Theology Nerd Throwdown

Big Nephilim Energy: A Field Guide

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:50:00 -0000

Tripp walked into his local cigar lounge this week and walked out with a one-and-a-half-cigar lecture on the Nephilim from a true believer — and now he and Bo are doing what a few regular chat-room members asked for, a full TNT on fallen angelic watchers, giant hybrid offspring, CRISPR, Peter Thiel, Mount Hermon, the 33rd parallel, the UN, reptilian royal bloodlines, and why your YouTube algorithm may never recover from one wrong click. Bo brings the charismatic-evangelical back catalog — George Otis Jr., prayer-walking Bosnia, the Prince of Persia, the 10/40 window, the Joshua Project — Tripp brings Michael Heiser, three interpretive options for Genesis 6, and a deeply researched week with the book of Enoch. They get where it actually matters eventually: the Manichean temptation of hybrid-evil cosmologies, the way conspiracy theology reduces cognitive load in moments of social upheaval (tip of the hat to Hans Blumenberg), and what the Nephilim revival reveals about post-Christendom re-enchantment. Plus Theology Beer Camp lineup updates, a Brian McLaren text that may or may not contain a subtle dig at the twentieth century, and Bo's community pantry getting a glass-front fridge.

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Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:16:00 -0000

So many clergy members and theology nerds messaged me after JD Vance told the Pope to dial back the theology talk that I had no choice — I called my friend Kevin Carnahan, co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and author of an extremely technical book on just war theory that he will tell you not to read. Kevin teaches at Central Methodist University in Missouri and he showed up having apparently thought about all of this in serious depth while the rest of us were just screaming into the void. What followed was one of the best episodes we've done. We traced the actual history of just war theory from Aquinas through John XXIII's Pacem in Terris— which moved the Catholic Church so close to pacifism in practice that nearly no war could satisfy its criteria — through the moment nuclear weapons broke the entire framework, through drone warfare and AI targeting that's broken it further, and right up to a Trump administration that dismantled the actual government office dedicated to minimizing civilian harm and then had the audacity to invoke just war theory as a fig leaf. Kevin's read on the papal conflict: the Pope knows exactly what he's doing and is faithfully representing a tradition that JD Vance passed through on Peter Thiel's E-Z Pass lane. We also got into the three streams of Protestant ethics on war — peace churches, just war thinkers, and crusaders — why Hegseth fits cleanly into the crusader category, why Trump fits none of them, why the Lord of the Rings is the best undergraduate ethics text available, and what Bonhoeffer's prayer for his own country's defeat sounds like in 2026. Tripp eventually brought up Tolkien. Bo noted it took an hour and eleven minutes. Bonhoeffer was invoked. John Cobb got in at the end. The trifecta complete.

For those regular Homebrewed Christianity listeners, this is an episode of another weekly podcast Theology Nerd Throwdown that I do with Bo Sanders and our (nonviolent) army of theology nerds in the chat. If you enjoy it, subscribe to the TNT feed and feel the lure to join live most Friday mornings.

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The Consequences, Not the Mechanism: What the Resurrection Narratives Are Actually About

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:48:00 -0000

It's Holy Week, which means Bo and I finally stopped talking about chickens, bikes, and CCM songs long enough to do theology — though we did all of those things first. The actual idea Bo had was simple and turned out to be genuinely illuminating: what if we worked our way backwards through the passion week narrative, starting with the post-resurrection appearances on Monday and moving back toward Good Friday? The theory being that if you start at the end and let the consequences of the resurrection interpret everything before it, you read the whole story differently. Turns out, yes, you do. We talked about the fact that no gospel actually describes the resurrection happening — only its effects, only its consequences — and how much Christian energy gets wasted on the mechanism when the texts are entirely uninterested in that question. Tripp's seven implications for Holy Week came fast and hot: the cross as mirror of what civilization does to nonviolent love, PSA as the theological theory with the least observable consequences in people's actual lives, and why loving your enemies isn't a vibe but the specific thing that got Jesus killed. Then Bo discovered Holy Saturday via Balthasar and hasn't recovered — the silent day as a womb of restrained fullness, Jesus as the one who has gone further into death than any of us will ever go, double dead, so that nothing we face is faced alone. Pete Rollins on the experience of absence versus the absence of experience made an appearance. Bonhoeffer made his inevitable appearance. Elgin Frank Tupper closed it out: the resurrection isn't verified by the empty tomb, it's verified by the harvest — when all things are raised into the life of God. We'll be back next week for Nephilim. Happy Easter.

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Spiritual Warfare to Spiritual Welfare: Bo's Four Stories of Reclaiming Charismatic Practice

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:57:00 -0000

Happy birthday to Haven, who turns nine today! He’s my third kid, which means the Fuller household has been thoroughly outnumbered for a while now, which also means it is absolutely appropriate that Bo and I spent a Friday morning talking about demons. This one started where all the best TNT episodes start — a text from Bo that said essentially: can we talk about reclaiming the good parts of being charismatic? And listen, I grew up Baptist, so I genuinely missed out on the whole casting-out-demons, anointing-doorframes, spiritual-warfare-as-Dungeons-and-Dragons pipeline. Bo did not miss out. And he's been spending a few years trying to figure out which of those practices were actually onto something, even if the metaphysics were a mess. He brought four stories: prayer walking with your eyes open instead of closed (spiritual warfare → spiritual welfare), spiritual mapping as a way of seeing your city's gateways as sites of partnership instead of enemy strongholds, the "My Heart, Christ Home" pre-baptism house-walk prayer practice, and a full theology of exorcism — power encounter versus truth encounter — including my own undefeated record at exorcisms, which I will not spoil except to say: baptismal font, palm branch, and a very successful businessman who was, by any reasonable definition, acting demonic. I brought my old lecture notes on Tillich and David Ray Griffin's theories of the demonic, which turned out to pair with Bo's stories better than either of us expected. Tillich's line — the demonic is the holy with a minus sign — ended up doing a lot of work. So did Griffin's lecture at Asbury. This one went places. Come for the exorcism, stay for the Nephilim teaser at the end.

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The Two Foundation Stones Holding Up Everything You Hate About American Politics

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:59:00 -0000

It's TNT, it's a Friday, and Bo came in hot — with a week's worth of text messages about natural law, JD Vance, and the philosophical underpinnings of contemporary conservatism that started innocently enough and ended somewhere near Bruno Latour and the cloaking of power. Before we get there, I shared a bit about my time at the Futures of Liberation Theology event at Wake Divinity — liberation theology royalty, great hair, genuine questions about what happens to a tradition when it loses its roots in church community and gets handed off to the academy — and whether the baton can be passed when the next generation doesn't know the story they're supposed to be running with. Then Bo lays out what he's been piecing together: that the entire edifice of contemporary American conservatism rests on two foundation stones — natural law and divine revelation — and that when you pair those two things, the same five arguments show up every single time. What follows is an hour of political theology, TNT-style: why natural law is philosophically sloppy in ways that Bruno Latour, Nancy Cartwright, and Denis Noble can all explain, how it functions as a power-cloaking mechanism that launders ideological preferences as biological facts, the historical arc from New Deal liberalism through neoliberalism to the postliberal eruption we're currently living through, MacIntyre and Hauerwas as compelling diagnosticians whose followers scare Bo, the cut flower problem of progressive churches that have all the openness and none of the roots, and why no one at the truck stop cares.

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The Podcast That Wasn't Supposed to Last 18 Years & Vintage Theo-Blog War Stories

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:13:00 -0000

Eighteen years. That's how long Homebrew Christianity has been doing this thing — and to celebrate, Bo pulls out trivia, giveaways, and a surprise birthday guest in Brian McLaren, who drops in to talk about hope with longer timeframes, process theology as medicine for hardened neo-Platonism, and what worship might look like if we started from a process worldview instead of trying to fix a broken one. After Brian heads out to work out like the legend he is, we go full memory lane: the theology blog wars, the Hauwersian mafia, Rachel Held Evans and the post that broke the internet (and probably Tripp's evangelical ordination credentials), Rob Bell trying to keep a straight face while Tripp improved a sermon to "No Woman No Cry" at Monkish, getting subtweeted by evangelicals who wouldn't tag them, Chad Crawford — the OG CrawDaddy who saw all of this before anyone else did — and the MP3 recorder between two guys sitting three feet apart in a Westwood office that somehow became TNT. It's a birthday party, it's a wake, it's a theological pub quiz, and it's one of the most genuinely fun hours this podcast has ever produced. Eighteen years. Come on.

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Seduced into Self-Exploitation: Liberation Theology for the Algorithmic Age

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:24:00 -0000

Bo and I came in hot this week — Five Iron Frenzy concert tonight, a heated Chick-fil-A debate (Bo is wrong), In-N-Out orders, and the things southern Idaho doesn't have — before diving into the first five of ten thesis statements from the book I'm writing on the digital colonization of the self. I threw the whole document into an AI slide maker without any coaching and we're seeing the results live for the first time, slides out of order and all. We covered the algorithm as history's first successful colonization of human interiority (Jesus said go into your inner room to pray — that assumes there's a door, and the algorithm picked the lock), how this empire rules through seduction rather than coercion so we don't recognize it as empire, the disappearance of the face of the other and with it the possibility of ethics and love, neuroimaging studies showing the gray matter in high social media users' prefrontal cortex is physically shrinking, and Robin Dunbar's research on why screens can't transmit the endorphins that genuine social bonding requires — we're scrolling through pictures of food while our stomachs remain empty. Bo got under conviction live and committed to stop calling in pickup orders so he can stand in line around actual humans, we had a real exchange about spirituality versus religion, went on a significant detour about dating apps and the disappearance of in-person flirting, and we'll do the other five theses next week.

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What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make?

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This Lenten class ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now.

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Parables, Panopticons, and Pinterest

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:51:00 -0000

Bo and I kick off with some old-school podcasting war stories — the duck connector, paying per megabyte, and the time I edited a famous theologian's interview so aggressively that a fan called me out for making them sound like a different person. Then we roll into our alphabet soup series with G and H. Bo drops a banger pairing genre and globalization — the idea being that if his conservative friends and family just understood these two concepts, every conversation would change. Genre because people are still reading the entire Bible in one monotone voice and ending up with monstrous theology (see: Aquinas thinking one of heaven's perks is watching people suffer in hell, which Nietzsche had a field day with). And globalization because we keep blaming immigrants for job losses that were actually caused by automation and China, shopping at Walmart without connecting it to the global supply chain, and treating "communism" like a Cold War boogeyman instead of reckoning with China's weird capitalist-communist hybrid that's outmaneuvering us. Then Bo pairs hermeneutics with Human 2.0 — Schleiermacher's insight that even understanding your spouse requires the art of interpretation, and I go full existential crisis mode about algorithms colonizing our inner room, turning our interiority into a plantation for billionaires. Also: U2 dropped a new EP and Bono made me cry in the car, I almost set a teenager on fire making ashes for his first Ash Wednesday service, Trump may have accidentally confirmed aliens exist, and I introduced the crew to a little device called a Brick that turns your phone into a phone.

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What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make?

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠This Lenten class ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now.

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From the Society of Spectacle to the Filioque Clause

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:22:00 -0000

This week Bo and I kicked things off talking about life getting smaller and simpler — from downsizing kitchens to wire racks for air quality — and I confessed that nine days of solo parenting gave me a whole new respect for single parents everywhere. Then I brought something to the table I've been chewing on for about a decade: when we gather on Sunday mornings, is what we do a complement to the chaos people are swimming in all week, or is it a supplement — something different, something higher? I've pretty much landed on supplement, but social media keeps telling me if your pastor isn't addressing every headline, find a new church. Bo brought the heat with Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle, and we got into why I refuse to let Steve Bannon set the agenda for what happens in the pulpit. From there we dove into our ABCs of Theology series with E for Emergence — from Scrabble boards to beehives to the Genesis creation story — and how I'm trying to model pastoral leadership on emergence rather than top-down command. Then Bo dropped F for Fideism, and we unpacked why retreating into "just believe harder" is so tempting right now but ultimately sells the faith short. We hit the Filioque clause, took some shots at trad Caths and the Yale School, and I gave an update on my new neighborhood evangelism strategy: cleaning gutters and hoping nobody shoots each other when things go sideways. I'll see you in Valhalla.

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What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make?

⁠⁠⁠⁠This Lenten class ⁠⁠⁠⁠begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now.

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3 Letters.? 1 Pod!

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:17:00 -0000

Alright folks, Bo and I are two weeks and two hours delayed because of snow, so buckle up for some cabin fever energy. We tackle the alphabet soup of theology starting with B for belonging and baptism—why there's zero agreement on how to dunk people in water despite it being central to Christianity. We get into the weeds on bipartisan politics as techno-feudalism on rails (think Snow Piercer but with oligarchs), then dive into C for constructivism and how everything from race to state lines to the Constitution is socially constructed. We break down why actual deconstruction isn't just burning it all down—it's lovingly taking apart the boards to rebuild something better. We end with D for democracy and why the cross-pressures of our current moment make deliberative decision-making nearly impossible. Plus: prayer breakfasts, Epstein files, blueberry coffee heresy, and why my kid says I'm nicer after I hang out with Bo. Also, we're planning a theology nerd glamping retreat where you have to lock up your phones. You're welcome.

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⁠⁠UPCOMING ONLINE LENT CLASS: Jesus in Galilee w/ John Dominic Crossan⁠⁠⁠

What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make?

⁠⁠⁠This Lenten class ⁠⁠⁠begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now.

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When Going to Church Makes It Worse: on Moral Bankruptcy of White Evangelicalism

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:05:00 -0000

Look, I wasn't planning on going here—Bo and I were supposed to get to our dictionary series on the B words. But then my algorithm fed me a parade of people I've loved my whole life defending an ICE agent shooting a mom three times through a window, calling her a "domestic terrorist," and I just lost it. So I wrote this piece exploring how the German church's drift into Nazi accommodation mirrors what's happening in white evangelicalism right now, and the thing blew up—50,000 extra downloads, shared over 700 times. Here's what the psychological research shows: it's not evil, it's what Bonhoeffer called "stupidity"—a surrender of inner moral independence through sequential complicity. You take that first mundane step of compliance, then you spend the rest of your life defending every compromise you made along the way. The data is damning: the more you attend a white evangelical church, the more you support Trump and resonate with Christian nationalism. Mainline Protestants? The opposite—more church attendance, less nationalism. The white American evangelicalism isn't the antidote; it's the incubator. And when my own kid says "I'm just glad we're not thatChristian," I realize the very community that taught me God loves everyone is now forming people who can read the Sermon on the Mount and treat it like an interesting suggestion. This isn't Christianity anymore. It's Christianism—and we need to jump out of this kettle before it's too late.

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What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make?

⁠⁠This Lenten class ⁠⁠begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now.

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The A's Have It: Argument Culture, Adiaphora & Atonement Theories

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 10:00:00 -0000

What is up, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I kicked off our Theological Dictionary of 2026—26 letters for 26, pairing theological concepts with cultural commentary. We dove into the A's: argument culture, adiaphora, and atonement. We started with Deborah Tannen's 1997 book The Argument Culture and marveled at how she thought things were bad then—30 years before algorithms and 24-hour news cycles turned us all into gladiators. Then we explored adiaphora, that beautiful old Greek concept of "indifferent things"—matters not essential to salvation—as a potential antidote to our zero-sum cultural warfare. Tillich's wedding ring analogy made an appearance, and Bo brought the fire with Bonhoeffer's insistence that the Jewish question was absolutely not adiaphora in Nazi Germany. Context matters, folks. We landed on atonement as our test case: I want to call theories of atonement adiaphora because Scripture isn't crystal clear on mechanics, but there's this one group that insists PSA is the gospel. We unpacked six major theories, got into some Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Keith Ward, and Frank Tupper, and Bo may have gently suggested that penal substitutionary atonement is the least compelling of the bunch. Next week: B is for belonging, with baptism and bipartisan politics as our test cases. See you in Valhalla!

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The Courage of Yes: Consenting to a God We Cannot Grasp

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:28:00 -0000

So I made these slides for a talk on centering prayer and process theology, and instead of just presenting them, I sent them to Bo and we played a game where he tried to guess what I was going to say. What emerged was this really fun conversation about how centering prayer is just so different from anything most of us were taught about prayer. Like, it starts in a different place—with practice, not with what you're trying to get. It ends in a different place—communion, not transaction. It understands God differently—not a distant deity you're trying to reach, but the one in whom we already live and move and have our being. And it understands the self differently—we're not isolated individuals initiating contact with God, we're already woven into relation, already addressed before we speak. We dig into Thomas Keating, Catherine Keller, John Cobb, the Cloud of Unknowing, and how process theology makes sense of what the contemplatives have been saying all along. Bo found it both seductive and disorienting, which honestly is the best compliment I could get. And we end up talking about how this kind of prayer naturally leads to justice work and ecological responsibility, because once you dismantle the false self, you can't help but feel the suffering of others more acutely.

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One-third of Americans now claim no religious affiliation. That's 100 million people.

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No Room in the Inn: a Theology Nerd's Hallmark Christmas Story

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:05:00 -0000

🎄 NO ROOM IN THE INN: A Theology Nerds Christmas Special 🎄 Last week, Tripp and Bo played Hallmark Movie Mad Libs—and things got wildly out of hand. With answers shouted out in real time (and some help from the chat), we accidentally wrote an entire progressive Christian Hallmark Christmas movie. It has everything: 🦌 A hunky taxidermist with a heart of gold ⛪ An Episcopal deacon hiding her collar from her boyfriend 🐩 A three-legged poodle named Gretzky 🍖 A food bank called "The Roadkill Cafe" 📖 Marcus Borg's The First Christmas as a plot device 🎤 A karaoke scene featuring Georgia Satellites 👶 A childhood photo of our leads as Mary and Joseph in a church pageant 🦌🚗 A tragic deer-related backstory 💔 A boyfriend who gets a little too into Jordan Peterson This week, we read the script LIVE. Grab your eggnog, settle in, and join us for No Room in the Inn—a love story about coming home, finding faith in unexpected places, and learning to take the Bible seriously without taking it literally. Will you laugh? Probably (at us). Will you cry? Maybe (not). Will you question how this all came from a Mad Libs game? Absolutely.

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Venison Chili, Reindeer Farms, and the Spirit of Advent

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0000

What is UP, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I got real caffeinated—or maybe it was eggnog—and let the vibes take us wherever they wanted to go. We kicked things off with some personal life updates (Bo got banished to an RV for being too large and loud at Christmas, and I'm navigating the trials of doing dishes with a teenager sleeping underneath the kitchen). Then we nerded out HARD on Christmas movie power rankings after a heated debate at my cigar lounge—Christmas Vacation took the crown, obviously, but Fellowship of the Ring is a Christmas movie and I will die on that hill. The real magic happened when we completely improvised a Hallmark Christmas movie Mad Libs-style, and let me tell you, it got WILD: we've got an Episcopal deacon named Felicia, her problematic Pfizer-rep boyfriend Ted who's getting his faith formation from Jordan Peterson, and a hunky Canadian taxidermist named Clayton who runs a reindeer farm, serves venison chili at the "Roadkill Cafe," and owns a three-legged poodle named Lucky. There's fires, no room at the inn, Georgia Satellites karaoke, and theological debates about female ordination. We wrapped up with our favorite Christmas hymns (Oh Holy Night supremacy!), Bo's discovery that contemporary Christian Christmas mashups actually slap, and the revelation that AI thinks Bo is a "kenotic scholar"—which, honestly, same. Next week: Christmas party with Kate Flynn, cigars of the year, and I'm dramatically reading our Hallmark script. Merry Advent, nerds!

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Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism.

Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything.

