 225: Christian Nationalism
Jul 10, 2024
Ep. 224: Redeeming Violent Verses in the Bible
Jul 03, 2024
Ep. 223: Future Needs a Big Kiss by Lukas Targosz
Jun 26, 2024
Ep. 222: To Be Emptied, by Vikki Randall
Jun 18, 2024
Ep. 221: Saida Mirsadri and a Process Relational Worldview
Jun 11, 2024
Ep. 220: Saida Mirsadri on Muhammad Iqbal
Jun 04, 2024
Ep. 219: Overcoming Christian Nationalism
May 28, 2024
Ep. 218: Opting out of Politics?
May 21, 2024
Ep. 217: Open Theism
May 14, 2024
Ep. 216: Except Through Me?
May 07, 2024
Ep. 215: ORT from Muslim and Christian Perspectives
Apr 30, 2024
Ep. 214: Judaism is About Love
Apr 24, 2024
Ep. 213: The God Who Trusts
Apr 19, 2024
Ep. 212: ORTCON 2024 Pre-Registration
Apr 16, 2024
Ep. 211: Deconstruction Firsthand
Apr 12, 2024
Ep. 210: The Underbelly of Novelty
Apr 09, 2024
Ep. 209: Preaching the Uncontrolling Love of God
Apr 05, 2024
Ep. 208: God After Deconstruction
Apr 01, 2024
Ep. 207: Trauma-Sensitive Theology
Mar 18, 2024
Ep. 206: God and the World
Mar 11, 2024
Ep. 205: Essence and Experience
Mar 04, 2024
Ep. 204: Preaching Open and Relational Theology
Feb 29, 2024
Ep. 203: A Finite God
Feb 26, 2024
Ep. 202: Building the Basileia
Feb 19, 2024
Ep. 201: Register for ORTLine24
Feb 15, 2024
Ep. 200: Indigo
Feb 12, 2024
Ep. 199: Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity
Feb 09, 2024
Ep. 198: From Omnipotence to Amipotence
Feb 05, 2024
Ep. 197: God After Deconstruction, Drew University
Feb 01, 2024
Ep. 196: God Acts With the End in Mind
Jan 29, 2024
Ep. 195: The Power of the God Who Can't
Jan 25, 2024
Ep. 194: Making Sense of Religions
Jan 22, 2024
Ep. 193: God After Deconstruction Online Class
Jan 18, 2024
Ep. 192: Eternal Life
Jan 15, 2024
Ep. 191: John B. Cobb Jr. - Christian Theologian
Jan 11, 2024
Ep. 190: Andrew Davis and Cosmotheology
Jan 08, 2024
Ep. 189: God Needs Creaturely Cooperation (Part 2)
Jan 04, 2024
Ep. 188: God Needs Creaturely Cooperation (Part 1)
Jan 01, 2024
Ep. 187: Camping with Kierkegaard
Dec 18, 2023
Ep. 186: ORTLine 24
Dec 14, 2023
Ep. 185: God Empathizes with Our Suffering (Part 2)
Dec 11, 2023
Ep. 184: God Empathizes with Our Suffering (Part 1)
Dec 04, 2023
Ep. 183: Leading with Love
Nov 27, 2023
Ep. 182: God's Knowledge of the Future
Nov 20, 2023
Ep. 181: Theology Beer Camp Recap
Nov 13, 2023
Ep. 180: ORTLine 24
Nov 09, 2023
Ep. 179: Open and Relational Theology at AAR 2023
Nov 02, 2023
Ep. 178: The Israel Hamas War and the Problem of Evil
Oct 31, 2023
Ep. 177: Reconstructive Postmodern Theology
Oct 16, 2023
Ep. 176 - The Traditional Free Will Defense (Part 2)
Oct 12, 2023
Ep. 175: The Traditional Free Will Defense (Part 1)
Oct 02, 2023
Ep. 174: Sorry, That Won't Work for Me
