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    Christianity

    Homebrewed Christianity

    Our goal is to bring the wisdom of the academy’s ivory tower into your earbuds. Think of each episode as an audiological ingredient for your to brew your own faith. Most episodes center around an interview with a different scholar, theologian, or philosopher.

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    Bill Leonard & Diana Butler Bass: Welcome to the Post-Christian Century Feb 06, 2023
    Show notes

    In this episode, two of my favorite Church Historians join the podcast for a tricky but needed conversation on the changing shape of American religion. It is so much fun!

    If you enjoy this, check out the upcoming lent group with Diana and me – Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age.

    We live in iconoclastic times. All around us, saints and heroes are being knocked off or taken down from public altars. It seems that nearly everyone we once admired or held in esteem has failed us. We’ve stripped the altars of both state and church. America’s spiritual landscape is now marked by empty altars everywhere.

    Taking down statues is nothing new, especially in Christian history. Cynicism and anger at failed institutions and flawed heroes is nothing new. But human beings rarely leave altars empty very long — there’s almost a pressing need to re-sanctify the geographies we inhabit. People always put statues back up.

    But of who? And to commemorate what? How do we move ahead with new saints and a less troublesome iconography? What “saints” can inspire us to address the hurts of our hearts, the brokenness of our communities, and the pressing issues of our times?

    Shouldn’t we just give up on the whole idea of saints anyway? Why bother?

    Join Diana and Tripp this Lent as they explore “sainthood” for an American — and global — future. We’ll share stories that need to be told of “saints” you know and those you need to know in a quirky learning journey through American religious history.

    Dr. Bill Leonard is Founding Dean and Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity. Leonard’s research focuses on Church History with particular attention to American religion, Baptist studies, and Appalachian religion. He is the author or editor of some 25 books including Christianity in Appalachia (1999); Baptist Ways: A History (2003); The Challenge of Being Baptist (2010); Can I Get a Witness?: Essays, Sermons and Reflections (2013); and  A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the U.S., (2014). In March 2015 he delivered the William James Lecture on Religious Experience at Harvard Divinity School and in February 2017 he gave the William Self Lectures on Preaching at McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University. His newest book, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History: Flaming Heretics and Heavy Drinkers, was  published by Fortress Press in July 2017. Leonard is on the board of the Journal of Disability and Religion, The Baptist Quarterly (England), the Day1 Preaching Network, the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, and the Governing Board of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. His sabbatical research focuses on a new book, tentatively entitled: “Security or Idolatry?: A History of Religion and Firearms in the U.S.† Leonard writes a twice-monthly column for Baptist News Global, is an ordained Baptist minister, and a member of First Baptist Church, Highland Avenue (American Baptist Churches, USA) in Winston-Salem.

    Check out these books by Dr. Leonard:
    • A Sense of the Heart: Christian Religious Experience in the United States
    • Baptist Ways: A History
    • The Challenge of Being Baptist: Owning a Scandalous Past and an Uncertain Future
    • Word of God Across the Ages: Using Christian History in Preaching
    • The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Church History: Flaming Heretics and Heavy Drinkers
    Previous Podcasts w/ Dr. Leonard
    • the Fundamentalization of American Religion
    • Listening Beyond the Times
    • The History and Transformation of American Christianity
    • Faith and Politics Through Church History
    Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp
    • Ruining Christmas Dinner
    • Ruining Election Night Dinner
    • The Over-Rated Genie God
    • 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
    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Pete Enns & the God-Pod Party Feb 01, 2023
    Show notes THIS PARTY WAS FOR PETE’S NEW BOOK. CHECK IT OUT HERE. The God-Pod Partners Include:
    • Sarah Heath from the REVcovery Podcast
    • Josh Patterson from the (Re)thinking Faith Podcast
    • Sarey Martin Concepción from the Secret Art Project Podcast
    • Mason Mennega from a People’s Theology Podcast
    Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    The Living & Liberating Mystery #ExperiencingGod Jan 29, 2023
    Show notes Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    This Episode is Sponsored By Christian Theologial Seminary

    Are you discerning a call to ministry or leadership? Christian Theological Seminary understands you can’t put your life on pause to complete your Master of Divinity degree. Thanks to new remote learning technology and their redesigned MDiv, you no longer have to. Their redesigned MDiv program now offers remote learning options for completing classes without eliminating the traditional in-person classroom experience. With consistent course offerings and individualized degree mapping, students can complete the required credit hours at their own pace with minimal on-site intensive days, creating an equitable experience from anywhere. They’re bringing CTS to you and opening access to excellent preparation for ministry and ordination. Learn more at www.CTS.edu

    Sarey Martin Concepción is a writer, podcast producer, and filmmaker with roots in L.A. and Portland, OR. She has an MA in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary and works as communications director for Blueprint 1543, which cultivates integration between theology and the psychological sciences. Currently, she’s in preproduction on a feminist, sci-fi short film (winemakermovie.com). Before pursuing independent fiction and nonfiction projects, she worked for 10 years as part of Rob Zombie’s production and management team. More at secretartproject.com.