This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.HomebrewedClasses.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Taylor Swift, Bach, and the Death of Mainline Protestantism

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:50:00 -0000

What is up, Theology Nerds? Bo and I kicked off this week's episode from my pop-up ice fishing tent in 39-degree rain—complete with my new "professional lighting" that makes it look like I'm telling ghost stories—because that's just how we roll. We dove into our Spotify Wrapped numbers (156% audience growth, baby!). We discovered that our listeners are simultaneously jamming to Taylor Swift, Bach, and Bob Dylan while devouring Jen Hatmaker and Dan McClellan audiobooks. After a spirited throwdown over whether you should sing Christmas songs before Christmas Eve (spoiler: the liturgical fundamentalists are losing the war on Advent), Tripp unleashed an AI-generated slam poetry performance comparing process theology to Calvinism that may have broken something in all of us. Then we got into the real stuff—why so many evangelicals have never encountered liberation theology, why institutional reform feels impossible (hint: systems are designed for the outcomes they produce, not accidentally broken), and why trying to change the church from within is like sawing off the branch you're standing on from the wrong side. We wrapped with some announcements about Theology Beer Camp 2025 in Kansas City and my usual plea: read the red letters, people.

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The Hour of Gratefulness

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:59:00 -0000

Here's our Thanksgiving episode with some vital jazzercise energy and a whole lot of carnitas-shaking—you're welcome for that visual. But then we got into the real stuff: like how exhausting it is when every single day brings another thing that would've ended any other administration, and how our outrage sensors are so fried we might miss the moment things shift from "different in degree" to "different in kind." We talked about ICE raids emptying classrooms and what it means to show up for our neighbors. But since Bo told me we had to do gratitude, we pivoted to the stuff that fills us up—mentors who shaped us, the regulars who show up in the chat every week, and the beautiful weirdos at Theology Beer Camp. I shared how the homebrewed grannies became a spontaneous hug ministry for folks returning to church after being hurt, and honestly, my eyes watered while reading about it.

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Blood, Wounds, and Watch Words: A Deep Dive into Radical Moravian Theology

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:00:00 -0000

What a fun convo! Bo and I were joined by Rev. Dr. Chaz Snider, a Moravian Minister and Radical Theologian for some nerdy goodness. We started with something that's been keeping me up at night: the dangerous decoupling of Jewish identity from Israeli identity in certain conservative circles, and how this might unleash a kind of naked antisemitism we haven't seen in over a century. From there, we dove deep into Moravian theology with my friend Chaz, who just defended his dissertation on Zinzendorf and radical theology. We explored everything from the wounds of Christ to ecumenical mysticism, talked about how the Moravians survived centuries of violence as a peace church, and wrestled with what it means to maintain radical faith in a world that wants you to conform. Plus, we touched on American-style racism versus European ethno-nationalism, the problem with identity politics outside a liberal framework, and why the Moravian daily texts might just be the devotional practice we all need right now.

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Truck Stops Without Trucks & Churches Without Christians

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:15:00 -0000

Well folks, we started off talking about Bucky's (the truck stop that doesn't allow trucks - make it make sense), but then things got real when I shared about this secret squirrel meeting I went to about combating white Christian nationalism in Idaho. Bo and I went deep on religious pluralism, why evangelicals suddenly love Mormons when they run for president, and how my Muslim friend made me a better Christian dad during lockdown. We also covered the wild story about Kentuckians trying to vote in an election that didn't exist (they really wanted to vote against Mondaire), Trump flags mysteriously disappearing from Bo's neighborhood after some military comments, and somehow ended up talking about 98 Degrees doing cover songs because they ran out of their own hits. Yeah, it's a ramble-fest, but that's what you're here for, right? See you in Valhalla, brother.

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Why Your 'Biblical' Christianity Might Just Be Colonial Nonsense

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:08:00 -0000

Wow, this episode was a wild ride! Bo and I kicked things off recapping the absolute magic that was Theology Beer Camp in St. Paul - seriously, the energy this year was different, more connected, more like a family reunion of podcast nerds day-drinking and talking theology. Then we dove into what really gets my blood boiling: this whole restorationist fantasy that we can just skip over 2,000 years of church history and get back to some "pure" Christianity. Like, have these folks even read Acts? The whole book is basically the Holy Spirit dragging the apostles kicking and screaming into a bigger vision than they ever imagined! We talked about how the church has evolved on huge issues - slavery being the prime example - and how claiming "the Bible clearly says" usually means you're about to ignore how the Spirit has been moving. The conversation got pretty heated when we discussed how American Christianity often can't tell the difference between its own cultural agenda and God's actual mission. Oh, and apparently Pope Francis is getting dangerously close to endorsing liberation theology, which honestly, about time!

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The One Where We Tried Something New and It Mostly Worked

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:15:00 -0000

We opened up the Zoom room and let listeners bring whatever questions they wanted, which turned into one of those sprawling conversations that goes from Karl Popper's tolerance paradox to the unique trauma of rapture theology to whether algae-filled church toilets are connected to the hot water line. Josh Patterson kicked us off asking about progressive intolerance, which led Bo to brilliantly distinguish between liberalism and liberation. We got into how algorithms are making us all more ideologically rigid, why trans identity seems to be the sticky wicket for some progressives, and how cultural context is basically non-negotiable for reading scripture well. Bo told war stories from the 1994 rapture predictions, I shared the origin story of The Road to Edmond film, and we gave Julian some real talk about finding your lane in ministry. Plus: Lord of the Rings rapid-fire questions, the purpose of eight-foot paper mache Jesus heads, and Bo's benediction about cold toilet water. You know, normal theology podcast stuff.

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Against Empathy: When Christians Declare Compassion a Vice

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:42:00 -0000

Bo and I dive deep into a controversial AP article about Christian conservatives declaring empathy a vice - yeah, you heard that right. We unpack how figures like Ali Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney are arguing that empathy has become a "cudgel for the left," leading Christians to affirm sin and support destructive policies. But here's where it gets interesting: Bo thinks this whole anti-empathy movement is actually a smokescreen for deeper issues around personal versus structural sin, and how progressive and conservative Christians are operating with completely non-overlapping theological frameworks. We explore how politics has gotten upstream of religion, the role of floating signifiers that muddy genuine dialogue, and why both sides seem to be talking past each other on everything from immigration to school lunches. Plus, I share some wild stories from the New England Cigar Expo (including knight fighting - seriously), and we announce some exciting changes coming to Theology Beer Camp 2025, including pre-recorded lectures and liter steins for the presenters. Spoiler alert: by the end, Bo's feeling like a deflated balloon about the state of American discourse, and honestly, I don't blame him.

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Religion Before Language: Why We Danced Before We Believed

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0000

So we're LIVE at the Common Market in Charlotte, drinking craft beverages and fielding questions from the Speaking to a Modern World conference, which means we're ping-ponging between topics faster than your algorithm-addled attention span. Josh starts us off playing voice of the people, then we trade him for Leah Robinson, who's delightfully willing to interrupt me when I get too deep in the philosophical weeds. We tackle everything from what the hell "modernity" actually means (hint: it's not just Protestants arguing about beliefs), to why religion emerged before language as a solution to mammalian cooperation problems, to how process theology offers a different way through deconstruction than Nietzsche's lonely child-making. Tom and I explain why we think classical theism's omnipotent God is actually less helpful than you'd think, we get into the weeds on sacrificial language and atonement theory, and Leah keeps us honest about whether all our philosophical specificity is just academic masturbation or actually useful for people trying to figure out how to live. Plus we discover that getting kicked out of the Nazarenes gives you mixed feelings but doesn't automatically make you drink beer.

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Heidegger Dreams and Chicken Interruptions: An Onto-Theological Throwdown

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:41:00 -0000

Bo and I dove deep into onto-theology after he texted me wanting to explore its "upside" - which led to a sprawling conversation about everything from James Dobson's recent death and its impact on evangelical parenting, to Taylor Swift's engagement, to my chickens interrupting the show. We unpacked how onto-theology (the problematic conflation of Being itself with a supreme being) actually offers important critiques of theological overconfidence, exploring how thinkers like Caputo and Westphal use Heidegger's insights differently. Along the way, we wrestled with whether faith can maintain intellectual integrity in a post-Enlightenment world, discussed the violence embedded in certain models of divine sovereignty and parenting, and considered how the ontological difference between Being and beings challenges our theological certainty. Plus, I confessed to Bo about a wild Heidegger dream involving cartoon beer logos, and we plan future episodes on contemporary worship songs and a live Zoom chat with our regular listeners

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Love at the Center: Tom Oord's Systematic Theology Project

Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:58:00 -0000

In this episode, I sit down with my longtime friend Tom Oord, who's in the middle of writing what might be the first ever systematic theology with "love" right there in the title. We dove deep into how systematic theology actually works - you know, the difference between someone like Wayne Grudem who treats the Bible like a collection of proof texts versus Paul Tillich who's doing this whole apologetic dance with existentialism. Tom's taking this fascinating approach where he's putting love at the very center from the get-go. We talked about how every systematic theology reveals the theologian's situatedness - whether that's the parade of white, male, Reformed voices dominating the bestseller lists, or how Tom's own journey of getting kicked out of evangelical spaces for advocating LGBTQ inclusion shapes his work. The conversation got really good when we dug into the practical stuff too - like how theology has to grapple with Jesus's either/or between God and mammon, and why the incarnation can't just be abstract doctrine but has to flood into ethics immediately. Plus, Tom's doing this wild thing where he's putting his rough drafts on Substack and letting people tear them apart in real time, which honestly takes more guts than I'd have.

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Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology.

Some Previous Tripp & Tom Pods

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From Epstein to Palestine: The Common Thread of Basic Decency

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:32:00 -0000

Wow, what a wild ride this turned out to be! Bo and I got into the religious landscape after I shared this crazy sticky note revelation I had at the cigar lounge - connecting Jeffrey Epstein conspiracies and Palestine through the lens of basic human decency and institutional trust. We ended up unpacking everything from why young people are abandoning religion (spoiler: it's not just youthful rebellion) to the difference between being "spiritual but not religious" versus actual consumer spirituality. Bo dropped some brilliant insights about how we're hardwired for religious behavior but living in a post-religious age where belief has become just another consumer choice. Plus, we tackled a mountain of listener questions about mega churches, the future of mainline denominations, and whether millennials will ever come back to organized religion. Honestly, between Bo's recent religious trauma research, my flooding basement, and our shared frustration with reductive atheists who claim love isn't real, this felt more like group therapy than theology. But hey, that's what makes good conversation!

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Bible Bonanza: What Verses Should Actually Be Read in Schools

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:08:00 -0000

What's up Theology Nerds! We're back from vacation and home renovations with a special Bible bonanza episode that's equal parts hilarious and thought-provoking. Bo and I are tackling the issue of mandatory Bible reading in schools by collecting suggestions from listeners about which verses should be read if we're going down this road. We got calls from Finland to Britain with everything from Jesus's upside-down teachings about greatness through service, to some truly awkward Old Testament passages that definitely won't make it past the school board. Along the way we dive into why pulling random Bible verses out of context is like grabbing ingredients from the fridge and calling it a meal, discuss how publishers shape our reading through chapter headings, and explore what it might actually look like if we took Jesus's radical teachings seriously. Plus Bo gets trapped in his studio when his door handle breaks, I'm surrounded by dancing chickens, and we somehow end up talking about whether Christianity's future is mystical or nonexistent. It's theology, humor, and some surprisingly deep insights about scripture, power, and what we're really afraid of when we talk about moral decline.

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"You Met One Pharaoh, You Met 'Em All" - Remembering Walter Brueggemann

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:43:00 -0000

What's up theology nerds! When we lost the legendary Walter Brueggemann, I knew we had to do a proper tribute to one of the most influential biblical scholars of our time. I'm joined by Bo and Rolf Jacobson from Luther Seminary for a deep dive into Walter's life and work - this is the guy who somehow managed to have both mega-nerd street cred in the academy AND pastors across the country whose preaching was transformed by his books. We explore how Walter revolutionized biblical theology by showing us a God who's relational, passionate, and takes sides (goodbye, distant philosophical absolutes), his famous disagreements with Terence Fretheim about divine freedom versus fidelity, and how "The Prophetic Imagination" is really about hope and alternative consciousness, not scolding people. Rolf shares incredible stories about Walter's pastoral heart, we discuss his brilliant interdisciplinary work that connected everything from Paul Ricoeur to economic theory, and we talk about his scathing critique of American capitalism (the golden calf in front of Wall Street is basically God trolling American Christians about their idolatry). Whether you know Walter from "The Prophetic Imagination" or you're just discovering him, this conversation captures why he was so special - a scholar who made ancient texts dangerous again and showed us that the God of the Bible is way more interesting, subversive, and liberating than we usually dare to believe. As Walter would say to his grandkids about the manna story: "You are not children of scarcity, you're children of abundance - don't forget it."

If you want to get access to the Introduction to the Old Testament class with Dr. Brueggemann, head over to ⁠TheologyClass.com⁠

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Books by Brueggemann that we mention

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⁠Dr. Rolf A. Jacobson⁠ is the Professor of Old Testament and the Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry at Luther Seminary.

Previous Episodes with Dr. Jacobson

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The Great Untethering: Why Everything Feels Fake

Fri, 30 May 2025 16:19:00 -0000

Bo comes back from an epic 22-year tradition canoe trip in the Adirondacks - complete with black flies, hypothermia, and some serious Type 2 fun - and drops maybe his most intense opening riff ever. We're talking democracy, pornography, evangelicalism, the economy, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn't mean what it used to mean anymore. Bo's got this theory about "floating signifiers" - basically things that have become untethered from their original meaning and are just floating around causing confusion and cultural chaos. From Methodists who don't do the methods to evangelicals who've been unmasked, from the gold standard to the stock market that may or may not actually exist, we dive deep into why nothing feels real anymore and why everyone's either retreating into romanticized nostalgia or getting lost in word policing. Plus: Ninja Turtle personality tests, the nine-by-nine-by-nine baseball challenge, and why Trip thinks we need to focus on basic material reality instead of fighting endless identity battles. It's a wild ride that somehow ends with a constructive Triple-A framework for moving forward.

You can WATCH the conversation (&30 extra minutes) on YouTube

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Tending to Questions: A More Hopeful Future for Liberal Faith

Sat, 10 May 2025 10:00:00 -0000

What's up Theology Nerds! This week on TNT, Bo and I kick things off with the breaking news about the new American Pope from Chicago (perfect timing for a Bear's Super Bowl win?) before diving into a deep theological conversation about the future of liberal Christianity. Following last week's rather pessimistic outlook, we explore more hopeful possibilities for revitalizing liberal theology. We discuss the potential of engaging the cultural desire for re-enchantment, reclaiming myth, and adopting what Gary Dorrien calls "metaphysical courage" - making strong theological claims while maintaining intellectual humility. Bo and I nerd out HARD on Paul Ricœur's approach to reading sacred texts, discussing how he calls us to be hermeneutical interpreters, phenomenologists who bracket assumptions, and theological thinkers who allow ourselves to be appropriated by the text. We explore how religious truth functions more as a "porous knowledge" than propositional certainty, and why tending to questions might be more important than providing answers. This episode gets into some legit philosophical territory (with special shoutouts to David Tracy, who passed away this week). If you've been feeling a bit hopeless about the state of liberal Christianity, this conversation might just offer some theological fuel for your journey.

You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube

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Does Liberal Christianity Have a Future?

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:33:00 -0000

What's up, Theology Nerds! In this episode, Bo and I tackle the existential question: "Does Liberal Christianity Have a Future?" Spoiler alert: Bo doesn't think it does, and his explanation involves both elevators and human eardrums! We dive into the fascinating history and predicaments of liberal theology, exploring why churches with endowed organs might be spiritually starving. I share five theological predicaments identified by scholars like Catherine Keller and Steven Webb (who inspired Bo to drop a mic with his observation that liberal theology is "too secular for believers, too religious for secularists, and too academic for non-theologians").

Bo confessed his own struggles with Bible literacy and shared some pushback from his congregation about a sermon suggesting people shouldn't read the Bible alone. We unpack the cultural shifts making mainline Protestantism increasingly obsolete - from the sociology of Sundays to the commodification of identity. Bo introduces his "perfect storm" theory about why liberalism's prioritization of the individual creates an irreconcilable tension with Christianity's commitment to community in our consumer capitalist context. This episode gets nerdy, punchy, and occasionally brutal in our assessment, but we're saving our potential solutions for next time!

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State Mandated Bible Verses & Chronic Lonliness

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:07:00 -0000

What's up Theology Nerds! Today's episode goes all over the place - from Easter rituals to mandatory Bible readings, with plenty of religious baggage unpacked along the way.

Bo starts us off with his discomfort over some potentially mandatory Bible reading legislation in Idaho (which I kept confusing with Iowa - my bad, flyover state friends). This leads to a fascinating discussion about religious literacy versus using religion as a tool of conformity and exclusion in education systems.

We share some personal stories - including my "Resurrection Smoke-a-thon" Easter tradition with themed cigars and smoked meats (because nothing says "resurrection" like brisket and tobacco), and Bo's frustration with having the EXACT SAME conversation with locals every week as a Methodist minister in a community where only 4-6% of people would ever consider attending his church.

The loneliness epidemic gets real as Bo talks about eating Easter dinner alone and the challenge of building meaningful relationships when you know the denomination will move you in 5 years. We unpack how late-stage capitalism is shredding our social fabric, delaying home ownership and family formation, which historically provided entry points to community.

In true TNT fashion, we tangent into:

The toxic effects of social media (seriously, studies show quitting improves your mental health as much as TWO YEARS of quality therapy)
A proposed Bible Quiz Bowl showdown at Theology Beer Camp featuring recovering Sword Drill champions
My college-era protest of wearing an Ezekiel 23:20 t-shirt to a Bible inerrancy event (the verse about donkey genitals...)
The passing of Pope Francis and his open-handed approach to Catholic tradition
Post-liberal theology, narrative approaches to scripture, and creeds as questions rather than conclusions

For our next episode, we're bringing back the topic we skipped today: "Does Liberal Theology Have a Future?" Also, we want YOU to send us audio recordings making the case for which Bible verses should be mandatory reading if schools start requiring it. The more interesting your take, the more likely we'll feature it! CLICK HERE TO SEND A MESSAGE

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Until next time, keep thinking deeply and drinking good beer!

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Theology Beer Camp | St. Paul, MN | October 16-18, 2025

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The question Jesus asked his disciples still resonates today: "Who do you say that I am?"

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The BoDaddy Confessional: Faith, Cat Posters, and Tom Bombadil

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:00:00 -0000

In this episode, we were joined by surprise guest Josh Patterson from the Rethinking Faith Podcast, who subjects Bo to his signature "20 Questions" game. The conversation ranges from lighthearted to profound as Bo considers which biblical book he would eliminate, which religious figure would make the worst associate pastor, and why he remains a Christian despite doubts. The discussion weaves through topics including Native American spirituality, Tom Bombadil from Lord of the Rings, wild adventures at theology conferences, and questions Bo would ask if Jesus appeared before him. Throughout the conversation, Bo reflects that his continued faith journey has been marked not by steady progress but by fortunate encounters with guides who've helped him stumble forward despite his self-described "train wreck" nature.

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Through the lens of his letters and historical context, we will explore Paul’s understanding of Jesus’ Life-Vision, his interpretation of the Execution-and-Resurrection, and their implications for nonviolence and faithful resistance against empire. Each week, we will delve into a specific aspect of Paul’s theology and legacy, reflecting on its relevance for our own age of autocracy and political turmoil. . For details and to sign-up for any donation, including 0, head over here.

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Dispositional Not Dispensational: on Territorial Spirits & Prayer Walking

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0000

Tripp and Bo dive into a fascinating theological discussion about Daniel 10 and its interpretation in this episode of the Theology Nerd Throwdown. Bo, who is preaching through Daniel, seeks Tripp's insights on how progressive Christians can approach the text's three-tiered cosmology featuring territorial spirits and angelic battles. They explore various ways to understand ancient worldviews without dismissing them, including how some modern Christians have used these concepts for potentially problematic practices like "spiritual mapping" and "prayer walking." The conversation touches on colonialism in missions, cultural sensitivity, and how the same text that describes cosmic battles can be weaponized for xenophobic purposes or reimagined through a lens of cultural humility. Throughout their dialogue, they weave in personal stories about mission trips, theological embarrassments, and how contextual theology might offer better approaches to understanding both ancient texts and cultural differences.