Sep 25, 2023
Ep. 173: Don Viney Reviews Omnipotence
Sep 18, 2023
Ep. 172: Creeds and Worship From an Open and Relational Perspective
Sep 11, 2023
Ep. 171: The 12 Steps of Uncontrolling Love
Sep 04, 2023
Ep: 170: Creating Women's Theology
Aug 28, 2023
Ep. 169: Christianity for People Who Don't Like Christianity
Aug 24, 2023
Ep. 168: Teilhard and Whitehead Conference
Aug 17, 2023
Ep. 167: Doctoral Program in Open and Relational Theology
Aug 14, 2023
Ep. 166: Theology Beer Camp
Aug 10, 2023
Ep. 165: The Divine Change We Need
Aug 07, 2023
Ep. 164: Girardian Intersections Conference
Aug 03, 2023
Ep. 163: Unblaming God
Jul 31, 2023
Ep. 162: Ilia Delio's View of God
Jul 25, 2023
Ep: 161: Kenarchy and Roger Haydon Mitchell
Jul 18, 2023
Ep. 160: John B. Cobb Jr's Confessions
Jul 11, 2023
Ep. 159: Peter Enns and Curveball
Jul 04, 2023
Ep. 158: Keith Ward's Adventures in Belief
Jun 27, 2023
Ep. 157: The Politics of Omnipotence
Jun 20, 2023
Ep: 156: El Shaddai and Sabaoth
Jun 13, 2023
Ep. 155: Zack Hunt and Godbreathed
Jun 06, 2023
Ep. 154: Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki and The Psalms
May 30, 2023
Ep. 153: The Death of Omnipotence
May 23, 2023
Ep. 152: ORTCON23
May 18, 2023
Ep. 151: Imitating God
May 16, 2023
Ep. 149: Love Does Not Control
May 11, 2023
Ep. 150: Love Does Not Control Conference
May 11, 2023
Ep. 148: Near Death Experiences
Jan 31, 2023
Ep. 147: Creator & Creatures (7) are Valuable in Themselves
Jan 27, 2023
Ep. 146: Emil Brunner's Theology of Love
Jan 24, 2023
Ep. 145: Creator & Creatures (6) Have Needs
Jan 20, 2023
Ep. 145: Creator & Creatures (5) are Free Agents
Jan 13, 2023
Ep. 143: Creator & Creatures (4) are Experiencers
Jan 06, 2023
Ep. 142: Creator & Creatures (3) Promote Well-Being
Dec 30, 2022
Ep. 141: Creating a Better World
Dec 27, 2022
Ep. 140: Creator & Creatures (2) Experience the Ongoing Flow of Time
Dec 23, 2022
Ep. 139: Creator & Creatures Give & Receive
Dec 16, 2022
Ep. 138: Are You the Unchurched?
Dec 13, 2022
Ep. 137: William Paul Young says, "God is not in control"
Dec 09, 2022
Ep. 136: Muslim & Christian Open & Relational Theology
Dec 06, 2022
Ep. 135: A Theology of Consent
Dec 02, 2022
Ep. 133: The Problem of Good
Nov 25, 2022
Ep. 132 - Gary Chartier Loves Creation
Nov 18, 2022
Ep. 131: Relentless Love
Nov 11, 2022
Ep. 131: Theology of Love Conference
Nov 08, 2022
Ep. 130: Uncontroling and Freely Loving
Nov 04, 2022
Ep. 129: Imitating Love and Loving by Nature
Nov 01, 2022
Ep. 128: Suffering and Intuiting Love
Oct 28, 2022
Ep. 127: Cooperating and Forgiving Love
Oct 25, 2022
Ep. 126: Unlimited and Creatively Responsive Love
Oct 21, 2022
Ep. 125: Where is an Omnipotent God in the Bible?
