ORT Shorts

About ORT Shorts

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.

Publisher

Thomas Jay Oord

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Aug 2021

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 315 episodes have a transcript.

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   1 Sept 2026

   Ep. 315: Reimagining God

   In this episode, Dr. Oord re-engages with the new book from Michael Rose entitled, Made By Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith in Light of Relentless Love. Made by Love, for Love invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding. Drawing from the evolutionary vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Open and Relational theology of Thomas Jay Oord, this book reveals a God whose very n...

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   25 Aug 2026

   Ep. 314: All Flesh Shalom (Part 2)

   In this episode Dr. Oord re-engages with Steve Watson's new book entitled All Flesh Shalom: Larger, Freer, More Loving Readings of the Good News of Jesus From the book description: So many of the forms of Christianity we have inherited have disappointed us. We’ve been offered a faith that seems to make people smaller, more rigid, and more violent. This is why James Baldwin once wrote, “If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more l...

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   19 Aug 2026

   Ep. 313: Made By Love, For Love

   In this episode, Dr. Oord engages with the new book from Michael Rose entitled, Made By Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith in Light of Relentless Love. Made by Love, for Love invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding. Drawing from the evolutionary vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Open and Relational theology of Thomas Jay Oord, this book reveals a God whose very natu...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

28 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

90

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