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Theology Beer Camp | St. Paul, MN | October 16-18, 2025

3 Days of Craft Nerdiness with 50+ Theologians & God-Pods and 600 new friends.

A Five-Week Online Lenten Class w/ John Dominic Crossan

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Hang with 40+ Scholars & Podcasts and 600 people at Theology Beer Camp 2025 (Oct. 16-18) in St. Paul, MN.

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Co-Passion & Contemplation

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:48:00 -0000

In this episode, the BoDaddy shares about his co-passion projects in his local community and the struggle to act as a community of faith in our increasingly tribal time. Then they discuss the nature of contemplation versus fascination, sparked by reflections from Tripp's son's school essay and interviews with scholars Kevin Hart and Norman Wirzba. They reflect on the impact of smartphones on our attention, social life, and spiritual well-being, proposing ways to shift from fascination to deeper contemplative living. Along the way, they share humor, personal anecdotes, and a collective plan for conscious technology use during Lent.

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Theology Beer Camp | St. Paul, MN | October 16-18, 2025

3 Days of Craft Nerdiness with 50+ Theologians & God-Pods and 600 new friends.

A Five-Week Online Lenten Class w/ John Dominic Crossan

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Hang with 40+ Scholars & Podcasts and 600 people at Theology Beer Camp 2025 (Oct. 16-18) in St. Paul, MN.

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MAGA is Manifesting a New Civil Religion

Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:40:26 -0000

What exactly is MAGA? In this episode, we dive deep into the movement, not just as a political force, but as a new kind of civil religion. We'll explore the history of self-creation, from Martin Luther to the age of Trump, and how this uniquely American idea shapes the MAGA movement. We'll also unpack the complex relationship between online communities and real connection, the allure of nostalgia, and the very nature of truth in a post-truth era. Join us for a fascinating conversation on the spiritual and cultural forces driving one of the most significant movements in recent history.

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A Five-Week Online Lenten Class w/ John Dominic Crossan

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Bo’s got the gift of Prophecy?

Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000

Bo texted Tripp about preaching through the book of Daniel and some ideas he has about resilience and resistance he wants to discuss. He also has a preterist theory about biblical prophecy. Tripp assumes this is something his church and education experience failed to tell him about. What resulted was a lively discussion on the book of Daniel, exploring its layers of prophetic texts, historical contexts, and theological implications. We dive into Daniel's diet, fiery furnaces, the lions' den, and the interpretations of prophetic visions. This episode offers a fresh perspective on how ancient texts provide relevant insights into consumption, allegiance, and how to navigate uncertain times faithfully. Don't miss Bo explaining his take on preterism, punctuated equilibrium, and how these concepts help make sense of contemporary issues.

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The Tech Takeover: Reimagining Connection in a Digital World

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Tripp & Bo dive deep into the concept of digital colonialism and how tech giants are reshaping human interaction and power dynamics. They explore how data is extracted, processed, and monetized, creating a new colonial class and transforming social relations. Through a critical lens, they discuss the implications for individual autonomy, the erosion of social trust, and potential ways to resist and reimagine our digital lives. Join them for a thought-provoking conversation that challenges the very frameworks of our current digital society.

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The (Never-Ending) Crisis Edition

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:24:00 -0000

On this episode of the Theology Nerd Throwdown, Tripp & Bo dive into a vibrant discussion on the evolving cultural and political landscape. Bo shares his experiences and insights after moving to Idaho, reflecting on conservative backlash and modern conservatism. The duo explores the complexities of liberalism's critics, the fragmentation of society, and the role of community and virtue in an individualistic world. They discuss strategies for reclaiming ecclesiology as upstream of politics and the implications for local congregations. Tune in for a thought-provoking session that bridges theology, philosophy, and contemporary issues.

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In-Carnitas: Have Yourself a Street Taco Christmas

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:58:00 -0000

Bo wants to talk about the incarnation and God's love of flesh. Tripp wants street tacos.

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This Advent season, join us for a unique four-week online class that dives deep into the Advent and Christmas sermons of some of the 20th century’s most provocative theologians: Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann. Known collectively as contributors to the “theology of crisis,” these thinkers wrestled with the significance of the Incarnation in a world marked by upheaval, uncertainty, and hope. The class is online, asynchronous, and donation-based, including 0. www.OhGodWhatNow.net

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Conserva-Curious?

Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:24:00 -0000

Bo doesn't understand the growing attraction of traditional religion. He wants to talk about it.

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Bonhoeffer & Resistance

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:46:00 -0000

Tripp is wrapping up a giant project on Bonhoeffer & wants to tell Bo about the nature of resistance in his work. Bo said, "Be quiet! I want to be surprised."

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This Advent season, join us for a unique four-week online class that dives deep into the Advent and Christmas sermons of some of the 20th century’s most provocative theologians: Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann. Known collectively as contributors to the "theology of crisis," these thinkers wrestled with the significance of the Incarnation in a world marked by upheaval, uncertainty, and hope. The class is online, asyncronous, and donation-based, including 0. www.OhGodWhatNow.net

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The Real Power of Politics Question

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 20:49:00 -0000

Bo wants to talk to Tripp about Power, Politics, and what to do with them.

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The Geek Stage at Theology Beer Camp

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:56:00 -0000

At Theology Beer Camp we had some serious Middle-earth fun, including a liturgy formed within Tolkien's legendarium. I decided to rally a group of friends from the Geek stage to unpack camp and all the Tolkien fun.

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The BoDaddy goes to his first Theology Beer Camp

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:17:00 -0000

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Tripp talks Bonhoeffer and gets fiesty about Eric Metaxas

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:43:00 -0000

Tripp joined Tim from the New Evangelicals podcast to talk about Bonhoeffer. Things got zesty.

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Political Substance Abuse

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:53:00 -0000

Tripp wants to talk to Bo about political substance abuse. Bo said yes. You can too!

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The God Speaks? edition

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:59:00 -0000

Bo wants to talk about God speaking. Tripp said yes. You can nerd out with us.

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Post-Conflict Science & Religion

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:15:00 -0000

Bo wants to talk to Tripp about the current state of Science and Religion as an academic field. What are the current trends in research, and what kinds of debates emerge when you move beyond the conflict narrative? Where's the line between science and metaphysics? How does this impact thinking science-informed theology?

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Putting some Gods to Rest

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:35:00 -0000

On this episode of Theology Nerd Throwdown, Tripp suggests 7 different ideas about God we should put to rest. Bo puts on his Satan horns and does his best devil’s advocate routine as we unpack the ideas and different ways of nuancing the concepts.

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Daddy Votes, Co-Passion, & Processing Prayer

Mon, 05 Aug 2024 14:47:00 -0000

In this engaging episode of Theology Nerd Throwdown, hosts Tripp and Bo tackle a range of topics, including the concept of prayer, JD Vance being Biblically illiterate, the redefinition of family in the New Testament, and innovative models for community service. They discuss the idea of 'co-passion' ministries and the impact of nostalgia on religious institutions and share personal stories of ministry and prayer. The episode features thoughtful dialogue on integrating process theology, and offers insights into the evolving mission of the church in contemporary society. Tune in for a rich conversation that blends humor, theological reflection, and practical ministry ideas. 00:00 Introduction and Morning Banter 00:54 Discussing JD Vance and Voting Rights 02:09 Bo's Internet Hiatus and Viral Video 05:24 Jesus and the Concept of Family 10:12 Nostalgia and the Ideal Family 14:51 Challenges in Religious Communities 28:25 Holiness and Relational Understanding 35:06 Promoting Theology Beer Camp 40:09 Decolonizing Evangelicalism: A Follow-Up 40:59 Planning for Future Conversations 42:07 A Story About Prayer 43:38 The Power of Community Closets 48:28 The Dynamics of Prayer and Cooperation 01:03:06 Reimagining Ministry: Co-Passion and Co-Mission 01:05:48 Brainstorming and Collaboration 01:15:03 Humorous Reflections and Wrap-Up

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Bo’s Backlash & Adolescence without a Smart Phone

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:15:07 -0000

In this episode, Bo recounts an experience of backlash during an academic session. That triggered some other memories of live events gone wild:) Plus, Tripp and Bo discuss adolescence without smart phones and being ministers when they reshaped ministry.

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What’s Your Theological Sample Rate?

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 16:04:54 -0000

In this episode, Bo reflects on his own deconstruction story, the pace of spiritual change in America, and drops a sweet audiological image. Tripp pitches his deconstruction typology and gets Bo to power rank 3 different theologians’ definition of theology.

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The Post-Easter, Mo-Easter Edition

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 16:43:34 -0000

On this edition of the Theology Nerd Throwdown, Tripp & Bo nerd out about…

post-Covid Easter worship
the United Methodist Breakup over LGBTQ inclusion
how frustrating LOTS of aging institutions can get
the connection between the Religious Nones & Political Independents
how the BoDaddy plans to demolish all beer-chugging challengers at Theology Beer Camp
Tripp gives Bo 6 thesis for understanding the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead & Bo gets him to explain and unpack them
why Bo loves “AL” theologically
why the conservative obsession with the physical resurrection and liberal naturalizing of the resurrection trigger Tripp theologically

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Bo’s new podcast exploring the legacy of his Father Dr. Martin Sanders can be found here.

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Reversing the Goat & Baking Bread on Theology Nerd Throwdown

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:34:36 -0000

Tripp and Bo nerd out and discuss preaching the atonement, liturgical frames, baking bread with kids, theological shoewear, and a Styper-themed show-and-tell.

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Bo’s new podcast exploring the legacy of his Father Dr. Martin Sanders can be found here.

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The Fruit and Roots of Cultural Change on Theology Nerd Throwdown

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:29:29 -0000

Tripp & Bo discuss the most significant changes in culture and religion over the last few years.

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Lenten Online Class w/ John Dominic Crossan

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Theology Nerd Throwdown – The Return of the BoDaddy!

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:36:46 -0000

It is time for a Theology Nerd Throwdown! That’s right, the original TNT co-host is back! We have some fun catching up on the world of Bo Sanders, his moves to Portland, and his new Methodist appointment in Idaho. Next week, we will be back live to nerd out with our geeks out. Get ready.

Lenten Online Class w/ John Dominic Crossan

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Homebrewed Christianity’s 15th Birthday Party w/ the BoDaddy & Tony Jones

Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:26:56 -0000

the BoDaddy Returns + I battle Tony Jones inÂ au contraire mon frÃ¨re + Longtime listeners & friends in the chat = EPIC 15th Birthday Party for Homebrewed Christianity.

I am so extremely grateful for the community around the podcast and the wonderful people who have become friends over the last 15 years. You can keep up with the fresh stuff Bo Sanders is doing here and follow Tony Jones’ work here.

The last 15 minutes of this episode are very important to me. There I give a toast to my original co-host Chad Crawford and then give a tipsy sermonic reflection on friendship. It wasn’t planned, but it does capture my love for

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Process This: the Power of Love & the Experience of God w/ Tom Oord & Andrew Davis

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 03:19:56 -0000

Some pretty cool listeners sent a bunch of Process Theology questions & I got two #ProcessParty friends and scholars to hop on and answer them.

Both Tom Oord and Andrew Davis will be at Theology Beer Camp and an upcoming event in Napa, CA – Power & the God of Love.

Andrew M. Davis is a philosopher, theologian and scholar of world religions. He is Program Director for the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University. A native of northern California, he was born and raised among the towering redwoods of Occidental and the meandering woodlands of Santa Rosaâ€™s Bennett Valley. It was out of these natural settings that his passion for the questions of philosophy, theology, and religion first emerged.

Check out Andrew’s previous visit to the podcast here – Mind, Value, and the Cosmos.

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is an award-winning author, and he has written or edited more than twenty-five books. Oord directs a doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary and the Center for Open and Relational Theology. He won the Outstanding Faculty Award twelve times as a full-time professor and now speaks at institutions across the globe. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, and freedom and relationships for transformation.

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My interview with PSR President, David VÃ¡squez-Levy, can be found over here.

Some Previous Tripp & Tom Pods

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Godly QnA

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 19:12:31 -0000

Grace Ji-Sun Kim is back on the podcast to help me tackle some listener questions. We had a lot of fun as a theological tag team, and if you want to hang out with us, you can come to Theology Beer Camp! When registering for the event, drop the code MADANG for $50 off.

Check out my visit to Graceâ€™s podcast â€“Hereâ€™s the audio & hereâ€™sÂ Madang on YouTube?

Grace Ji-Sun Kim is Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion. She received her M.Div. from Knox College and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is the author or editor of 19 books most recently, Keeping Hope Alive; Intersectional Theology co-written with Susan Shaw and Embracing the Other. Kim is a Series Editor for Palgrave Macmillan Series, â€œAsian Christianity in the Diasporaâ€. Eerdmans included her in their list of Five Great Women Scholars, and the Englewood Review of Books named her in their list of Ten Important Women Theologians You Should Be Reading

Previous Episodes with Grace

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Diana Butler Bass: the Over-Rated Genie God

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:29:10 -0000

Diana Bass is back on the podcast for a session of our ongoing series â€œRuining Dinner.â€ We talk about religion and politics with a bunch of zest. Normally these conversations are for our community members, but we decided to share this one far and wide to invite you to come hang with us at Theology Beer Camp. Join us and a bunch of other â€œGod Podsâ€ at Theology Beer Camp this October 13-15. You can get $50 bucks off by using our code RUININGDINNER. More than coming to Camp, I wanted to lure you to join Dianaâ€™s Cottage community. If you join up she will give you a super secret discount for a $100 off camp! Head over here to become a supporting member of the cottage, and she will hook you up. Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp Bad Blood, Civil War, and other Soothing Topics Shall the Fundies (Keep) Winning?, Abortion, and Black Holes Theology and Spirituality in a Time of Rupture White Evangelical Theopolitics, John Shelby Spong, & Jesus 20 Years of Religious Decline Jesus After Religion and Beyond Fear Ruining Dinner with Diana Butler Bass and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza Evangelical Decline, the Supreme Court, and the Horizon of Possibility Debating, Praying, and Living with Tyrants Religion, Politics, & the Elephant in the Room

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Camp Games & a Little Theology

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 19:34:38 -0000

Tony Jones is back for some friend time and a little theology. In this conversation we discuss…

Why Theology Beer Camp is gonna be awesome / drop that code REVHUNT for $50 off
Mainline Protestant Bible Drills & Participation Trophies
Tony and I discuss our potential new Old Man opinion
How to develop a hunting liturgy – the episode with Murphy Robinson Tony mentions
Books we have been rereading — Dune, God in Creation, and Children of Darkness, Children of Light
We are also readingÂ How Gods Become Real and short stories from Ted Chiang
the struggle of Dad Friending
Tony wants to play farkle at Camp and then all sorts of youth game discussion takes place
Tripp discusses helping Trey Pearson do his first keg stand at Progressive Youth Ministry

This episode is sponsored by PROGRESSIVE YOUTH MINISTRY.Â You can join me and a bunch of progressive youth ministers in Atlanta this coming February.

Tony Jones is the author of Did God Kill Jesus? and contributing writer to several outdoors periodicals. Heâ€™s written a dozen books, including The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier and The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, developed the iPhone app, hosts the Reverend Hunter Podcast, and teaches at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Tony is a sought after speaker and consultant in the areas of emerging church, postmodernism, and Christian spirituality, writing, and the outdoors. He served as a consultant on the television show, The Path, and he owns an event planning company, Crucible Creative.

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Diana Butler Bass: Bad Blood, Civil War, and other Soothing Topics

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:54:41 -0000

Diana Bass is back on the podcast for a session of our ongoing series “Ruining Dinner.” We talk about religion and politics with a bunch of zest. Normally these conversations are for our community members, but we decided to share this one far and wide to invite you to come hang with us at Theology Beer Camp. Join us and a bunch of other “God Pods” at Theology Beer Camp this October 13-15. You can get $50 bucks off by using our code RUININGDINNER. More than coming to Camp, I wanted to lure you to join Diana’s Cottage community. If you join up she will give you a super secret discount for a $100 off camp! Head over here to become a supporting member of the cottage, and she will hook you up. Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp Shall the Fundies (Keep) Winning?, Abortion, and Black Holes Theology and Spirituality in a Time of Rupture White Evangelical Theopolitics, John Shelby Spong, & Jesus 20 Years of Religious Decline Jesus After Religion and Beyond Fear Ruining Dinner with Diana Butler Bass and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza Evangelical Decline, the Supreme Court, and the Horizon of Possibility Debating, Praying, and Living with Tyrants Religion, Politics, & the Elephant in the Room

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Thomas Jay Oord: Process Theology QnA

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 14:58:13 -0000

We just finished theÂ Christianity in ProcessÂ class with John Cobb and had a bunch of lingering questions. So I called in my friend and super nerd, Tom Oord, for a little Process Theology QnA. These questions were all submitted by class members, but they ended up inspiring a conversation worth sharing. Plus, Tom and I have been doing a series of “Big God Questions” on the podcast and rarely get past 3 or 4 questions. In this convo we double our normal effort

Some Previous Tripp & Tom Pods

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EuroTripp’n Tony

Mon, 16 May 2022 03:05:53 -0000

Tripp and Tony connect after their spring family outings and share stories before Tony gives some quality guidance for the Fuller Family’s upcoming trip Rome. Things we discuss…

Plans for Theology Beer Camp & how to dominate the God-Box
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Tony shares about his time with his daughter in Turkey
Tripp discusses his family trip to Paris and Belgium
Tripp shares about his Truman Show nightmare
Tony gives a very thorough guide to visiting Rome. I am now double pumped about it!
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You check out Tony’s writing retreat to Rome here.

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim & Susan Shaw: What is Intersectional Theology?

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:29:39 -0000

This was a live homebrewed happy hour with two friends of the pod delivered now for your enjoyment! We discuss their co-authored book Intersectional Theology and then answer questions live from the stream.

Susan M. Shaw is professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Oregon State University. She is author of God Speaks to Us, Too: Southern Baptist Women on Church, Home, and Society and Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide.

Grace Ji-Sun Kim is Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion. She received her M.Div. from Knox College and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is the author or editor of 19 books most recently, Keeping Hope Alive; Intersectional Theology co-written with Susan Shaw and Embracing the Other. Kim is a Series Editor for Palgrave Macmillan Series, “Asian Christianity in the Diaspora”. Eerdmans included her in their list of Five Great Women Scholars, and the Englewood Review of Books named her in their list of Ten Important Women Theologians You Should Be Reading

You can check out Susan Shaw’s previous visit where we talk a bit about the book here: Susan Shaw: the story of a Process Southern Baptist Feminist

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Joerg Rieger: Jesus vs Caesar

Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:23:54 -0000

When we observe a tension between Jesus and Caesar, we acknowledge that a fundamental tension remains at the heart of Christianity. The tension is not between religion and atheism or secularism. Nor is it between organized religion and personal spirituality or between Christianity and other religions. The tension is located within the heart of Christianity itself because it is a radical conflict between faith that is life-giving for all and faith that is damaging and destructive of people and the earth. In our conversation and his book Jesus vs Caesar, Rieger powerfully guides us into this tension.

Joerg and I are joining the Christ Among the Disciplines Online Conference and you can too!

Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair of Wesleyan Studies. He is also the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice.

For more than two decades he has worked to bring together theology and the struggles for justice and liberation that mark our age. His work addresses the relation of theology and public life, reflecting on the misuse of power in religion, politics, and economics. His main interest is in developments and movements that bring about change and in the positive contributions of religion and theology. His constructive work in theology draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary traditions, with a concern for manifestations of the divine in the pressures of everyday life.