Oct 18, 2022
Ep. 124: A Different View of Divine Power
Oct 14, 2022
Ep. 123: The Final Three Myths and Realities about Healing
Oct 11, 2022
Ep. 122: Still More Myths and Realities about Healing
Oct 07, 2022
Ep. 121: Three Additional Myths and Realities about Healing
Oct 04, 2022
Ep. 120: Three More Myths and Realities about Healing
Sep 30, 2022
Ep. 119: Three Myths and Realities about Healing
Sep 27, 2022
Ep. 118: Anna Case-Winters and Curtis Holtzen
Sep 23, 2022
Ep. 117: "Power & the God of Love" Conference
Sep 20, 2022
Ep. 116: "Along Side of" Love
Sep 16, 2022
Ep. 115: "Because of" Love
Sep 13, 2022
Ep. 114: "In Spite of" Love
Sep 09, 2022
Ep. 113: A Personal God?
Sep 06, 2022
Ep. 112: The Pain Killer
Sep 02, 2022
Ep. 111: Church as a Dynamic Life-System
Aug 30, 2022
Ep. 110: Power & The God of Love
Aug 26, 2022
Ep. 109: God's Plans
Aug 23, 2022
Ep. 108: Meaning and Purpose
Aug 19, 2022
Ep. 107: Artistic Sensibility
Aug 16, 2022
Ep. 106: Perfect Being Theology
Aug 12, 2022
Ep. 105: Science and Philosophy
Aug 09, 2022
Ep. 104: Jesus in Open and Relational Theology
Aug 05, 2022
Ep. 103: Relational Reality
Aug 02, 2022
Ep. 102: Social Sciences
Jul 29, 2022
Ep. 101: Our Intuitions
Jul 26, 2022
Ep. 100: Celebrating 100 Episodes
Jul 22, 2022
Ep. 99: The Logic of Love
Jul 19, 2022
Ep. 98: Scripture in Open and Relational Theology
Jul 15, 2022
Ep. 97: Answering Big Questions
Jul 12, 2022
Ep. 96: The Elephant is Running
Jul 08, 2022
Ep. 95: Creation in Love
Jul 05, 2022
Ep. 94: Ann Pederson and Creation Jazz
Jul 01, 2022
Ep. 93: Hesed
Jun 28, 2022
Ep. 92: Native American Theology
Jun 24, 2022
Ep. 91: Ilia Delio and Roman Catholicism
Jun 21, 2022
Ep. 90: The Classical God is Simple
Jun 17, 2022
Ep. 89 - The Classical God is Impassible
Jun 14, 2022
Ep. 88: The Classical God is Immutable
Jun 10, 2022
Ep. 87: The Classical God is Timeless
Jun 07, 2022
Ep. 86: The Core of Classical Theology
Jun 03, 2022
Ep. 85: Feminist Process Theologies
May 31, 2022
Ep. 84 - Open and Relational Basics
May 27, 2022
Ep. 83: Divine Revelation
May 03, 2022
Ep. 82: A Jewish Process Theology
Apr 29, 2022
Ep. 81: Do I Stay Christian?
Apr 26, 2022
Ep. 80: Donna Bowman on an Open Future
Apr 22, 2022
Ep. 79: Organic Islamic Humanism
Apr 19, 2022
Ep. 78: Divine Justice as Restorative
Apr 15, 2022
Ep. 77: Wild Nature in Process
Apr 12, 2022
Ep. 76: God Everlastingly Loves & Creates Out of Creation
Apr 08, 2022
Ep. 75: Essential Hesed
Apr 05, 2022
Ep. 74: A Flourishing Life
Apr 01, 2022
Ep. 73: Keith Ward's Open World
Mar 29, 2022
Ep. 72: A Pet Rock
Mar 25, 2022
Ep. 71: God as a Good Parent
Mar 22, 2022
Ep. 70: God Creates By Speaking
Mar 18, 2022
Ep. 69: Partnering Past a Pandemic
Mar 15, 2022
Ep. 68: Why Is There Suffering?
Mar 11, 2022
Ep. 67: Amipotence 2.0
Mar 08, 2022
Ep. 66: A Limited God?
Mar 04, 2022
Ep. 65: Must God Love?
