Open and Relational Essays
Omnipotence, Amipotence,or Just the Steadfast Love of God?
The Explanatory Failure of Amipotence
The Measureless Game
The Palindrome of “Bolton”Would Be “Notlob!”
Amipotence Vs. Omnipotence
The Power of Love
Love Without Qualification
God and Kidney Stones
The Power of Abiding Love That Will Not Let Us Go
Practicing Amipotence
Man, Bear, or Amipotent God?
Hell and Amipotence
Love: The Name of the Universe
The Prevenience of Amipotence
A Womanist Liberative Response toOord’s Theology of Amipotence
Amipotence as a Solution to theProblem of Divine Hiddenness
Amipotence Confined
Amipotence with Added Anarchy
Why Can’t God Do More?
Is an Amipotent God Preferable to the God of Freewill Theism?
The Ontotheological Idolatry of Love
Silent, Still and Sweet Attraction
Night of the Living Words
The Panarchist Politics of Amipotence
I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)
An Empowering Not Overpowering Spirit
Trinity, Time, and an Unfolding Future
Even God Can’t Have It All
The Stories that Shape Us
Jade/d
Therapeutic Control
Do You Want to be Self-Actualized?
Communion as the Therapeutic Center of Uncontrolling Love
In God’s Image
So What Happens When We Assume?
The Key to Enemy Love
Sorry, That Won’t Work for Me
Faith, Freedom, and Fromm
We Need to Let the Soul Mourn!
Agents of Change
Relational Theology and Relational Psychotherapy
Enabling Presence
The Kind of God, The Kind of Man
The Whole-Making God Within
The Trinity Within
God Can Either Love Us Or Try To Control Us—But He Can’t Do Both
Seeing God Differently Will Change You
The Transformative Power of Relational Grace
Difficult People and God’s Uncontrolling Love
Sticks and Stones
I’m Losing Control of My Child!
Why Control Feels Safer Than Love
Ways a Love-Based Psychotherapy Resonates with Oord’s View of a Loving God
The Drama Triangle, Relational Dysfunction, and Uncontrolling Love
Non-Possessive Delight
Working with God
Uncontrolling Love, Free Will, and Responsibility
God’s Therapeutic Approach
Killing God, Finding God
Theology, Spirituality, Psychology, and Stature
Where God Can’t, Agents Can
The Consulting Room as a Place of Mystery and Healing
Caregiving Trifecta
The Power to Change
EFT and ORT are a MatchMade in Heaven
The Art of Kintsugi and the Formation of Self as Therapist
The Encounter
The Divine Change We Need
Uncontrolling Couples Therapy
Little White Lies
Is God’s Will SomethingWe Need to Find or Something We Help Create?
The Improvising Chaplain
Open and Relational Care
A Journey of Love from Addictions
The Waterfall
A Loving Therapeutic Relationship
Where Is God in Healing Our Woundedness?
Uncontrolling LoveGoes to Prison
Anxiety and Control
Helping Those Who Help Others
The Butterfly Effect(or the Effect of Butterflies)
Not Overpowering but Empowering People
Self-Emptying Storytelling
God Wants to Be Your Midwife
Immanuel Journaling as a Simple Tool to Experience God’s Uncontrolling Love
A Client’s Reflection on Uncontrolling and Relational Therapy
Unclenched Fists andOpen Hearts
Five Core Themes from anOpen and Relational Informed Psychotherapy
Transforming, Healing LOVE
Spiritual Direction as an Uncontrolling Practice that Reveals an Uncontrolling God
It Was Then That We Hopped
God’s Partnership is Yeasty
Greening Power
My Friend God
With
God is Obsessed with All of Me
God Needs You!
Jesus of No Fixed Address
Responding to the Risky God
All Good Christians Go to Church; Or Do They?