Wendland-Cook Religion and Justice Program … is an interdisciplinary program located at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. We focus on issues of justice that arise at the intersection of religion, economics, and ecology.

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Trilogies, Atonement Power Rankings, & Sex Work at Happy Hour

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:58:25 -0000

This is a Homebrewed Happy Hour in which I am joined by my friends Dan Koch & Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie.

This is an adult conversation with friends. Don’t listen with kids. Don’t listen if you don’t like potty language and bad jokes. Ohh and I said the phrase “5 shart Barthian.”

To get invites to future happy hours check the HBC FB page. To get the second half of the conversation in your private podcast feed join the Homebrewed Community.

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Everyone You Ever Loved Will Die, so Merry Christmas!

Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:13:51 -0000

The holidays are here and you know what that means?

Awkward conversations about religion and politics with family, friends, and coworkers.

Today on the podcast I am bringing you some wisdom… rules even… from two friends who work at the intersection of religion and the psychological sciences. Sarah Lane Ritchie and Kutter Callaway were part of the live podcast last week in San Diego and after hearing these ‘rules’ for the holidays, I knew I needed to share them ASAP.

The live event included a bunch of other segments that engaged an upcoming filmÂ J.E.S.U.A.Â The rest of the podcast will come out near the release of the film. I moved the rules from the end of the conversation to the beginning, so after that segment you will go back in time to the beginning of my chat with Sarah and Kutter.

Here are the 7 rules.

You are NOT your ideas
Prioritize Sleep
Make Yourself Start (or keep) Meditating (here’s the Examen app I mentioned)
Be a Documentarian – talk by listening
Acknowledge Their Trauma… including being in a family with you and your deconstructive path
Remember Everyone You See and Love Will Die
Criticism is a Form of Pursuit

This episode was sponsored by the upcoming documentary film J.E.S.U.S.A.Â

J.E.S.U.S.A. is an in-depth exploration of the relationship between Christianity and American nationalism and the violence that can often emerge from it. Far from a new phenomenon, this documentary traces the co-opting of Christianity by the state all the way back to when the Christian faith became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Through interviews with a diverse group of scholars, pastors, historians, and activists, this film shows how specific readings of the Bible have led many Christians to confuse their devotion to Jesus with their dedication to the state. The film helps viewers rediscover and restore long-held Christian beliefs regarding nonviolence, inspiring Christians to become purveyors of peace rather than enablers of conflict and violence.

The documentary will be released for general viewing on February 25, 2020, and will be available on many streaming platforms for rental or purchase.

If you wish to help organize a showing for your church or organization, please contact the production team here.

The film includes some amazing people like David Bentley Hart,Â Suzanne Ross,Â Brian Zahnd,Â Osheta Moore, Diana Butler Bass, Greg Boyd, and many more.

Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie is Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Science and Religion from the University of Edinburgh, where her doctoral work focused on the question of divine action inÂ the human mind. A Michigander by birth, Sarah also holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Spring Arbor University, an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an MSc in Science and Religion from the University of Edinburgh. Her published work focuses on questions arising from the intersection of theology, philosophy, and the various brain-related sciences. Sarahâ€™s research interests include divine action, philosophy of mind, naturalism, cognitive science of religion, and the psychology of belief formation.

Dr. Kutter Callaway Â is associate professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary and Co-Director of Reel Spirituality. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Atheism: Theology and Imagination in Contemporary Culture, Deep Focus: Film and Theology in Dialogue, Watching TV Religiously: Television and Theology in Dialogue, Scoring Transcendence: Contemporary Film Music as Religious Experience, and Breaking the Marriage Idol: Reconstructing Our Cultural and Spiritual Norms. Prior to teaching at Fuller, Callaway served in pastoral ministry for nearly a decade, focusing primarily on young and emerging adults.

He frequently hosts or participates in public conversations about religion, spirituality, and culture with artists, filmmakers, and industry leaders.

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Kombucha, Meditation, Tarot, and Stink Bombs

Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:36:48 -0000

It is time to NERD OUT with your GEEK OUT!

In this episode I am joined by my colleague and friend Dr. Sarah lane Ritchie. She was on the podcast this past summer and since moving to Edinburgh we’ve been planning to record again, so here it is.

At the beginning of the episode Sarah answers a question a number of you sent in about the different Religion and Science degrees offered here at the University of Edinburgh. Here’s info for the online Philosophy, Science and Religion Masters, the on campus taught Masters, and research based Masters and PhD Degrees.

From there we end up discussing a number of different topics, largely based off questions I received including…

Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie is Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Edinburgh. She has a PhD in Science and Religion from the University of Edinburgh, where her doctoral work focused on the question of divine action in the human mind. A Michigander by birth, Sarah also holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion from Spring Arbor University, an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an MSc in Science and Religion from the University of Edinburgh. Her published work focuses on questions arising from the intersection of theology, philosophy, and the various brain-related sciences. Sarah’s research interests include divine action, philosophy of mind, naturalism, cognitive science of religion, and the psychology of belief formation.

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:02:21 -0000

Guess what theology nerds?

This is a special announcement.

I have just accepted a position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. There I will be part of a John Templeton Foundation project, God and the Book of Nature: Building a Science-Engaged Theology of Nature. It is hard to exaggerate how excited I am about this position and the opportunity to work in theological education. On top of that I will be able to interact and connect with a host of new voices for the podcast, across the pond.

It really is a dream come true for this theology nerd.

Here’s where I would absolutely love your help.

Taking an entry level academic position at a prestigious university will open doors in the long run, so we want to take the venture as a family. The transition over seas will have a pretty significant hit in our monthly income, but being frugal isn’t the biggest concern, it is the rather daunting costs of moving over seas. That’s why we setup a GoFundMe where you can make a tax-deductible donation to the process.

For over 11 years Homebrewed Christianity has been bringing you online theological resources. With 70k regular listeners and having crossed over 3 million downloads already this year, I know many of you enjoy it almost as much as I do. Your support not only makes the podcast possible, but has enabled me to continue to pursue my dream.

I am asking for those who are able to help out. Here’s two ways you can.

Donate to the GoFundMe to help us cover the moving costs. This donation is tax-deductible because of our partnership with ReWilder.

Join the Homebrewed Community and support the podcast with a monthly donation. You will also get access to a bunch of goodies including a year-long introduction to contemporary theology.

If you’re strapped for funds, don’t worry about it. Please, keep enjoying the podcast! But if you’re able to help out, either one-time via GoFundMe or recurring via the Homebrewed Community, it would mean alot to me.

Either way, I look forward to bringing you all-new zestiness from across the pond.

Thanks for considering!

Tripp

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Elgin goes to Mars

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:29:54 -0000

Elgin, my oldest son, just turned 11 and he has managed to talk himself into a podcast appearance. Personally I had a blast. It may be a completely new parenting tactic – get your 11 year old Son to record a podcast and they will talk to you about something other than Fortnite for 30 minutes!!

Elgin is a pretty big fan of the National Geographic show MARS and we are currently rocking the second season. It is about an international team of scientists who go on a mission to colonize the red planet. The cool thing about the show is they go back and forth with a not-too-far-ahead future narrative of the first Mars team and cut-ins with info from contemporary scientists or current research connected to the mission. This leads to Elgin asking all sorts of fun questions…some of which we attempt to discuss in the episode.

If you haven’t seen Mars and have a science or Sci-Fi nerd in the house check it out. For those that are going to watch with a very inquisitive offspring, just DVR it so you can pause and discuss as you go through the episode.

For more Mars excitement you can also check out the book the show is based on, How We’ll Live on Mars. It’s extremely readable and quite fun. There is a certain individual in our house who may or may not find the book in a stocking this Christmas.

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Do Progressive Christians Want to Make Disciples?

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:23:38 -0000

Do Progressive Christians Want to Make Disciples?

We got a call from Deacon Luke Allison and he has a topic that makes the progressive Christian wiggle – discipleship. Jesus called them and told us to do it, but has that time passed? What does disciple-making look like in our pluralistic world? How does the relationship of Jesus to his disciples in the New Testament impact our contemporary vision? Can the call to make disciples ultimately be divorced from the imperial legacy of the church?

I am sure you are thinking of more questions this one topic brings up. Well once I heard the question I knew we needed to talk about it. Here’s my contribution to the conversation. Let me know what you think and any other questions that pop up.

You can be cool like Luke and submit your question via the SpeakPipe RIGHT HERE.

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Close Encounters of the Theological Kind with Scott Paeth

Thu, 26 Jul 2018 16:36:07 -0000

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you.

Today Tripp is joined by Scott Paeth, professor and ethicist at DePaul University, to help answer your questions, including:

how would your theological picture of the world change if there was a verified encounter with a sentient extraterrestrial?

Scott and Tripp discuss what that would mean for Christian theology, if God created life on other planets, how we should relate to that other life, and how this would change cosmological arguments.

Plus, could it change our treatment of non-human minds on this planet? what obligations do we have to other sentient creatures?

There are lots of ways you can submit a question for Tripp to answer: go to trippfuller.com and click the “send voicemail” button on the right (near the scroll bar); you can also leave us a 5-star review on iTunes with your question as the review; you can tweet @trippfuller; or you can send an email with your question to mediaguru@homebrewedchristianity.com

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The Affinities Between Marxism and Christianity with Scott Paeth

Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:16:14 -0000

Today Tripp is joined by Scott Paeth, professor and ethicist at DePaul University, to help answer your questions, including:

what is gained by engaging with Karl Marx if you’re a Christian?

Scott and Tripp discuss the affinities between Marxism and Christianity, how capitalism is contrary to Christian values, how Marxism and Christianity draw upon each other, how money and possessions determine a lot about our relationships, and the Marxist critique of religion.

Plus, how our unquestioned ideology sustains our economic systems, and what Marx really has to say about religion.

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Are We in the Midst of a Cold Civil War? with Scott Paeth

Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:30:02 -0000

Today Tripp is joined by Scott Paeth, professor and ethicist at DePaul University, to help answer your questions, including:

how would you make the best possible case, as a Christian, for supporting Donald Trump?

Scott explains under what circumstances it is preferable to support Trump, discusses how an ethicist look at questions about truth, goodness, justice in our divided religious and political landscape, and why political norms are important. Tripp shares some of the reasons some people on the extreme Left gave for voting for Trump, and Scott explains why he thinks they are problematic.

Plus, Scott and Tripp make a case for continued investment and engagement in the democratic process.

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The 3 Best (and Worst) Theological Ideas with Brian McLaren

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:13:40 -0000

Today, Tripp is joined by Brian McLaren to help answer your questions, including:

what are the 3 best and worst theological ideas you’re thinking about today?

Brian shares his three (total depravity/original sin; literal/inerrant interpretations of scripture; that humans are separate from creation) and asks Tripp an important question. Plus, Tripp rants about the importance of a constructive, articulate description of the Christian faith, and how the church has internalized Kant.

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Christian Parenting without Baggage? with Brian McLaren

Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:28:00 -0000

Today, Tripp is joined by Brian McLaren to help answer your questions, including:

How do you share your faith with your children with less baggage then you had? What is the role of the community and extended family in this process?

Brian and Tripp talk about figuring out a curriculum of love, the opportunities and challenges that comes with being a parent who wants to share their faith, and the problematic assumptions about Christian formation. Brain also mentions his recent book, The Great Spiritual Migration.

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What’s the Point of Christianity? w/ Brian McLaren

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 08:39:23 -0000

Today, Tripp is joined by Brian McLaren to help answer your questions, including:

In the past 3 years I’ve become more committed as a christian and more progressive politically. I just don’t understand the outrage cultural online among progressive Christians where we eat our own. How can we do better?

and

What is the point of Christianity (assuming you don’t really believe people go to hell)?

Brian and Tripp discuss politics, social science, what issues are ok to be pushy on, the disease of the internet and how the desire for retweets can be destructive, salvation and how we’ve twisted it’s meaning, rediscovering the Jewish meaning of salvation, the challenge for people to move past their inherited relationship to Christianity, and the truth at the heart of the gospel.

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Evil: Part 2

Fri, 18 May 2018 12:25:49 -0000

In this episode, Tripp picks up where he left off last time and addresses some more questions surrounding evil:

doesn’t the problem of evil change throughout scripture?
aren’t there different answers to it?
how does the move towards monotheism in Judaism (not to mention Christian monotheism) change our understanding of evil?

Tripp explains the problem of evil for monotheism compared to polytheism, how the question for a henotheistic concept of God is not can you do anything about evil, but will you, and how a monotheistic concept of God widens the scope of the problem of evil to a cosmic scale.

Plus, what do you do with all the different answers the Bible gives? and what are we saying ‘no’ to when we affirm platitudes like, ‘God is in control’?

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Evil: Part 1

Fri, 11 May 2018 16:21:40 -0000

We got lot of questions about evil, suffering, and divine power. There is the classic philosophical question about evil, and then there is the theological question about evil. How do you even begin to answer these questions? do you deny the goodness of God? do you deny the reality of evil? or do we reject God’s divine omnipotence?

But before he even gets to those questions, Tripp address the two trajectories in the questions asked:

What is scripture’s actual answer to question of evil and suffering?
Does doing theodicy even make sense when you look at the history of slavery and racism in America?

Sometimes we answer theological questions in a way that abstracts our lived experience. So Tripp, in this Q&A, wants to affirm the experiences that generate these questions, while also trying to situate them in the broader context of the theological and philosophical questions about evil.

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Should We Open the Canon, or Keep It Closed?

Fri, 04 May 2018 16:34:13 -0000

Today’s question: is the canon open or closed? how would communities decide what new texts should be considered to be part of an ongoing living bible or canon?

In this episode, Tripp explains what the the canon is, and gives 3 reasons to open the canon, and 3 reasons to keep it closed. Plus, Tripp shares what he would add to the canon.

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Did Early Christians Think The Bible Was Inerrant?

Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:12:57 -0000

Today’s question: did the early Christians believe the Bible was inerrant?

The short answer is no. But it’s a little more complicated than that.

Tripp explains what is even meant by inerrancy, how inerrancy is a product of the Enlightenment, the fights the early church had about the authority of scripture, the challenges the early church faced in interpreting scripture, and the tension between the limited Hebrew response and the Gnostic tendency to decontextualize Jesus. Plus, three rules for interpreting scripture from some early church fathers.

If you’re interested in learning more, check out this book.

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Be Glad the Gospels Don’t Line Up

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:42:54 -0000

This week’s question: What do I do with 4 different, contradictory, gospel stories?

In answering, Tripp wants to convince you that you should be glad the gospels don’t line up. He shares about that time he discovered his bible was broken, the gifts that allowing the gospels to be different brings, the heresy of Tatian and where it creeps up today, and why it is significant that we have canonized four different gospels.

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Faith, Reason, and Reading the Bible

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:29:55 -0000

In this episode Tripp tries to tackle two questions:

How did the early church see the relationship between religion/faith and reason/science?
How has contemporary science impacted the way Christians read scripture?

Learn about Augustine’s 4 rules for negotiating faith and reason, the multiple layers of meaning in scripture, and how this battle between faith and reason has been internalized.

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Thanksgiving, Nostalgia, and Togetherness with Robyn Henderson-Espinoza #GoActivistTheology

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:24:53 -0000

Back by popular demand, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza sits down to talk with Tripp about Thanksgiving, the theology of nostalgia, and the politics of wholeness. They discuss:

the postwar origins of Thanksgiving
how do we reconcile the Christian rhetoric of gratitude and the founding of our country on the genocide of indigenous peoples
appropriate (and inappropriate) holiday costumes for children
what did the first thanksgiving look like? do we really know that story?
the bad theology of nostalgia and the bad politics of wholeness
how to develop practices of togetherness

Plus, Robyn and Tripp talk about a cool new #goactivisttheology project you won’t want to miss.

If you are also in North Carolina, you better get ready for two back-to-back live podcasts in December. On December 7th Tripp will be at Wake Forest University School of Divinity talking with Bill Leonard (author of the Homebrewed Guide to Church History) and on December 8th he will be in Cary, NC.

If you really want to make your advent great, join Tripp, Diana Butler Bass, and the folks from Crackers and Grape Juice in Washington DC on December 16th. You can get tickets and learn more here.

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Social Justice, Conflict, and Process Ecclesiology with Timothy Murphy

Thu, 23 Nov 2017 10:30:10 -0000

Theologian and activist Timothy Murphy is on the podcast to talk about his new book, Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel. It’s part of the (Process) Theology Nerd Book Giveaway sponsored by Process Century Press and the Center for Process Studies

In this episode you’ll hear about Timothy’s interest not just in process, but in social justice and politics, the central questions driving this book, why we should not avoid conflict in the church, the challenges of addressing social justice issues with mainline Protestants, and about his work with Progressive Christians Uniting and how it influenced the direction of his work.

Plus,

how the cosmology he develops in the book ends up connected to ecclesiology
what is a planetary gospel?
practicing differentiated solidarity and the spiritual practice of kenosis
how not to be an ally
some of the practices faith communities can engage in that address issues of privilege

No (process) theology nerd will want to miss out on this huge opportunity to build a process theology and philosophy library. The Center for Process Studies and Process Century Press are giving away 5, that’s right, 5 sets of 20 zesty books. A lucky grand prize winner will get an additional 15 books. Enter to win now!

Are you ready to end the war on Advent? Are you ready to Make Advent Great Again? Make Advent Great Again (#MAGA) is a pop-up community for holiday resistance and renewal. The cost? Contribute whatever you can to help make this possible for everyone. The suggested donation is $20, but no one is turned down for lack of funds. Each Monday-Friday you will get an email with a 5 minute Advent reflection; you will get access to a private Facebook group where you can discuss, share, and reflect; there will also be a LIVE session every Monday. Visit makeadventgreatagain.com to sign up and see who will be contributing.

Thanks to our new Homebrewed Community members! You can join the Homebrewed Community, get a sweet ecclesiastical title, get access to all sorts of zesty bonus material, and help support the podcast. Just go to homebrewedcommunity.com and join today!

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Freedom, Liberty, and Other Patriotic Stuff

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:40:09 -0000

Get ready for all the freedom, liberty, and patriotic stuff you can handle! Jason Micheli and Teer Hardy from the Crackers & Grape Juice Podcast.

In this episode the Hauerwasian Mafia sent one of its Drill Sergeants, Jason, to talk about the predicament of faith, freedom, and the conflicting calls to allegiance that color the American landscape.

We hope your Independence Day grilling time enjoys this conversation. Word up.

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The Secret Chart to the END OF TIME (kind of) with Jeffrey Pugh and Daniel Kirk

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:35:59 -0000

Welcome to a special episode of the Theology Nerd podcast. Today, the Good Doctor Daniel Kirk is talking to Jeffrey Pugh about his book, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times: Theology After You’ve Been Left Behind.

Hear about Jeffrey’s personal history with apocalyptic movements, the secret to the end of the world, the system of thought behind the dispensationalist beliefs, inerrancy and hermeneutics, the difference between apocalypticism and eschatology, the difference between literal and non-literally readings and how we know when to use which.

Plus, Daniel and Jeff talk about:

what can apocalyptic literature teach us today?
what role does Israel play in all of this?
how do we tell life-giving narratives, rather than death-dealing ones?

#TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke…

We will be starting a new High Gravity class for the Homebrewed Community Members: The Theology Nerd’s Guide to Reading the Bible. Current members will have access to the class, and non-members will be able to purchase the class soon. But the best way to get the class is to become a monthly Homebrewed Community Member. You will get access to all of the past High Gravity courses, #EPICReads, exclusive bonus content, and a network of other theology nerds to help you brew your own faith. Just visit homebrewedcommunity.com to sign up.

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Smells Like Teenage Phenomenology with J. Aaron Simmons LIVE from #PYM17

Fri, 09 Jun 2017 07:00:38 -0000

We are live from North Carolina today!

