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

67 Articles

God, Behemoth, and Leviathan

Why, oh why, does a third of God's response to Job focus on two mythical creatures?

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Job 11 min read Nov 18, 2025

Revelation in a whirlwind

As violent winds batter him, Job expects to die like his kids. Instead, God speaks from the storm.

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Job 11 min read Nov 11, 2025

Why Job wants a mediator

This last toxic belief causes Job to desire a mediator to protect him from his accuser.

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Job 10 min read Nov 4, 2025

Does God take away?

We proclaim this sixth toxic belief whenever we sing the UK's 37th most popular worship song.

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Job 7 min read Oct 28, 2025

Are humans vile and corrupt?

A God who punishes the deserving leads us to another toxic belief about the value of human beings.

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Job 7 min read Oct 21, 2025

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