Steve Hall

For over 20 years, Steve has been migrating away from a violent view of God to a nonviolent one. He launched A Nonviolent God in 2025 to help others undergoing the same journey. He's the author of Lament Forgive.

Newport, Wales, UK

38 Articles

The order of deserved punishment

Two more toxic beliefs arise from the idea that God uses disasters to punish those who deserve it.

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Job 10 min read Oct 14, 2025

A soliloquy of despair

With climate disasters happening daily, exposing this second toxic belief is more urgent than ever.

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Job 9 min read Oct 7, 2025

There once was a man named Job

Without knowing Job's genre, the first toxic belief we identify is very persuasive because God says it.

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Job 8 min read Sep 30, 2025

The misunderstanding of Martha

We assume Martha is distracted by hosting dinner; find out what she's actually distracted by.

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Encounters 8 min read Sep 23, 2025

A gift of living water

Jesus' gift of living water is about the Samaritan woman's past. So she changes the subject.

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Encounters 8 min read Sep 16, 2025

Hanging out at wells

The Samaritan woman in John 4 doesn't expect to meet anyone at the well. Especially not Jesus.

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Encounters 6 min read Sep 9, 2025

A stone in your hand

Jesus sits, stoops, stands, stoops, and stands, and somehow rescues a woman from stoning.

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Encounters 7 min read Sep 2, 2025

BP and kenosis

Green theology must speak truth to power instead of making ordinary people falsely responsible.

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Climate Change 10 min read Jul 22, 2025

Our original mandate

God's original blessing of humankind is not meant to be forgotten or ignored or replaced.

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Climate Change 9 min read Jul 15, 2025

The subdue dilemmas

As Christians, we have a subdue dilemma—three in fact, all stemming from Genesis 1:28.

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Climate Change 7 min read Jul 8, 2025

Noah's Ark and a nonviolent God

It's time we stop using cute pairs of animals to desensitise ourselves from the horrors of the flood.

Climate Change 12 min read Jul 1, 2025

Churches and the fossil fuel empire

When I began researching Climate Change, I never imagined writing an article like this.

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Climate Change 8 min read Jun 24, 2025