J. Aaron Simmons, Lauren Winner, and Ryan Newsome were all on stage for the live podcast from the Progressive Youth Ministry conference at Montreat in North Carolina. PYM just announced details for next year’s conference, so make sure to check progressiveyouthministry.org for more.

This episode includes the full interview with Aaron Simmons from this past March. If you want the full live podcast experience you’ll have to come in person next year! Big thanks to the Center for Process Studies for sponsoring (and providing the beer).

Tripp and co-host Tony Jones talked with Aaron about what exactly phenomenology is, what it’s like being a phenomenological philosopher and Pentecostal, why phenomenology is different than the philosophical framework that came before it, Heidegger on subjectivity and self-hood, plus, Aaron gives a live phenomenological reduction demonstration.

Throughout, Tripp explains how to teach phenomenology to teenagers in confirmation classes and why every youth minister should be a phenomenologist.

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Questions for Trinity (Sunday) #LectioCast

Tue, 06 Jun 2017 01:09:05 -0000

this is NOT the good Dr. Kirk

The good Doctor Daniel Kirk is on a road trip across the country with Clan Kirk, but no need to fear your Lectiocast is still here! It is an honor to fill in for Daniel and talk some lectionary goodness. We will see how long it takes before Daniel quits his trip and gets me off the show, but for now I am excited.

During the podcast I discuss the four lectionary texts for the week and the questions I imagine inspiring my sermonizing…if I was still working in a pulpit.

For each of the texts I pulled out some questions that could drive a sermon. Here’s a few of them.

Matthew 28:16-20 * Where is Galilee today? * Does our worship hold space for doubt? * What kind of disciples are we making? * Where is God with us now? * What is the church’s relationship to the kin-dom? Psalm 8 * How does the world become creation? * What are the habits and boundaries that structure space for creativity? * God-spotting. * Eco-stewardship Genesis 1:1-2:4a * Go Keller * Don’t conquer chaos, it’s where the spirit-filled living happens.

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Interruptions of Lament and of New Originary Stirrings with Erin Schendzielos

Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:51:44 -0000

“Lament is the antidote of denial.” – Walter Brueggemann

This episode Tripp and Nathan talk to Erin Schendzielos about new project her and the Shelter50 Publishing Collective are working on with Walter Brueggemann – Antidote: Interruptions of Lament and of New Originary Stirrings. This project was inspired by the Adult VBS Walter did at the Hatchery last summer (you can enter to win the audio from all 5 sessions plus over $200 worth of Brueggemann books here) and by his book Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks. The ides is to honor him and all of his amazing work by having theologians, poets, musicians, artists, academics, lay people, etc., respond to a chapter either through prose, poem, song, art, etc., and compile the responses in a book. Erin and Shelter50 did a similar project with an essay by John Caputo called It Spooks: Living in Response to an Unheard Call.

This is part of the “on the porch” series: an extended and vulnerable dialogue among friends sharing zesty craft beverages. It is one way of living out the very theory Brueggemann talked about that inspired Erin in the first place – out loud grief work done together as the antidote to the denial of reality. You’ll get to hear a little bit more about Erin, her story, what inspired her to pursue theology and begin a project like Shelter50.

Shelter50 is the name of a former space where innovation, imagination, & interrogation merged. It was a physical place of hospitality which invited people to explore the ways we manifest in the world and to investigate the ways our beliefs function in our lives. It was a space which hosted a wide variety of experiences aimed at bringing people together in meaningful & transformative ways. Shelter50 Publishing Collective (PC) was birthed out of (and named from) this former space. Shelter50 PC then, carries forward this (currently more conceptual) space which seeks to be colonized by none, and simultaneously is open to diverse expressions and imaginative undertakings from within and without Christianity.

Make sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win 10 Walter Brueggemann Books, as well as all the audio from the five sessions he lead for Adult VBS at the Hatchery last summer. The more you share, the more entries you get, the better your chances of winning! One lucky winner will get all 10 books and the audio, two runners-up will get the audio from Adult VBS. Enter now!

Based in Redondo Beach, California, Hatchery LA is a church planting center that incubates innovative, sustainable models of church. Learn more about how you can be a part of the Hatchery by clicking here.

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Deep Religious Pluralism with Andrew Schwartz

Fri, 26 May 2017 07:00:38 -0000

Are we all taking different paths up the same mountain? or are their many mountains? is there one ultimate reality or many?

Andrew Schwartz, director of the Center for Process Studies – a research center of Claremont School of Theology, in affiliation with Claremont Graduate University. CPS seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach found in process thought. Andrew will be teaching one of the courses at the Process Summer Institute this June on deep religious pluralism. The Process Theology Summer Institute is a 4-day (June 5-8, 2017) intensive course designed to introduce basic issues in the theory and application of process theology. You can participate in person or online!

Tripp and Andrew talk about growing up Nazarene and discovering process thought, the nature of religious commitment for the individual, going through crises of faith, the shape of an active and engaged faith, religious pluralism within and without Christianity, and, of course, process philosophy and theology.

If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content – like the upcoming #EPICReads session. If you become a member this month you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith.

Are you a youth minister? Make sure to sign up for the FREE Open and Relational Youth Ministry video course. You also text OPENYOUTH to 44222 to get all of the content to help you overcome the biggest challenges you face as a youth minister.

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Live at the Hive in Cincinnati

Thu, 18 May 2017 17:49:12 -0000

The podcast is coming to you live from the Hive in Cincinnati with our friends at the Common Pilgrim. Tripp talks to friend of the podcast (and author of the forthcoming Homebrewed Guide to Salvation) Adam Clark, and Alice Connor about her new book Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation. Plus, Tripp talks to Troy about the Hive, a new project in and around the Cincinnati area that cultivates mindfulness which manifests as creativity and intentional social engagement. They do this through retreats, events, classes, and one-on-one direction.

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Believing Skepticast: Live in Santa Barbara

Thu, 04 May 2017 17:37:38 -0000

Tripp was in Santa Barbara where the Way Collective sponsored the Believing Skepticast at the phenomenal Third Window Brewing Co. Tripp and Tim talk about what is happening with religion in the 21st century and navigating the tricky waters of faith and doubt.

Whereas in the past, atheists and believers from separate camps would debate in the public sphere, today we often see hints of both schools of thought within the same person! Plus, as religion (especially Christianity) is changing all over the place, we need more conversations like this that help us stay tuned-in and promote more compassion!

Sometimes it’s easiest to give in to the division we see all over the place, but conversations about faith and doubt can help us see a different way to be together: one of unity in a fragmented world! That’s why a new movement is beginning in Santa Barbara to develop a community for those wanting to have fresh and transformative conversations about deep living for the common good. This movement is called the Way Collective, and emphasizes practices and values that create more adventure, wholeness, beauty, and sustainability for all.

The Way Collective will be hosting friend of the podcast Peter Rollins for a night of pints and parables on Friday, May 26th. If you’re in the Santa Barbara area and want to be confronted with probing parables revealing what lies beneath the surface, you won’t want to miss this! In this intimate event, Pete will be offering some of his favorite parables along with some reflections and conversation. You can get tickets here.

Want to win a FREE complete set of the new Bibliotheca bible? One lucky HBC community member and one other random winner will win a complete set from our friends over at Bibliotheca. Click here to enter the giveaway. The more you share, the more entries you get, the better your chances of winning. Speaking of the HBC community…

If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content. If you become a member in April you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith.

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Truth, Hermeneutics, and Revelation with Jeff Pugh and Eric Hall

Thu, 20 Apr 2017 20:01:12 -0000

Jeffrey Pugh and Eric Hall have taken over the Theology Nerd podcast this week!

Jeff and Eric, authors of the Homebrewed Guide to the End Times and God (respectively), sat down early on Holy Saturday to talk about their books, how a young Assemblies of God Eric got an endowed chair at a Catholic school, and what it was like to be an original Jesus Freak with Jeff in the 60s and 70s. They also get super nerdy and talk about:

what is truth? and how do you get to the truth of God?
how do you interpret Christ’s return and make sense of it in today’s world?
what do Taoism and Meister Eckhart have in common?

For the rest of April you can get their books for $2.99 (and Tripp’s guide to Jesus) for Kindle and Nook. Or, you can go to homebrewedguides.com and order the whole 10 book series!

If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content. If you become a member in April you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith.

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Open and Relational Q&A with Thomas Jay Oord

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 05:51:58 -0000

Are you an Oordian? Are you a member of Oord Nation? Listen to Thomas Jay Oord answer your questions about open and relation theology and you just might become an Oordian.

In this episode Tripp and Tom answer a stack of questions that people sent in about open and relational theology. Topics include: divine power, dealing with doubt, the relationship between religion and science, evil and suffering, and some different reasons why people go open and relational, prayer, eschatology, and more!

So if you have some questions that you are itching to get answered, make sure to sign up for the Homebrewed email list so you can get updates about when the next Q&A will be and so you can send us those questions you need answered.

If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content. If you become a member in April you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith.

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Politics, Musical Theater, and the Woman at the Well

Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:48:41 -0000

This is a Q&A episode of the Theology Nerd podcast, where we answer questions that listeners like you send in. We talk about how not to preach the woman at the well story (John 4), the intersection of musical theater and theology, and what Peter Berger’s Sacred Canopy has to say (if anything) about the Trump administration.

The music video for Trey Pearson’s new single is out now, so check it out. You can listen to the interview with Trey here, or watch the video here.

If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content. If you become a member in April you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith.

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Why Go Niebuhr? with Scott Paeth

Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:31:39 -0000

Are you ready to get real with Niebuhr?

Scott Paeth, professor of ethics at DePaul in Chicago, is on for this edition of the Why Go? series. Today, Scott is giving us 5 reasons why we should go Niebhurian (Niebuhr is probably the most influential American theologian of the 20th century, FYI). Scott is also the author of The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians.

How, as Christians, are we to engage in society? How are we to understand human nature? How should we understand the nature of evil and sin? All of these questions and more are covered in this very timely episode.

Follow Scott on Facebook. You should also follow Homebrewed on Facebook, that way, you get notifications when we do live videos or webinars.

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Finding Freedom in the Awkward Embrace of Your Tradition with Eric Hall

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 02:30:00 -0000

To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year.

Tickets for Theology Beer Camp in Denver (August 18-19) and Oklahoma City (August 25-26) are on sale now! But you better hurry, prices go up Friday!

In this episode, Eric Hall, author of the Homebrewed Guide to God (on sale now), and Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, witnesses to a room full of (slightly tipsy) progressive Protestants on behalf of the Catholic Church.

Eric (who also wrote Paradox of Authenticity) also puts on summer camps for high school students to integrate faith and ecology into their own understanding of themselves, God, and the world. Rumor has it he’s got scholarships for podcast listeners who have students who would be interested in attending. You can email Tripp for more info about this or using Eric’s discussion videos for your small group or congregation while reading the Homebrewed Guide to God.

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Salvation in a Post-Truth Age with Adam Clark

Thu, 16 Mar 2017 03:00:01 -0000

To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year.

Tickets for Theology Beer Camp in Denver (August 18-19) and Oklahoma City (August 25-26) are on sale now! But you better hurry, prices go up Friday!

This is friend of the podcast, professor at Xavier, and author of the Homebrewed Guide to Salvation Adam Clark’s session from the first Theology Beer Camp.

Adam talks about notions of salvation in scripture, gives a survey of different atonement theories, and challenges our assumptions about what salvation is in our post-truth age.

Make sure to go to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets for Denver and Oklahoma City before Friday, and visit homebrewedguides.com to get your copy of the complete Homebrewed Christianity Guides with a discount, and get $100 in free High Gravity downloads.

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Why Go Wesleyan? with Thomas Jay Oord

Fri, 10 Mar 2017 18:05:36 -0000

Are you ready to get your heart strangely warmed?

Next up in the Why Go? series, Thomas Jay Oord joins Tripp to talk about why you should go Wesleyan. Tom gives 13 reasons, including:

God’s primary attribute is love
God is triune
God acts first in every moment to offer salvation, and humans freely respond to God’s offer
God does not predestine some to heaven and others to hell
God values and seeks to redeem all creation: humans and non-humans alike

and more!

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And don’t forget to head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets for the Theology Beer Camp Summer Tour in Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Tickets go on sale March 15th and by signing up you will get first crack at the cheapest tickets.

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Why Go Kierkegaard? with Stephen Backhouse

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:36:09 -0000

We’re all Kierkegaardians, whether we know it or not.

So why not hear 5 reasons to let Soren salt your theological grub. Stephen Backhouse, author of the new Kierkegaard biography, Kierkegaard: A Single Life, give us five reasons to embrace our Kierkegaardian inheritance.

Why go Kierkegaard? There is not school or church of Kierkegaard. He made sure that there could not be. Instead, he is the salt to your steak, the pepper to the sauce, the lemon zest to the beer. Kierkegaard will:

help you find the point
help you articulate what the !£%$ is wrong with Christianity in your country
help you articulate what the !£%$ is right with Christianity in your country
help you become a person
help you become a better person

We’ve got a very special announcement: Theology Beer Camp is going on the road.

Tripp will be joined by Peter Rollins in Denver and Oklahoma this August for a special session of Theology Beer Camp. We’re calling it Theology Summer Camp#SONFest

Tickets will go on sale beginning March 15th. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to find out more info and sign up to get notified when the tickets go live.

Ps – if you sign up, you’ll get first crack at the lowest priced tickets

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Theological Tailgating with Phil and Tripp

Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:36:22 -0000

This is an audiological taste of what happened at the first annual Theology Beer Camp.

During this special session of theological tailgating Philip Clayton and Tripp got all processy and talked about Jesus, God, creation, science – all while a cornhole tournament happened below!

If after listening to this you’ve got some questions about process theology you should let us know! We will be doing an intro to process episode and want your input. So send us a tweet, or email us your questions. Or, you could just join the Homebrewed Community (click, “Join the Community”above) and get access to the secret Facebook group and submit your questions there.

This session is meant to push process people towards Christian categories and questions, and push the Christian people in the direction of process, and to be heretical on both sides. This is meant to be really funny and serious constructive theology.

Phil and Tripp take classical Christian questions, mix them with a little process thought, and see what happens. They start with Jesus’s relationship to God, God’s relationship to creation, and the resurrection. Then they tackle the relationship of science and Christianity, the importance of the historical narrative of Israel, reverse salvation from sanctification, relational eschatology, and how the Jewish notion of Messiah is really processy.

Plus, Tripp tells you what two worldviews/theologies irritate him the most.

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Have we got some zesty news for you…it’s LIVE PODCAST time! This time, Tripp is heading up to Santa Barbara, CA where the Way Collective is sponsoring the Believing Skepticast at the phenomenal Third Window Brewing Co on March 2!

Will we talk about what is happening with religion in the 21st century?
Will we address navigating the tricky waters of faith and doubt?
Will we chat while giving a cheers to one another with a tasty craft brew in-hand?

The answer is: YES.

This is a FREE event, but you do need to register. Click here for more info.

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Why Go Barthian? with Travis McMaken

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:20:50 -0000

This episode of The Theology Nerd podcast is the Why Go Barthian? Webinar with Travis McMaken. This is another installment of our ongoing Why Go? series.

In this episode you will get 5 reasons why you should go Barthian, plus:

What does it mean to be Barthian? Barth didn’t want people to be Barthians, he wanted people to be theologians who spoke critically and carefully about Jesus.
The three phases of Barth’s career
Being a Barthian does not mean being neo-Orthodox.
Barth was not a lone ranger, but was part of a broader dialectical theology movement. It’s important to ask who these other people are, what their shared assumptions were, what were the things they rejected together, and how do each of them remain uniquely faithful to the movement as a whole.
And what exactly is dialectical theology anyway?

Make sure to hit up Travis on twitter @WTravisMcMaken and check out his website.

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Questions for the Believing Skeptic: What Time is It?

Thu, 16 Feb 2017 07:19:19 -0000

This is a special bonus episode from the Questions for the Believing Skeptic course.

We are in a period where the confidence of rationalistic accounts of religion don’t work anymore. There has been an explosion of religion expression that doesn’t fit neatly into any box. As good philosophers and theologian, this new situation requires trying to come up with words and thoughts to make sense of it.

Most people who have at least one foot in the door of a religious tradition haven’t escaped being and shaped by this cultural phenomenon. We don’t have the possibility of existing in a world that is enchanted or shaped by one religious narrative anymore. Even those who are ready to rock and roll for their religious team or tribe do so today in a way that is significantly different than before. We are now, more than ever, both a believer and a skeptic.

How do we navigate this new landscape? To help guide us through this new situation the believer and the skeptic must ask the following questions:

what time is it?
is there help for my unbelief?
what is the new normal?
who do you say that I am?

This episode is a snippet from the first lecture asking the question, “what time is it?” To become a Homebrewed Christianity Bishop or Elder, and get this plus much, much more, click on “Join the Community” on our website. By becoming an Elder you will essentially get this class for half off, and have access to every other class we do this year for free. Of course we hope you stay around.

If you want to just be a part of this class, you can head over here to sign up.

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Jesus: My Favorite Homeless, Crucified Jew Q&A at Columbia University

Tue, 14 Feb 2017 22:46:57 -0000

This is a special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast. Homebrewed Community Member Jesse Thorson, a Junior at Columbia University and Outreach Team Leader at Columbia Faith and Action, put together this special Q&A session about Tripp’s Guide to Jesus (which is available for purchase wherever books are sold).

They talk about:

Historical Jesus
Development of the doctrine of Christ
The questions driving Christological innovations over the centuries
Plus, some really practical advice for sharing our faith with those don’t share it

A big shout out to Jesse and all the folks at Columbia Faith and Action for putting this session together!

Did you know that the Homebrewed Christianity Community isÂ where over 90% of the support for the podcast comes from? Those are the people who are a part of the secret Facebook group, part of the ongoing classes we do, they get to see and hear all sorts of things first, see and hear things no one else does, and get to do really awesome stuff like what Jesse did with this episode!

You know that you too can be a part of the community and help support the podcast. Just head over to homebrewedcommunity.com to get started

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Epiphanation #ThinkingWhileDrinking

Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:01:09 -0000

This is a very special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast: Epiphanation

It’s always Epiphany when the Homebrewed Community gets together. What is Epiphanation? It is when we get together with the Homebrewed Community on Epiphany, discuss questions or topics that they have, live for 3 hours, while imbibing delicious craft beverages.

To take part in the next Epiphanation and other Homebrewed events and courses, head on over to homebrewedcommunity.com to become a member.

In this Epiphanation, we Epiphanate on:

music, the arts, and the role the church plays in those
John CobbÂ and Herman Daly’sÂ understanding of process, the environment, and economics.
the relationship between biblical studies and systematic theology

We just launched a special give away for Youth Ministers as we anticipate seeing everyone at Progressive YouthMinistry next month in Asheville, NC! Plus, if you use the codeÂ HBC you will get $50 off.

If you work with students make sure to enter so you get future info about youthÂ work. If you donâ€™t then this should be the last time you hear about it.

There will be 31 winners and a grand prize worth over $500. Enter now.

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Biblical Problems, God’s Problem, and Evil

Mon, 23 Jan 2017 18:18:47 -0000

It’s time for The Theology Nerd podcast.

We are relaunching this podcast stream (formerly TNT) with a multitude of formats, like Q&A, webinars, special HBC community events, and more! Make sure to click subscribe in wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode.

For this Q&A episode, we tackle:

the logical and ethical problems with penal substitutionary atonement
how the Kung Fu Panda (2) model of theodicy can help you win at parenting and at theology
Tripp clears up some confusion about heresy
the preferential option for the Jesse
how an open and relational theologian thinks about the bible
the really offensive part of the wrath of God

Plus, Tripp tells one of the funniest jokes that he has ever heard (from a Benedictine monk) and explains why Lord of the Rings is superior to Star Wars.

You can always click the speakpipe button to send us questions, comments, or love. Even better would be to tweet Tripp @trippfuller. If you don’t want to miss out on all the awesome perks of being a Homebrewed Community member, head over to homebrewedommunity.com and sign up now.

