Freedom of Belief and Speech
- Aug. 14th, 2016 at 7:12 PM
"...Love comes before ... power in the divine nature...
God cannot prevent evil because God's love is always uncontrolling."
-- Thomas Jay Oord, whose teaching position at Northwest Nazarine University
will be terminated in 2018. possibly because his employers do not like his
theology.
God cannot prevent evil because God's love is always uncontrolling."
-- Thomas Jay Oord, whose teaching position at Northwest Nazarine University
will be terminated in 2018. possibly because his employers do not like his
theology.

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Comments
Looking up Oord,Wikipedia says he was to be unemployed after 2014-2015, but then that was rescinded.Was it unrescinded?
The university is claiming it is about budget problems
But i don't think they would be messing with their religion department unless something else was going.
It seems that i have read stuff by and about Oord that suggest more than a provincial reputation (all good.)
Non sequitur: Of course, US academie in general has been horribly eroded.
What is really lovely about that is that the response changes from desperately scrambling to "be good" so as to win approval or avoid disapproval, to a grateful desire to make some return for so much love. To "be good" to please God not out of cringing fear of losing His love because that's not possible, but out of a positive desire to make my Lover happy, and how do you make a lover happy but by showing your love in return? and to let go of anything on my own end that separates me from that limitless Love.
Hooray for Al Anon. It is good to be back.
Tomorrow i will meet with a friend who i have not seen in over 26 years. He never left Al Anon. I really look forward to it!