Mar 01, 2022
Ep. 64: Jesus in Open and Relational Theology
Feb 25, 2022
Ep. 63: Clark Pinnock
Feb 22, 2022
Ep. 62: Keith Ward Responds to David Bentley Hart
Feb 18, 2022
Ep. 61: The Center for Open & Relational Theology
Feb 15, 2022
Ep. 60: The Evangelical Unbound God
Feb 11, 2022
Ep. 59: Open & Relational Theology & Deconstruction
Feb 08, 2022
Ep. 58: ORTLine Books
Feb 04, 2022
Ep. 57: Possibilities
Feb 01, 2022
Ep. 56: The Science and Philosophy of Free Will
Jan 28, 2022
Ep. 55: Separated from God?
Jan 25, 2022
Ep. 54: Love in Judaism
Jan 21, 2022
Ep. 53: God Can't Prevent Trauma Single-handedly
Jan 18, 2022
Ep. 52: Augustine on Love
Jan 14, 2022
Ep. 51: Ryan Lambros on Healing
Jan 11, 2022
Ep. 50: Picking Up Your Cross
Jan 07, 2022
Ep. 49: Organisms and Aggregates
Jan 04, 2022
Ep. 48: Life Changing Theology
Dec 31, 2021
Ep. 47: Anthropomorphism
Dec 28, 2021
Ep. 46: Is God's Will Settled?
Dec 24, 2021
Ep. 45: Anna Case-Winters on Incarnation
Dec 21, 2021
Ep. 44: Two ORT Conferences
Dec 17, 2021
Ep. 43: Theologies of Love
Dec 14, 2021
Ep. 42: Conspiring Prayer
Dec 10, 2021
Ep. 41: Writing with God
Dec 07, 2021
Ep. 40: Do All Good Christians Go to Church?
Dec 03, 2021
Ep. 39: Open for Discovery
Nov 30, 2021
Ep. 38: A Feminist Theory of Atonement
Nov 26, 2021
Ep. 37: The Mechanics of Omniscience
Nov 23, 2021
Ep. 36: Boundless Love
Nov 19, 2021
Ep. 35: Openness of the Future
Nov 16, 2021
Ep. 34: Islamic Open and Relational Theology
Nov 12, 2021
Ep. 33: The Best Box
Nov 09, 2021
Ep. 32: Dancing with God
Nov 05, 2021
Ep. 31: Relational Love as the Image of God
Nov 02, 2021
Ep. 30: Charles Wesley's Hymn 28
Oct 29, 2021
Ep. 29: The Limitation of God's Power
Oct 26, 2021
Ep. 28: Embracing a Beautiful God
Oct 22, 2021
Ep. 27: Providence
Oct 19, 2021
Ep. 26: God's Power
Oct 15, 2021
Ep. 25: Circling the Elephant
Oct 12, 2021
Ep. 24: Is God an Entity?
Oct 08, 2021
Ep. 23: Pentecostalism and ORT
Oct 05, 2021
Ep. 21: Sexuality, An Interesting Conference
Oct 01, 2021
Ep. 22: Going Deeper in ORT - Upcoming Class
Oct 01, 2021
Ep. 14: A Personal Testimony
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 15: Foreknowledge and Ice Cream
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 16: Amipotent
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 17: The Power of Love
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 18: Open and Relational Christology
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 19: Prevenient Grace
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 20: Process? Open? Relational?
Sep 17, 2021
Ep. 9: Transcendence
Sep 16, 2021
Ep. 10: Partnering with God
Sep 16, 2021
Ep. 11: God Has No Hands
Sep 16, 2021
Ep. 12: God's Partnership is Yeasty
Sep 16, 2021
Ep. 13: Introduction to Open and Relational Theology
Sep 16, 2021
Ep. 7: Inerrancy
Aug 31, 2021
Ep. 8: In your book were written the days
Aug 31, 2021
Ep. 6: Apocalypse
Aug 31, 2021
Ep 4: The Elect
Aug 31, 2021
Ep. 5: Parenting
Aug 31, 2021
Ep. 3: The Openness of God
Aug 25, 2021
Ep. 1: God Trusts
Aug 25, 2021
Ep. 2: Divine Enjoyment
Aug 25, 2021