And don’t miss the new course with Tripp and Barry Taylor, Questions for the Believing Skeptic. Sign up and get access to:

four 90+ minute video lectures
audio and video replay of each session
conversational engagement with all the topics
all of your questions will help make a companion book for the course
invitation to a secret Facebook group to share questions, comments, and engage with others taking the course

The idea is to be able to take this material and use it in your community after you go through it.

Last but not least, you won’t want to miss your chance to go on a spiritual pilgrimage to Germany for the 500 anniversary of the Reformation. Click here for more details.

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When Morgan Freeman Finds the Chosen One(s) #StoryOfGodCast

Sat, 21 Jan 2017 06:53:28 -0000

In the first episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman this season things take a different trajectory… Morgan goes on a search for ‘The Chosen One.’ Almost every faith has a figure believed to be chosen by God and some of them are alive today. The episode centers around Morgan’s interaction with a number of different ‘chosen ones’ and the different shapes they take across the globe and religions.

Barry and I catch up in order to discuss the episode and a number of insights inspired by the show. If you haven’t watched the episode get on it!

Episode includes…

Jalue Tsegyal – reincarnated Tibetan lama in MN
Former North Korean missionary Kenneth Bae – held prisoner for 2 years for leading Christian prayer group
Historian of Islam, Sajjad Rizvi
Kamya Arora
Mandeep Kaur Samra, a Sikh historian
Sociologist Dr. Andreas Schneider
Karudee Chotithamaporn is a representative from the Bang Liao Dou Mu Gong Shrine – a center for Taoist worship
Chief Arvol Looking Horse, the chosen one of the Nakota, Lakota, and Dakota tribes – His latest battle is in South Dakota, protesting an oil pipeline being built under the Missouri river.

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5 Reasons to Go Process, theologically speaking w/ Monica Coleman

Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:23:00 -0000

We are re-launching our TNT podcast as The Theology Nerd with these 5 Extremely zesty reasons you should go process!

Listen to (or watch) Monica Coleman give you:

A theological perspective that inspires
5 theological challenges classical theology can't handle
Basic concepts of Process theology you can grasp and use
How to nerd out with Whitehead

We are putting this up on both podcast streams to remind you to subscribe to The Theology Nerd (formerly TNT) for more zesty episodes like this.

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A Special Invitation to Become an Architect of Transformation

Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:41:13 -0000

What’s up Theology Nerds!

This is a short and sweet little invitation of an episode for any listeners who want to take their life and leadership to the next level. As you probably know I am the Director of Theology and the Humanities at Hatchery LA, an experimental graduate school for launching alternative spiritual communities, and this past semester we started our first online certificate program. We are just finishing up the first trimester and opening up applications for the next in-coming class and I would absolutely love for podcast listeners to be a part of it.

In the episode I will share a bit about it, but you will also hear some testimonials from two different Homebrewed Deacons who are part of our first cohort.

For more info and a free three video mini-course go sign-up here. Application info can be found here.

If you have questions feel free to email me at tripp@mywebsite

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Election Hangover Podcast with Tripp and Christian

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 21:49:43 -0000

This is a post-election podcast. It is very fresh. Christian and I talk about our feelings, thoughts, anger, and hopes after the election. We discuss it in three parts: as a Citizen, as a Husband-Parent, and as a Christian. Â At the conclusion we decided to have a future (more reflective) episode and invited listeners of both podcasts to join it via the SpeakPipe. You can do that hereÂ and add your voice to a future episode.Â

We also mention an upcoming event in LA the day before Theology BeerÂ CampÂ on January 18th called Third Rail Theology: Race, Class, & White Privilege in the Church. If you are a SoCal local you are invited, along with everyone coming to the Homebrewed event.

If for some reason you don’t subscribe to both the CultureCast and HBC… think about it!

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Morgan Freeman is HERE + we talk about Miracles #StoryOfGod

Mon, 09 May 2016 16:28:19 -0000

On this special edition of the Story of God-cast you will hear from the one and only Morgan Freeman! It is kind of like talking to the voice of God about God.

He joined fellow producer of The Story of God on the National Geographic Channel, Lori McCreary, for a conversation with Tripp about the series.

Afterwards Barry and Tripp dig into the sixth and final episode of the series on Miracles. Over the course of the discussion miracles are used to unpack divine action, chance, and the power of the mind. We tackle the rather amazing segment of the show on the passover, the Vatican’s investigation into the miraculous, gambling in Ancient Rome, the early harmony of science and religion in Islam, Barry’s time as a feng shui rider, the connection of prayer to healing, Tripp’s problem with David Hume, and most importantly [hint sarcastically] how “life is like a journey filled with pot holes.”

If you love us make sure to go to iTunes & subscribe/rate the show. It is also on Stitcher (Tripp’s favorite podcast app), and you can go old school and grab the feed directly here.

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Demons, Dualism, Evil, and Zoro in the OC #StoryOfGod

Mon, 02 May 2016 15:52:21 -0000

The problem of evil has occupied humanity ever since it realized it was born to suffer, kill, and die. Every religious tradition has to deal with this reality and today we are gonna discuss it. In this episode we talk about the fifth episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – Evil.

In this week’s podcast Barry, Tripp, and Princess Alice discuss eternal conscious torment, original sin, the evolution of religion, theodicy, elf on a shelf, the origins of evil, tattoos, and the possibility of moral capitalism after the death of god.

Plus Barry and Princess Alice became friends and she went with him on a trip to Ireland. Upon return we will hear just how much fun they had.

If you love us make sure to go to iTunes & subscribe/rate the show. It is also on Stitcher (Tripp’s favorite podcast app), and you can go old school and grab the feed directly here.

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The Creation of the Cosmos, God, Rock and Roll, and Morgan Freeman’s Voice #StoryOfGod

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 04:22:54 -0000

Religion, science, faith, God, history, anthropology, prayer, and a few other topics all solicit questions. At least a few of them get tentative answers this week. In this episode we talk about the fourth episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – Creation.

In this week’s podcast Barry and Tripp discuss bones, ancestor veneration, SoCal pseudo-religion, Adam’s hidden bone under Golgotha, the Vatican’s poor science PR, Islam’s preservation of the West’s best thought, the sneaky snake in the garden, Mayan beheadings, corn deities, large cosmic rivers of creation and extremely generic ‘come together’ conclusions to religious pluralism.

Plus Barry mentions a bunch of ACDC tunes. Tripp also decides not to stab his face after hearing the question everyone with philosophy graduate degrees student loans hates – “If God made the universe, who made God?”

If you love us make sure to go to iTunes & subscribe/rate the show. It is also on Stitcher (Tripp’s favorite podcast app), and you can go old school and grab the feed directly here.

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Who Does Morgan Freeman Say God Is? #StoryOfGod

Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:33:45 -0000

Who is God? That’s a question that’s easy to ask, hard to interpret and never quite answered. In this episode we talk about the third episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – about God.

In the episode we will discuss the blues, the diversity and universality of God-talk, the emergence of polytheism and monotheism, Stonehenge and This is Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge, the role of culture in religious experience, divine manifestation in the brain, and the Osteen effect on America religion.

Barry mentions two books you will want to check out. Oprah: Gospel of an Icon by Kathryn Lofton and God: an itinerary by Regis Debray.

If you love us make sure to go to iTunes & subscribe/rate the show. It is also on Stitcher (Tripp’s favorite podcast app), and you can go old school and grab the feed directly here.

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Apocalypse and Enlightenment #StoryOfGod

Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:15:09 -0000

Tripp and Barry are taking you to the end of the world…at least as they know it. In this episode we talk about the second episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – Apocalypse.

In the episode we will discuss the politics of apocalypse, the 1 century Jewish sect known as the Essenes, the role of the Temple in contemporary Israel, the whole 666 = ? thingy, radicalization of monotheism, the Mayan prediction, cyclical views of time, enlightenment, faith in crises, and a number of other goodies.

Barry also drops some wisdom bombs about secular apocalyptic fantasies involving zombies and vampires. You will enjoy that if you enjoy using your brain.

If you love us make sure to go to iTunes & subscribe/rate the show. It is also on Stitcher (Tripp’s favorite podcast app), and you can go old school and grab the feed directly here.

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Beyond Death and Downloadable Consciousness #StoryOfGod

Mon, 04 Apr 2016 21:09:38 -0000

Here it is! The first episode of a brand new podcast.

On the Story of God-cast Tripp Fuller and Barry Taylor will be unpacking, exploring, and expanding the conversation Morgan Free starts. The National Geographic Channel produced a six part series called The Story of God with Morgan Freeman and we plan to dig deep into each one here for your listening pleasure.

The first episode is titled Beyond Death. It tackles near death experiences, technological means to immortality, and the Day of the Dead. Morgan takes a trip to Jerusalem, the Ganges, Mexico City and a science lab. That’s not all, but it gives you a taste of what you get in just one episode.

In this episode Barry and Tripp tackle a number of questions including…

Why would a series on God start with an episode about death?

What is the difference between life and death? Is it a state of existence, a thin veil, a hard transition or a problem to be fixed?

Have human beings evolved to a healthier relationship toward death or have we just rearranged the symbols and upgraded our technology?

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The Story of God-cast Teaser Session

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 17:58:34 -0000

I am very excited to announce the launch of a new podcast – the Story of God-Cast! Friend of the podcast and down right zesty scholar Barry Taylor will be joining me on this companion podcast to the brand new National Geographic Channel show,Â The Story of God with Morgan Freeman.Â It is a 6 week mini-series in which Morgan exploring the most basic questions human being have been asking.

Each episode is simultaneously a travel documentary to sacred spaces, an investigation into the history of each topic and a rich comparative examination of the world’s historic wisdom traditions. You will see a diversity of answers and expressions from all sorts of cultures and texts, from the Mayan Temple toÂ Joel Osteen in Houston to Jerusalem.

Sunday Nights on the National Geographic Channel starting April 3rd you can join the fun (or set your DVR if Zombies and Dragons are on). Then make sure to check out the new podcast episode here.

Here is a teaser podcast episode. The show will answer all sorts of questions but here are twenty you won’t find during it.

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Keller-riffic + Caputo Tells Pete the “lack” is BS

Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:17:10 -0000

Prepare yourself for some live theological goodness from the Subvert the Norm conference. In this episode you will hear Tripp and Jonnie talk with Catherine Keller about her newest book Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement among other subversively inspired topics. Then Jack Caputo arrives to settle a significant disagreement with Peter Rollins about the nature of humanity. It was simultaneously nerdy and hilarious, so do not listen until you are prepared to rub your chin while laughing.

This podcast was done under the influence of some spectacular beverages brewed by Oklahoma’s Mad Farmer Brewing master – Charlie Sheldon. He not only can brew it up with the best of them, but he is the God Father of the Homebrewed Deaconate.

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#Jesusthon the back end or Even More Jesus!

Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:29:53 -0000

Khora is not reading Dad’s book!

It is time for some Jesus fun!

I recently published the Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic or just freaking Awesome!

Here’s the thing. When you release a book you have to promote it. I did some book tour fun across the country, like the goodness you can hear fro the OKC. But I also kicked it off with a 5 hour non-stop online tour across a host of bloggers. This episode (and the next) are some of the best conversation of the 5 hours. I hope you enjoy it and tell your peeps about my book.

On this podcast you hear from Bobby Shirley, Teresa Pascale, Tony Jones, James Matichuk , and Trevor Malkinson. Click those links for the videos!

This podcast episode and the 5 hour live blab stream was developed in partnership with The Speakeasy. If you like free books and blogging about zesty texts then just holla at Mike and get on the Speakeasy email list.

Want a super sweet deal?

Well here it is. If you get all 10 volumes of the Homebrewed Christianity Guide series at the lowest price possible, then I am gonna give you a giant stack of free goods. On top of super cheap texts, free shipping and sticker fun, you will get a special email digitally delivering some enticing downloads including…

1. Radical Theology with Tripp Fuller and Peter Rollins (6 90-minute sessions) 2. Christ(ology): In the Wake of an Event with Tripp Fuller and Peter Rollins (6 more 90-minute sessions) 3. Atheism for Lent with Tripp Fuller and Peter Rollins (6 90-minute sessions) 4. Religion & Science with Tripp Fuller and Philip Clayton (6 90-minute sessions) 5. Paul: Rupture, Revelation, and Revolution (6 90-minute sessions) 6. Theology Nerd Bootcamp with Tripp Fuller and Scott Paeth (5 hours of excitement) 7. Varieties of Postmodern Theology (4 90-minute sessions) 8. Revelation of Darkness (6 Small Group Video Sessions with Rob Bell, Barry Taylor & Peter Rollins)

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The Front End of #JesusThon

Sat, 16 Jan 2016 08:34:55 -0000

Khora is not reading Dad’s book!

It is time for some Jesus fun!

I recently published the Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic or just freaking Awesome!

On this podcast you hear from the one and only Bec Cranford, Mike Morrell, John Contabile, Heather Goodman, and your favorite Lutheran Clint Shentcloth. Click those links for the videos!

Want a super sweet deal?

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Who is God?

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 06:18:22 -0000

Who is God? What is God? How… I am sure there are other ways of asking the question and even more ways to answer the question. In this episode we discuss the a host of theologians answer the question in a stack of different ways. Hopefully we are able to unpack the answers, assumptions, insights and perspectives in the episode.

During the episode we mention:

The upcoming Theology Nerd Bootcamp with Joerg Rieger February 17 in Dallas before Progressive Youth Ministry.
Joerg Rieger’s excellent textÂ Christ and Empire.
Victor Anderson’s most amazing book Beyond Ontological Blackness
Laurel Schneider’s exploration of polydoxy and multiplicity.
Donna Bowman‘s book on Barth and Whitehead & her upcoming book in the HBC series.
The Enfolding Theology Conference at the Hatchery in LA this coming March.
You should check out Nathan’s Common Cause Community project and most importantly say hi to him on twitter… he loves tree.
Elder Tony Jones’ bookÂ Did God Kill Jesus?

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Soapbox Blabbery with Peter Rollins & Tony Jones

Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:18:24 -0000

It’s a soapy blabbery with Peter Rollins and Tony Jones.

This was recorded during the Soapbox event hosted by Pete here in Redondo Beach. The attendees were hanging out, having brews and being jovial while we blabbed.

Pete explains the gospel of radical theology, Tripp discusses process and Tony giggles.

Plus you hear everyone’s worst public speaking event.

Enjoy

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Homebrewed Blabbery #NerdOut #GeekOut

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:03:03 -0000

Get Tripp’s book before 11/09/15 & get lots of free stuff

It is time to Nerd Out with your Geek Out!

This episode of TNT was hosted on Blab, a new social media platform, and I really enjoyed it. Hopefully this will become a more frequent happening and I can connect with more of the listeners on the video screen.

Make sure to check out my Blab profile and follow it so you are notified next time we go live. PS Blab hates the Safari web browser.

You can view the unedited video of the session here.

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John Caputo on the End of Religion

Tue, 25 Aug 2015 00:33:36 -0000

It is always good to hear from Jack Caputo. This is his keynote lecture from the End of Religion conference which HBC partnered with Villanova University to bring to your ear buds. After Jack drops some of his wisdom there is a panel featuring Westphal, Robbins, and Simmons. It is sure to prick your imagination.

Don’t forget that Captuo and I are both going to be at Subverting the Norm III November 5-7th in Springfield, MO. You can get a sweet sweet discount with the code HBCSTN. Then you can join us, Catherine Keller, Peter Rollins, and more.

Not only that but on November 4th there will be a one day event with Caputo and me – A Theology Nerd Bootcamp: When Philosophers Speak of God. We will be needing out throughout the day and finish it off with some beverages and relaxed covo. Sign-up HERE and reserve your spot.

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The DOC gets Scattered, Smothered & Covered LIVE

Tue, 11 Aug 2015 08:00:40 -0000

This is second sold out live show from the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Columbus Ohio. It was a spectacular evening and some it was recorded. What wasn’t recorded was taking our guest Andy on his first trip to Waffle House.

In this episode you will get…

* Adam Phillips & Andy Goebel shall be in the house talking about their church plants getting kicked out of one denomination and welcomed into another for being welcoming.

* Phil Snider, GLAD award recipient and postmodern pulpit practitioner, joins us for some sermonic convo and a Preach Off vs Tripp.

* There’s a display of Tripp’s lack of cultural awareness, Amy’s endless reservoir of fear & Christian’s excellent French accent.

* We have some heart felt tunes from Andra Moran & Trey and Carter from Populis join us for some jams.

This podcast was sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary. Josh Linton was in the house for Phillips

Our Zesty Sponsor

and got everyone their first two drinks. Can you imagine a cooler place to go to school? Make sure you check them out and holla at Josh with any questions.

** Get your Tickets for Subverting the Norm III with the discount code HBCSTN & the Theology Nerd Bootcamp with Jack Caputo**

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A Live Podcast Explosion from Columbus Ohio

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:57:17 -0000

Come see Wm. Paul Young LIVE as part of the upcoming Homebrewed CultureCast show at Marmoset Music in Portland, OR August 13th. Get your tickets HERE while they’re still available.

Prepare yourself for an audiological explosion of monumental proportions. This is the first night of HBC\CultureCast excitement at the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Columbus Ohio. In the podcast Christian, Amy and I are joined by the one and only Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, Sarah Lund, Rick Lowery and music by Populis.

This podcast was sponsored by Phillips Theological

Our Zesty Sponsor

Seminary. Josh Linton was in the house for Phillips and got everyone their first two drinks. Can you imagine a cooler place to go to school? Make sure you check them out and holla at Josh with any questions.

It was also sponsored by the Disciples Youth Ministry Network.

Sarah’s new book Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church.

Make sure you check out Populis’ new EP. It will make your booty scoot.

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Religion + Politics Pitfalls #TNT

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:52:15 -0000

Tripp & Greg talking in 2013

It is time to start preparing for the Presidential Election!

Ok that might not be super exciting news BUT that won’t spotty rest of your water cooler from talking religion and politics in the near future. Luckily our favorite ex-pastor and religious journalist Greg Horton has agreed to join the podcast for some nerdy fun.

In this episode we talk about our not-so-Christian nation, the confederate flag, USA flag in sanctuaries, wedding cakes, love of science, the most BA Pope, how to apply a religious label and other goodies. Listen and then holla back on the SpeakPipe to let us know what we should talk about next on an election year update.

Greg Horton is a freelance writer and professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy. He lives in downtown Oklahoma City in a substandard apartment that befits his status as a member of the fourth estate. He has published more than 800 articles (for real money) on topics as wide ranging as religion, wine, travel, politics, culture, music, and arts. He is most often on twitter, but fb remains open on his browser, too: twitter.com/expastor. It may be that he will finally update his blog soon, but since it doesn’t earn money, maybe not: typepad.com/theparish. Over a period of about 15 years, Horton worked for three different church staffs in three different traditions, including a brief, mind-numbing stint as a senior pastor. Somehow, he has managed to turn degrees in Bible (B.S.) and Religion (M.A.) into actual non-religious credentials.

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Deacon Meeting TNT

Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:41:37 -0000

Highlights from our first Deacon Meeting held in May 2015.

Tony, Mickey, Barry and Pete join Bo and Tripp to respond to conundrums sent in by the deacons.

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Nerd Out in the Twin Cities!

Sat, 16 May 2015 15:38:25 -0000

This episode is the highlights from the Live podcast at the Twin Cities School of Theology Launch Party. TwinSoT is new theological school being launched by Untied Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities and also new partner with the Hatchery LA.

In the podcast you will hear from Barbara Holmes, Philip Clayton, Paul Capetz, Thorsten Mortiz and Maria Francesca French.

The highlight of the trip was definitely getting to connect with the local Deacons! It was amazing to put some human beings to the tweets and speak pipe calls. Plus I got to go to Fulton brewery afterwards and buy some the HBC Community members a pint.

Make sure to sign up for the Summer School High Gravity class “Living Options In Christian Theology”.

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TNT Call-In: Orthodoxy, God and Culture

Thu, 07 May 2015 04:26:30 -0000

This TNT Call-In is packed with conversation and contentious perspectives about God, culture and evangelical ‘orthodoxy’.

5 calls provide more material than Bo and Tripp can possibly deal with in one episode. At min 55 the ‘Al’ vs. ‘The’ debate resurfaces in a brand new way to end the show.

May 16 we have called a Deacons Meeting in LA.

May 28 we have a Deacon Distillery in Sacramento after the NT Wright lecture.

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Genealogy of Liberal Theology from PYM

Wed, 22 Apr 2015 19:28:32 -0000

Scott Paeth and Douglas Ottati tackle the lightning round at Progressive Youth Ministry with a whirlwind tour of the history of liberal theology.

You can hear part 1 of the live show from that evening featuring Amy Butler and John Vest here.

Both Paeth and Ottati have been on HBC multiple times. Here are a couple of links for each of them.

Paeth’s first visit. BONUS-cast. 2014 PYMC.

Ottati’s first visit (Christology). Why write a liberal theology?

We want to thank Phillips Theological Seminary for their awesome sponsorship of this evening and their ongoing partnership. Please check out their new ministry degrees … including the Masters in Theological Studies and Doctor of Ministry!

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Chatting up the House of Cards

Tue, 21 Apr 2015 22:24:57 -0000

Who doesn’t like the House of Cards on netflix? Probably the people who are gonna skip this episode because it is a serious conversation about the most recently dropped and binged through season. There shall be discussion of politics, power, sex, violence, and the double tap of a desk.

Long time HBC Deacon from Georgia, professor of English from Emmanuel college, and co-host of the Christian Humanist podcast Nathan Gilmour joins Tripp for a spoiler filled discussion of the House of Cards. If you haven’t seen the new season don’t cry if we ruin it. If you have enjoy or message the Speakpipe about all the cool stuff we missed or got wrong.

Live in the Twin Cities? Get your free ticket for the live podcast and seminary launch May 1st at 7pm with Philip Clayton. Holla at Tripp and tell you are coming. He wants to connect w/ Deacons.

Check out the Pando Populous Event June 4-7 and join Brian McLaren and I for our track and a live podcast saturday night.

Come join the HBC Community and support this podcast.

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TNT Call In April 2015

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 17:23:54 -0000

Bo and Tripp are responding to SpeakPipe calls in this episode.

Cindy asks about the Great Debacle podcast.
Doug likes the Flipped episode with HeatherLyn.
Micky invites everyone to the TransFORMed conference.
Omar wants to talk about inclusion and systemic issues from High Gravity.
Brekke calls in about forgiveness.
Nathanael has questions about Process. We are creating a page of links and resources about Process stuff.

Sign up for the Summer School High Gravity class on Living Options in Christian Theology We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary’s DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on.

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Tony Jones & Peter Rollins on #TheGreatDebacle

Sat, 11 Apr 2015 05:56:11 -0000

Buckle your theological safety belts for it is time for a debacle. It is neither a conversation nor a debate but a debacle… a Great Debacle! Over 1300 people tuned in to the stream from all over the globe to wrestle with the meaning of the cross. Now you get to enjoy this gem of a nerdy kerfuffle.

Tony Jones comes to the debacle dropping wisdom bombs from his new book Did God Kill Jesus? Peter Rollins is rocking his Gandalf hat spitting rhymes from The Divine Magician. Old Town Roastingbrought us coffee & COOP Ale Works delivered the malted excitement.

Below are links to Tony and Pete’s books. You should buy them through these links so we can see who sells more via HBC. It’s #teampete v #teamjones. You can also become a member of the Homebrewed Christianity Community, support the podcast and get extra perks as we take the podcast to a new level.

Don’t forget to sign up for the Homebrewed Summer School High Gravity class here or by becoming an Elder or Bishop.

Snoochie Boochies!

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Flipped LIVE w/ Doug Pagitt & Heatherlyn

Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:42:07 -0000

Doug Pagitt has FLIPPED his view of God and thinks that you should too!

In this episode, Doug and Heatherlyn join Tripp and Bo at the Loft LA for conversation and presentation about turning our notion of God on its head.

Check out Heatherlyn’s FaceBook page and Website for more of her music. Around the 40′ mark Chris Spearman chats with her about artistry and church music.

You can catch their traveling book tour in these upcoming cities:

Phoenix
Albuquerque
Colorado Springs
Denver
Boulder
Omaha
Portland
Seattle
Philadelphia
Carolina Beach
Grand Rapids

We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary’s DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on.

Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over.

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A Theopoetics Party on the TNT

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:23:59 -0000

Callid recently released his book, Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer with Cascade Books and we threw an online book party. That celebratory and streaming endeavor has been edited for your listening enjoyment. The book itself is chock full of goodness with chapters on process theopoetics (including Catherine Keller), the intersection of biblical and literary studies, Rubem Alves‘ liberation theology, and the sweet Continental philosophy of John Caputo, Richard Kearney, and Karmen MacKendrick. For more info on Callid’s book check out the blog tour.

You can also check out the downloadable package of three High Gravity classes Tripp and Peter Rollins taught together. It includes all the audio from Atheism for Lent, Radical Theology, and Christology classes totally over 27 hours of material for 50 bucks.

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Level Ground LIVE 3D: sex and spirituality

Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:08:04 -0000

The Level Ground LIVE show at Jones Coffee in Pasadena, CA was a blast. What it lacked in theology it made up for in throw down.

Enjoy the highlights of our conversation with Samantha Curley and Barry Taylor about film, faith and sexuality.

Monkish Beer was a generous sponsor! We want to wish Brian White a speedy recovery.

Enjoy the closing song – or as someone said “Open all the kegs and let Tripp out into the world!”

March has Tripp at 2 live shows: one in Chicago and one in Philadelphia… make sure to check those out if you live nearby.

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HBC21 Live Event

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 06:34:11 -0000

The Culture-Cast and TNT team up for a rowdy LIVE 3D event at C21 in Phoenix, AZ

We want to thank everyone who came out and made this evening so memorable.

Philips Theological Seminary was our sponsor this evening – and rocked the swag!

The episode starts on a negative note but has a trajectory toward awesomeness … hope you enjoy the brew!

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TNT: Hume on Miracles

Wed, 21 Jan 2015 17:00:55 -0000

2015 starts with a deep discussion of Hume and the much contested definition of miracles.

This is partially in response to the last TNT with Shultz and Taylor and the subsequent blog by Bill Walker that naturalism is not enough.

Book suggestions from this show:

For the Bible Tells Me So

Gangnam Style

Ecstatic Naturalism

The Secret Message of Jesus

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TNT: Shults and Taylor

Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:23:01 -0000

Podcast favorite LeRon Shults sits down with Barry Taylor and Tripp in the HBC HQ to chat.

LeRon has made the infamous migration from Emergent to agnostic. His new books can be found here.

Get his new book Theology After the Birth of God on discount until Feb. Then Feb. 1 the paperback version of Iconoclastic Theology comes out in paperback!

You can hear his first visit to the podcast here where we discuss Christology. Then his second HBC podcast here on the Church.

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TNT: Jay Baker and Peter Rollins

Tue, 23 Dec 2014 17:20:13 -0000

Tripp sits down with Jay Baker and Peter Rollins for a nice conversation.

It starts off with some levity before getting into more serious matters.

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Theology for the People: Publishing, Emergent and God

Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:25:49 -0000

Tripp sits down with Tony Jones to chat about the new series with Fortress Press: ‘Theology for the People”.

They chat about everything from the publishing industry to the emergent church – from theological education to the death of God.

If you have not heard part 1 of the AAR live event featuring Catherine Keller and John Cobb, make sure to subscribe to the HBC stream on iTunes or Stitcher.

Enjoy listening to two friends chat about some current and future issue that have grabbed their attention.

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Exodus: Spoiler Alert

Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:26:02 -0000

J. Ryan Parker sits down with Bo to talk about the movie Exodus: Gods and Men. Bo had blogged about the footage that he had seen and Ryan came over to chat about it.

You can read Parker’s article in Relevant Magazine about Ridley Scott’s portrayal of God in the movie.

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Eat More Turkey: here is some sermon prep

Thu, 27 Nov 2014 00:34:04 -0000

It’s time for Advent and we have prepared a weekly exploration of the Biblical texts offered in the lectionary.

Due to Thanksgiving, we pre-recorded this episode and wanted to offer it for some fun and conversation. If you are interested in the next 4 please sign up for the class and plan to join us each Thursday night in Advent.

You can sign up here if you are interested.

in the final segment we mention Critical Theory and the Emergent Village Conversation from 2012.

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Transgressing Emergence: AAR and the Church

Thu, 20 Nov 2014 22:18:54 -0000

Last year in Baltimore the Open and Relational Theologies session took a look at the Emerging Church.

This session involves three conversations, with three participants in each. These conversations pertain to papers written by participants, but there will be no formal reading of the papers. The conversations explore issues in the emergent church as they relate to open and relational theologies.

Presiding:

Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University Presenting:

Jeremy Fackenthal, Vincennes University Process Theopoetics and the Emergent Church: Inviting Collaboration and Relationality [pdf] Callid Keefe-Perry, Boston University Theological Epistemology in The Emergent Church: A Form of Paul Ricoeur’s Relational Attestation Responding: Diana Butler Bass

Presenting:

Sara Rosenau, Drew University Becoming Emergent: Theorizing A Practicing Church Timothy Murphy, Claremont Lincoln University The Emergent Church in its Planetary Context [PDF] Responding: Bo Sanders, Claremont School of Theology

Benjamin Cowan, Claremont Graduate University John R. Franke, First Presbyterian Church The Pluralist Reformation: Open Theology and the Practice of Emergent Christianity Responding: Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology

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TNT: Church Planting, Empty Tomb and Biblical Scholarship

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 18:59:53 -0000

The Elder of Hops joins Bo and Tripp to chat about the empty tomb, Biblical scholarship and church planting.

The book that Bo references is The Shaping Of Things To Come.

Heads UP: Advent is coming so Tripp & Bo are inviting you to a High Gravity Advent. Register of the course and join the conversation! [Link]

Every Thursday evening (starting Nov. 28) we will talk about the Biblical passages for that week and delve into a theologian that helps us illuminate the subject in this dark time of waiting.

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PostChristian Piatt Fun!

Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:40:49 -0000

Christian Piatt of the Homebrewed CultureCast was recently in SoCal to hang with Tripp Fuller and talk about his new book PostChristian: What’s left? Can we fix? Do we care?

They were joined by Bart Campolo, Peter Rollins and Benjamin Cory to talk about the implications of moving on. Imagine this as an a living room conversation in an auditorium.

It was a ruckus affair but we wanted you to hear the first part of the evening where they all shared how they come to the conversation.

We have live events coming up in November at AAR in San Diego on Friday night – plan to join us with Catherine Keller, John Cobb, and Jack Caputo there!

We will also be at Christianity21 this year in Phoenix (January 22-24) and at this year’s PMYC !

This episode is going out as a cross-pollination experiment on both the CultureCast and TNT streams.

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TransFORM TNT

Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:30:34 -0000

March 2014 in San Diego TransFORM provided Homebrewed with three firsts:

The debut of a new gameshow “En Fuego!“
Joerg Rieger says nice things about capitalism
Tripp lost a preach-off (to Peter Matthews pictured right)

We had a blast catching up with old friends and meeting tons of new folks. Rebekah Berndnt and Micky Jones were great contestants for En Fuego! and Joerg Rieger was a good sport for Bo’s pro-capitalist chiding.

You will hear plugs for George Fox Seminary and Chalice Press – both sponsors at the time.

Check out Joerg Rieger’s books here and make sure to come to our upcoming live events at AAR in November, at Christianity 21 in Phoenix (January), and at Progressive Youth Ministry in Chicago (March).

Peter Matthews and Anthony Smith were there to tell you to tune into Soul Emergence Radio. Make sure to read Micky’s blogs over at Emergent Village.

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TNT: Homebrewed Never Prays Again

Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:21:17 -0000

Two Friars and a Fool come by to explain why they think you should stop praying. It’s an interesting conversation about their concept of prayer and action.

We want to thank Chalice Press for sponsoring the show. Check out the book on Amazon (Kindle is $7)

Make sure to check out Phillips Theological Seminary ahead of our AAR event!

We have a new ‘Support the Pod’ page

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TNT: authority, language, Jesus and ideology

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 17:49:20 -0000

We sit down with Pete Rollins and Phil Harrison in the backyard to chat about everything from art and justice to Jesus and religious authority.

Phil was in town to promote his new movie The Good Man. Make sure to check it out and look for our upcoming interview with him!

See the trailer here [link]

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TNT: part 2 collected conversations

Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:47:24 -0000

Incarnation, the Biblical conquest and worship for your benefit are our topics this week.

We start with Victoria Osteen’s viral video. Joshua’s Canaanite genocide is up next. Then we flesh out the incarnation via an interesting thought experiment.

We end with a little game to see what Tripp learned during his comprehensive exams.

Outro music: Full Circle by Ben Kweller

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TNT: Conversations Collected part 1

Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:28:28 -0000

Facebook & Ferguson

Bo is back and publishing some of his conversations recorded over the past months.

Tripp and Bo intro the episode then Micky Jones (starting at 7:50) and Bo chat for a half-hour.

The second half is the Theology Nerds fielding phone calls about different types of Christianity.

The 2nd half of this episode will come out in 2 days.

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Catholic, Quaker, Evolution, Apocalypse: final TNT for ABCs

Sat, 16 Aug 2014 01:28:52 -0000

We finish with a BANG! Callid and Bo conclude the ABC’s of Theology series with:

V is for Vatican II (ecclesiology)
W is for the Word of God (scripture)
X is for X-ray (technology)
Y is for Y2K (apocalyptic)
Z is for Zebra (evolution)

Thank you for all of your feedback and encouragement.

A special thanks goes to Jesse Turri for the artwork for this series!!!!

You can find the Unfolded narrative podcast here.

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TNT: S T U for the ABC’s of Theology

Wed, 06 Aug 2014 03:56:46 -0000

Micky and Callid join Bo to discuss Salvation, Theopoetics and Universalism for the ABC’s of Theology.

You can read the original posts here:

S is for Salvation (Micky)

T is for Theopoetics (Callid)

U is for Universalism (Bo)

You can follow the rest of series here [link]

Artwork for the series by Jesse Turri

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TNT: P Q R for the ABCs of Theology

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 16:54:35 -0000

Callid and Bo return for the next 3 letters in the ABC’s of Theology series.

Up today are:

P is for Perichoresis

Q is for the Quest for the Historical Jesus

R is for Revelation (and the book of Revelation)

You can find the original posts with the links above.

Artwork for the series by the incomparable Jesse Turri

Listen to his Unfolded Podcast here

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M N O for the ABC’s

Sat, 02 Aug 2014 14:11:53 -0000

Callid and Kristina Keefe-Perry chat about the letters M N and O for the ABC’s of Theology series.

You can read the original posts below:

M is for Metaphor (and Metaphysics)

N is for NeoPlatonism

O is for Open & Relational

We are about to hit the 7th inning stretch of the ABC’s series. Enjoy this conversation before we make the final turn toward Z.

Artwork for the series by Jesse Turri

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TNT: Facebook, Theology and the End of the World

Sun, 27 Jul 2014 06:11:23 -0000

Bo and Tripp work through some social media problems – then turn to theology before handling some eschatology.

Go ahead and leave your thoughts on the SpeakPipe (the microphone on the right hand side of the homepage) for a future TNT.

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TNT: ABCs for J K and L

Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:52:00 -0000

Callid and Bo are back for the 4th installment of the ABC’s of Theology.

5 minutes on the clock for each of the following:

J is for Justification

K is for Kenosis (and the Kingdom)

L is for Liberation (and Logos)

artwork for the series by Jesse Turri

Episode 1: ABC

Episode 2: DEF

Episode 3: GHI

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TNT: for G H I (of the ABC’s)

Tue, 22 Jul 2014 05:04:29 -0000

Callid and Bo chat about genre, hermeneutics and inerrancy on the 3rd episode of the ABC’s of theology series.

You can read the original posts here:

G is for Genre

H is for Hermeneutics

I is for Inerrancy & Infallibility

Thanks to Jesse Turri for providing the artwork of the series. You can here the Unfolded podcast here.

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TNT: D E & F (the ABC’s of Theology)

Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:43:10 -0000

Callid has been at the lake all week – and thus off the inter webs. He returns to a phone call from Bo to get his thoughts on the next 3 letters in the ABC’s series.

Today we talk through D, E, and F.

You can read the initial posts here:

D is for Deconstruction

E is from Empire

F is for Fideism

You can also catch episode 1 from earlier this week (ABC)

We want to thank Jesse Turri for providing the art for each letter! You can listen to the Unfolded podcast that Jesse and Matt run.

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TNT: Missions, Matthew, Jesus being nice & Stryper

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:05:16 -0000

Tripp and Bo field phone calls from the SpeakPipe about Missions (Russia), the gospel of Matthew, Jesus being at least as nice as God and a theology of Stryper.

We love your calls and thoughts on the SpeakPipe !!!

Tell us what you want to talk about.

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TNT: A B C of Theology

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 21:41:31 -0000

Want a Quaker perspective on atonement, baptism and Christology?

Callid gives Bo a call to talk through the first three installments of the A B C’s of Theology series.

5 minutes per letter means they cover a lot of ground in little time.

You can find the original posts here: Atonement, Baptism, Christology.

ALSO – Elder of Graphical Sweetness Jesse Turri is providing icon sketches for the series!!!!!!

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TNT Call in July 2014

Sat, 05 Jul 2014 17:40:09 -0000

The Nerds return after an unplanned break. The field calls from Brekke, Tyler and Richard.

One of the calls has to do with the topic of ‘authority’. Here is a link to Bo’s blog on the topic of authority.

Check out details for the upcoming live show “Letting Sleeping Gods Die” with Kester Brewin and Peter Rollins over at the FaceBook page.

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TNT: The Resurrection, Divine Knowledge, & Other Todd-Picks

Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:01:28 -0000

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This is a very special edition of the Theology Nerd Throwdown. Not only does the BoDaddy try to provoke me (theologically speaking) toward a rowdy defense of the resurrection but we have a very special guest – Todd Littleton. Todd is the greatest Southern Baptist Minister on planet earth. He is also the technical brains behind our High Gravity online classes, pastor to the HBC Deacon of the Year, & now officially an Elder.

Hence forth all ye Homebrewed Christianity Deacons shall know Todd Littleton as Elder of the Okie.

Over the course of the episode we discuss the nature of the resurrection, the divine attributes, the function of doubt in faith, atheism as a spiritual practice, the church and its obligations to the poor, the World Vision debacle, and a number of other goodies. Here’s the blog post where Bo provoked the first segment. It was a blast to have a group of local Deacons in the room hanging out after we finished the High Gravity session on Mary Daly. If you are ever visiting LA tweet us up & maybe we will have a recording you can join in on.

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TNT: Easter, Cross, Songs & Demons

Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:23:38 -0000

Tripp and Bo talk about Easter, the cross, bridging gaps and demons.

First up is Bo’s blog on Blood and Easter – then they talk Concerns about the Cross.

They listen to an amazing song about differences and they tackle the topic of demons.

If you want to look into the background of these conversations, check out previous TNTs about

Differences
Demons (and the follow up)
The BIG TNT about Bo being ‘Crossed Out‘

We appreciate all of the feedback on the speak-pipe! Keep the comments coming.

You may also want to check out the HBC interview with Michael Hardin about Easter, Jesus, the cross and the Bible.

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Youth Ministers, the Niebuhr Revival, @pastormark & Other Goodies #PYM14

Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:57:41 -0000

Jonnie, Tony Jones & I were lucky to bring the Homebrewed Christianity heat LIVE at the Progressive Youth Ministry conference. This episode includes some of the excitement that was had. It kicks off with a tasty interview with DePaul professor of religion, theo-blogger & Moltmaniac Scott Paeth. We discuss his new book (which is awesome and easy to read) The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians, the Hauerwasian Mafia, and the future of progressive Christian ethics in America. Then Tony Jones and I had a serious battle of au contraire mon fraire… Tony Jones did not win. That was great BUT… little did we anticipate Jonnie would secretly orchestrate his victory with a statement that blew our mind.

If that wasn’t enough we had Trey Pearson of Everyday Sunday & Carter DJ-ing the show & post-pod dance party…oh yeah that happened… Our wonderful host 4th Presbyterian & John Vest were amazing & even arranged to have some delicious Revolution Brewing & Goose Island beer at the celebration.

Chalice, the TNT publishing partner, also did some awesome give-away fun at the event.

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TNT: Jesus & Bible Movies

Mon, 24 Mar 2014 05:58:25 -0000

In this throw-down Bo chats with Micky, Callid, Pete Rollins and Tripp about all of the Jesus and Bible themed movies and what they mean to our culture.

Earlier, Bo had blogged some thoughts about this whole issue. Now the gang chimes in.

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Phyllis Tickle LIVE 3D & Au Contraire Mon Frère II

Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:27:55 -0000

Phyllis Tickle was at Fuller Seminary for a talk about her new book “The Age of the Spirit”. She then came over to (a)Spire to have a pint with us. This was no ordinary pint! Tripp brewed ‘The Grain Emergence: a 500 year rummage ale’.

We do some Q & R with Phyllis – then Barry Taylor chats with her. Then we played “Au Contraire Mon Frère II” with Tripp and Tony. Round 3 will be in Chicago at the Progressive Youth Ministry Conference later this month.

This is a rough-cut edit. That means that a couple of swear words made it through the filter … and that some things removed for public conception.

We want to thank Andy and his team plus all those who helped to make this event happen and to those who came out and made this an amazing night. PS Claire also brought some amazing home brew. That was tasty.

We also want to wish Phyllis a Happy 80th Birthday!!

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TNT: Tripp’s Timed Process Responses, Drugs & God as ‘He’

Thu, 06 Mar 2014 05:09:15 -0000

Ahmed (@woodylovesJesus) & Tim ‘the Elder of Hops‘ (@timothytalks) visit the throw-down!

This TNT was recorded after the Hobbit LIVE video-cast with Gregory Walter. Suffice to say, it was a rowdy affair.

We start with a 3 minute challenge for Tripp to answer each of Process Theology’s big concerns. The 3 of us then judge him after each round.

The 2nd question relates to drugs and tragedy.

The 3rd question is about the gender of God.

You might want to skip to the 8th min when the action really starts. In minute 38 we change things up.

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Caputo Responds AAR part 2

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 04:51:52 -0000

In part 2 we hear from friend of the podcast Jeremy Fackenthal and then get Caputo’s response to all the papers – including those from part 1.

If Jeremy Fackenthal sounds familiar, you may have heard him from the popular breakout session at EVTC 2012 session “Marx & Whitehead” or his previous AAR session on Occupy The Church.

We look forward to your feedback on these fantastic papers – which will be available in E-book format next month.

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Taking Caputo into the [insert practical places discussed]

Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:42:14 -0000

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The Caputo Session at AAR from the past year was amazing! This is part 1 of that night. Part 2 will follow in just a couple of days.

We look forward to your feedback on these fantastic papers – which will be available in E-book format next month. The Theology Nerd Throwdown is excited to welcome Chalice Press. They are the offical publishing sponsor with lots of great books and resources for theology nerds, preachers, and church planters. They just might become your #1 favorite progressive Christian publisher. So check them out.

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TNT: The Pope and Marx

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 23:49:56 -0000

With 20 calls queued up … we made it through exactly 3. When you hear the 3rd call you will understand. We did listen to a bunch of them and plan to keep working through as many as possible so click that speak pipe button.

For more thoughts on the Pope (for Protestants) check out Bo’s post from last week or read Tripp’s (sort of) interview with the Pope.

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6 week online class w/ Peter Rollins

The Theology Nerd Throwdown is excited to welcome Chalice Press. They are the official publishing sponsor with lots of great books and resources for theology nerds, preachers, and church planters. They just might become your #1 favorite progressive Christian publisher. So check them out.

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TNT Bonus: Gendered God, Intelligent Design and Kind Conservatism

Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:54:50 -0000

3 Books for the Price of 1! 6 week online class w/ Peter Rollins

Last week’s 2013 Year In Review show took longer than expected – so we had to break off this conversation into its own episode.

First, Bo talks with Tripp about a ‘Kind’ of Conservatism.

Then Micky and Bo chat about gendering God. You may want to check out Bo’s old post on Calling God She and She Who Is Not as well as Elizabeth Johnson’s Barrel-Aged podcast about the Quest for the Living God.

At minute 30, Tripp returns with some reflections on the Intelligent Design interview from last year that got such a big … shall we say … response from listeners. The Theology Nerd Throwdown is excited to welcome Chalice Press. They are the offical publishing sponsor with lots of great books and resources for theology nerds, preachers, and church planters. They just might become your #1 favorite progressive Christian publisher. So check them out.

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The 2013 Homebrewed Christianity Podcast Awards!

Fri, 17 Jan 2014 04:14:32 -0000

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2013 was an amazing year on the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast network. So Bo and I decided that we would do a little year-end review show. You will get to hear some of our favorite clips, hear what was going through our heads during some of the online scuffles, and find out just who won the coveted Homebrewed Christianity Deacon of the Year!

In the episode we give out awards for Elder of the Year, Episode of the Year, Live Event of Awesomeness, Online Scuffle Spectacular, and Deacon of the Year.

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The Historical St. Nick, the White Santa, Marxist Pope, & More: Christmas Special w/ Adam English

Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:11:37 -0000

Santa & Jesus aren’t white, Christmas isn’t about Capitalism, the Pope isn’t a Marxist leftist, the Christian Calendar is a hardcore form of resistance, and you find out that Roger Olson’s own student turned Tripp into a Process theologian. That is just a bit of what is in store for you in this special Christmas episode!

Tripp planned on just getting a TNT segment out of his chat with Adam… then they just kept talking… and it turned in to a Christmas present for all the Deacons.

Dr. Adam English, author of The Saint Who Would be Clause and Remixing Theology, is professor of Religion and Philosophy at Campbell University. He has been on the podcast before discussing St. Nick & giving us a little taste of Post-Liberal\Conservative theology. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase th rough this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

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Talking #ProcessTheology, Roger Olson & Your Calls #NerdOut #GeekOut

Sat, 14 Dec 2013 22:06:43 -0000

Tripp and Bo tackle everything from the problem of evil (theodicy) to eschatology, kenosis to creation ex nihilo – all from a Process perspective in this mega-cast.

We enjoy call from Evelyn, Nathan, Bill and Tony.

Roger Olson set off a fantastic conversation with blog post last week. We have been gearing up for this episode by responding to Roger Olson, engaging Tony Jones’ post, and fleshing out some pastoral implications of the Process persuasion.

Be sure to check our Deacon Gilmour’s Christian Humanist Podcast & the awesome Star Wars episodes! Also get yourself subscribe to the new Christian Feminist Podcast.

Books Mentioned in the Podcast

God and the World & Christ in a Pluralistic Age by John Cobb
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
Against Calvinism by Roger Olson
The Reality of God and Other Essays by Schubert M. Ogden
A Scandalous Providence: The Jesus Story of the Compassion of God by E. Frank Tupper
The Trinity & the Kingdom by Jurgen Moltmann

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TNT: Letters Edition

Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:32:42 -0000

A cast of two halves! In the first half Bo and Tripp respond to 3 letters from listeners.

Then we get a call with Micky Jones about choosing a seminary (43rd minute) – and when we come back for the 4th and final letter things get a little rowdy. It turns out the resurrection is a topic that brings some important distinctions between the nerds.

Here are some resources that are mentioned on this episode.

How to read the Bible by Kugel

Chalice BIble Commentary series

How to take the Bible seriously but not literally by Borg

The Everyone series by N.T. Wright

Exodus by Fretheim

a mother’s lament

Evangelical defense of same sex

Elizabeth Johnson Barrel Aged

Triune Atonement by Sung-Park

Saved from Sacrifice by Heim

The Non-violent Atonement by Weaver

Contemporary Christologies by Schweitzer

Cross & Covenant by Larry shelton

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TNT: reading, resurrection and a rollicking conversation

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 16:26:12 -0000

Tim and Josh joined Tripp and Bo for the John Caputo book release broadcast and stuck around afterward for a TNT.

This is a rollicking, swashbuckling style of conversation for 44 minutes – then the topic turns to ministry contexts and the tone changes a little bit.

If you are looking for books to read this year HERE are a couple of suggestion from Bo. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase th rough this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

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Labeling Beer, Religion, People & Other Things to Dismiss #NerdOut #GeekOut

Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:43:49 -0000

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Marcus Borg, Tony Jones, & the Resurrection w/ Jonnie #NerdOut

Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:42:29 -0000

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Jonnie joined my in the HBC Headquarters in Redondo Beach. In the podcast we start discussing the resurrection exchange between Marcus Borg & Tony Jones [aka ToJo] & then end up on the necessity of a physical resurrection, atonement, eschatology, evangelical’s Easter concern, and Pannenberg.

Attempting to fill in for the BoDaddy is a difficult task but Jonnie did a pretty good job. I think I will let him back on the TNT w/ the BoDaddy so Bo can make sure we actually stay on topic. You will notice I actually start a couple lists of theological options and then get distracted by Pannenberg and John Cobb. The BoDaddy is a pro and knows to limit such theological temptations. During the podcast we drank the Burning Bush IPA and gave a shout out to 350.org for climate change info.

In the podcast we discuss these books:

1) Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies? & Beyond Liberalism and Fundamentalism by Nancey Murphey

2) Jesus: God & Man by Wolfhart Pannenberg

3) Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time by Marcus Borg

4) Old Testament Theology by Gerhard von Rad

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TNT: Doing Spiritual Stuff In The Real World w/ Barry Taylor

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 22:26:11 -0000

The title says it all: Doing Spiritual Stuff In The Real World w/ Barry Taylor.

Barry Taylor. On doing stuff. Stuff we call ‘spiritual’. In the real world.

This is a really interesting conversation with one of our favorite conversation partners. It was also the warm-up for our evening with Reza Aslan.

We want to thank the Loft LA for hosting us and The Young Romans for providing great music for the evening.

Come to the homepage of HomeBrewedChristianity.com to leave us your comments and questions on the Speakpipe (click on the little microphone).

A video will soon be available for those who want to take in all of the 3-D goodness!

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TNT bonus track: Young People & the Church

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 23:40:41 -0000

In this bonus track Bo chats with Micky Jones about the now infamous Rachel Held Evans post on CNN Religion about young people leaving the church.

Then Bo and Tripp chat about what the topic means as youth pastors at Mainline churches.

These two conversation were originally recorded earlier this summer as part of a bigger conversation that never came together … but instead of just getting rid of the audio, we wanted to use your responses to frame a future episode of the TNT.

Please comment on this post or use the SpeakPipe on the homepage to let us know your thoughts!

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TNT Hyper-Theist Throwdown part 2

Fri, 06 Sep 2013 17:43:11 -0000

After a Summer break, Tripp and Bo catch up for 18 minutes – then they get down to business!

HyperTheist is a term that holds a lot of potential for rupturing the problematic binaries that we have inherited in theology.

The first installment of this conversation was last Summer between Tripp and Callid. This is part 2. Next week will be part 3.

Let us know if you have any comments or questions so that we can cover them in part 3.

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TNT: a Homebrewed Stew of Topics

Tue, 23 Jul 2013 05:48:44 -0000

This edition of the Theology Nerd Throwdown is a smorgasbord of subjects – a cornucopia of concepts – a torrent of topics… you get the idea.

First up is the 30 second definition blind challenge when Bo has to define 3 terms or concepts. This week’s words are: anointing, perichoresis and glossolalia.

Then we chat with Micky Jones about the concept of post-cynical christianity suggested by Jim Wallis.

We take a little break for the High-Gravity broadcast and then pick up with the Bible & Tillich, Hegel, and Process.

Our guest this week was Jonnie Russell who guest blogged last week. He was visiting for the High Gravity conversation.

One production note: Bo forgot to bring the Mp3 call with Micky for Tripp to hear – so he is commenting blindly. THEN something went wonky with the sound and Bo’s audio on the call to Micky was muted so all of Micky’s comments were edited together to sound like a unified piece.

Blogs that will be tied into this episode will be:

Micky’s post on post-cynical christianity
Bo’s pentecost’s initial aim and historic drift
a Radical Theology cliffs-note

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TNT: Caputo and Jones Subvert the Norm

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 01:31:53 -0000

This is the opening session from Subverting the Norm 2 that was held this past Spring.

The incomparable Jack Caputo brings the Radical Theology heat … and Tony Jones responds.

Here are some things that you will want to connect with:

Katharine Sarah Moody (co-organizer of the conference) introduces Caputo. She is a great tweeter – you will want to follow her.
Tony Jones posted the 13 points on his blog.
Subverting the Norm is a website you will want to keep track of for upcoming opportunities to connect.
Caputo’s new book “The Insistence of God: A Theology of Perhaps ” is due out this Fall.

We will, of course, have lots of related events around the release.

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TNT: Micky Jones, the Contrarian Gameshow and Biblical Inerrancy

Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:51:42 -0000

This episode of TNT come in 3 stages. First we meet our new Theology 101 corespondent Micky Jones.

Then Tripp and Tony play the contrarian gameshow.

Micky and Bo finish up by trying to tackle the 3 ‘I’s of Biblical stuff: inerrancy, infallibility and inspiration.

George Fox Evangelical Seminary comes up … as do the definitions out of The Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms.

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TNT: Call-In Special for Church & World Challenge

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:30:44 -0000

Last month Bo & Callid discussed it on TNT, then Bo put out the Church and World Call-In Challenge and hot diggity we got some great calls! This episode is a selection of those calls and the Nerd’s responses.

We want to thank those who donated to the show and sponsored the episodes this month. Thank you to Jay Bakker, John Pohl, as well as Susan Rogers St Laurent and Marc St Laurent.

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Bill Mallonee the Story Telling, Guitar Slinging Troubadour

Fri, 31 May 2013 04:43:53 -0000

Get ready for some backyard tunes from the live Homebrewed Christianity Memorial Day podcast. Bill Mallonee, singer-songwriter of the Vigilantes of Love, visits the podcast again but this time it was in Tripp’s back yard. This podcast is a beautiful set of songs with all the juicy stories told by their composer. When you listen you will ask yourself, “How Can I Get More?” Well… go to Bill’s bandcamp store and download away. There’s even an entire free album!

Check out Bill’s previous visits at the live podcast at Soularize and his interview from 2009.

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TNT: Jim Wallis, the Church and the World

Sat, 11 May 2013 04:18:55 -0000

In this episode: Tripp talks with Jim Wallis about the Common Good and being on God’s side, then Bo and Callid chat about the church and the world.

The four books that come up in this episode are:

On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned about Serving the Common Good by Jim Wallis

The Argument Culture: Stopping America’s War of Words by Deborah Tannen

The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics by Stanley Hauerwas

Rethinking Christ and Culture: A Post-Christendom Perspective by Craig A. Carter

Let your voice be heard! Go to the ‘speak-pipe’ on the home page and let us know what you think about ‘the church and the world’ – we will use it on the TNT in 2 weeks.

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Nerding Out in the OKC!

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:08:14 -0000

This is a live Theology Nerd Throwdown from my visit to Oklahoma City. It was hosted by the local Mutiny Reading group under the leadership of Damien Parks and Todd Littleton. During the evening I talked for an hour about Philosophers loving on Paul, played some tunes, & then got GET interviewed by Greg Horton!

Greg Horton was one of the inspirations behind starting the podcast. He had a podcast called ‘the Parish’ on the wired parish podcast network. Back then he was an emergent Christian and has since left the building. Throughout his journey I have loved following his blog, hearing about his undergrad religion and ethics students, and thinking through some of the serious criticisms he has leveled against the church. Plus he also does some wine reviews. Greg is an intelligent hard a$$ and it was a real honor to get taken to task by him. He wasn’t as rough as he was with Paul Young so I only hope next time I get the harsh treatment!

When I got back from OKC I had over 5 hours of audio from the live podcast and the follow interview with Greg. What you hear is the 90 minutes of the fun. Then evening was lubricated by the Mad Farmer Brewing extraordinaire Charlie who brewed up my Midnight Saison recipe – Dasein!

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TNT: Quaker Cast with Callid Keefe-Perry

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 19:44:25 -0000

Welcome the newest Theology Nerd to the Homebrewed Team! Callid Keefe-Perry is a long-time friend of the podcast and a self-identified Hyper-Theist.

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He is famous for his The Image of Fish blog and one of the ring-leaders of the Theopoetics working group at AAR.

Bo and Callid take a tour of Quaker history, the theological Anabaptist landscape, what the deal is with “Communal Discernment,” and whether or not Rob Bell is doing something bad by not having it. They also wax poetic about why Practical Theology is the discipline that both he and Bo find a home in with the Academy.

You can hear Callid’s earlier appearance on the podcast from last year’s Wild Goose East Festival.

More stuff from Callid about Friends is over at the Jewels of Quakerism Project.

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TNT: Easter Call-In Challenge

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:46:51 -0000

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The deacons have responded to the challenge!

That is exactly what we were hoping for when we cooked up a little obstacle course around issue of crucifixion and resurrection. The callers navigate the obstacles with ease and in doing so get to show off some their best theological moves!

In this hour we hear from folks all the way from the forests of northern British Columbia, to the island of Jersey. In fact, we got calls from Africa, Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe.

Here is a hand-selected sample to showcase a variety of approaches.

We want to thank everyone who called in and all of those that made donations to help support the podcast!

You can read the link to the original challenge here if you need to get up to speed.

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TNT Easter-Cast with Daniel Kirk

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:36:56 -0000

One of our favorite theology nerds – author J.R. Daniel Kirk drops by the HBC Headquarters for an Easter style Throwdown.

This was recorded last year and placed in the cellar to age. What you are about to enjoy is some vintage goodness!

Kirk is the author of Jesus have I love but Paul? and he blogs at Storied Theology.

This is his third visit to the podcast – and he talked with us at Wild Goose West.

WARNING: if you are going to call in a response to the Easter Call-In Challenge, do so before listening Kirk!

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TNT: Same Sex Marriage, Rob Bell and His Detractors

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:18:38 -0000

Happy Birthday! HomeBrewed is celebrating its 5th and BoDaddy is celebrating his 40th!

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On this episode of the Theology Nerd Throw-down, Tripp and Bo talk about same-sex marriage, Rob Bell and his detractors.

This all started when Tripp posted about big platforms coming out in support.

Then Bo posted about Rob and his detractors.

It came to a head when Bo responded to an odd post about how this paints Jesus in a weird light.

You will have to listen to the hour long conversation to put all the pieces together.

At the end – we talk about this Summer’s book series called “High Gravity” with Peter Rollins.

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SoGo TNT: Steve Knight, Atheism for Lent, Missional, and Diversity

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 03:56:52 -0000

Steve Knight of SoGo Media pays a visit to the HBC Headquarters for a TNT worthy of the ‘throw-down’ moniker.

We (mostly) talk about:

Atheism for Lent
What is ‘Missional’?
Why White Guys care about Diversity
and we tell a couple of stories to close

You can find SoGo Media and their awesome array of videos here.

You can connect to Steve Knight via his Twitter account @knightopia to keep up with all of the happenings in his multi-faceted universe.

We also want to thank Epic Brewing for sponsoring the evening.

You can find the Mumford -Music Industry blog post that was referenced [here]

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