    Dr. Adam Clark is Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University. He is committed to the idea that theological education in the twenty first century must function as a counter-story. One that equips us to read against the grain of the dominant culture and inspires one to live into the Ignatian dictum of going forth “to set the world on fire.†To this end, Dr. Clark is intentional about pedagogical practices that raise critical consciousness by going beneath surface meanings, unmasking conventional wisdoms and reimagining the good. He currently serves as co-chair of Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion, actively publishes in the area of black theology and black religion and participates in social justice groups at Xavier and in the Cincinnati area. He earned his PhD at Union Theological Seminary in New York where he was mentored by James Cone.

    Previous Episodes w/Â Adam:

    Cancel Culture, Rogan, Whoopi, Chappelle, & the NFL

    Gary Dorrien & Adam Clark: James Cone and the Emergence of Black Theology

    Serene Jones & Adam Clark: Theology Matters and the Legacy of James Cone

    The Crisis of American Religion & Democracy: 1/6 a year later

    Christmas, BLM, Abortion, & the War on White Evangelicalism

    Jan 6th Theological Debrief: Adam Clark and Jeffrey Pugh

    Adam Clark: What is Black Theology?

    From Lebron James to the Black Panther: Black Theology QnA w/ Adam Clark

    Adam Clark: James Cone was right

    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 programat 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.

    Some Previous Tripp & Tom Pods
    • Process This!
    • Process Theology QnA
    • Authority, Atonement, Abortion, and a Big Hug
    • from Pluriform Love to Divine Revelation
    • Big God Twitter Takes
    • Trump is (NOT) a Process Theologian & Other Questions
    • Thomas Jay Oord wants you to know “God Can’tâ€
    • Open and Relational Theology Throwdown
    • Open and Relational Q&A with Thomas Jay Oord
    • Why Go Wesleyan?
    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Science and Spiritual Experience #Experiencing God Jan 28, 2023
    Show notes Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Dr. Myron Penner is a professor of philosophy at Trinity Western University and director of the Anabaptist-Mennonite Centre for Faith and Learning. On top of being a stellar scholar, he is a dear friend and the coolest Mennonite Canadian philosopher on planet earth

    Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie received her B.A. in Philosophy & Religion from Spring Arbor University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and an M.Sc. in Science & Religion from the University of Edinburgh. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh in Science & Religion with a thesis on divine action and the human mind, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of St. Andrews. She has published a book with Cambridge University Press and numerous articles in academic journals, and continues research in the field of science and religion.

    Dan Koch is one of my favorite people. He reached out to connect in person when he was thinking of starting a podcast, and since then, he has not only produced several quality podcasts, but I have grown to love having him in my life. Pretty Good Vibrations analyzes and celebrates pop and rock music and its crucial role throughout our lives. Podcast veteran and host Dan Koch (You Have Permission Podcast) has been a professional musician for most of the last 20 years: songwriter for the emo-pop band Sherwood, then as a commercial composer since 2012. Multiple episode styles include bracket-style tournaments, chronological walk-throughs, and deep dives into genres, artists, and eras. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

    Sarey Martin Concepción is a writer, podcast producer, and filmmaker with roots in L.A. and Portland, OR. She has an MA in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary and works as communications director for Blueprint 1543, which cultivates integration between theology and the psychological sciences. Currently, she’s in preproduction on a feminist, sci-fi short film (winemakermovie.com). Before pursuing independent fiction and nonfiction projects, she worked for 10 years as part of Rob Zombie’s production and management team. More at secretartproject.com. Sarah, Dan, & Myron’s Previous Podcast Visits
    • Religious Trauma, Bracketing Belief, & the Best Reason to Believe in God
    • Sex, God, & Gender
    • Navigating Philosophy & Religion
    • a Minimally Viable God Concept
    • Staff Lounge Shenanigans
    • Can Scientists study gods, souls, and rituals?
    • an Integrated Physicality and the Sacred
    • Trilogies, Atonement Power Rankings, & Sex Work at Happy Hour
    • Everyone You Ever Loved Will Die, so Merry Christmas!
    • Kombucha, Meditation, Tarot, and Stink Bombs
    • Only Friends Share Mixtapes
    • You Have Permission to be Awesome
    • The Best Antidote to Rampant Partisanship
    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    John Dominic Crossan: Jesus, Paul, & Bible Questions Jan 22, 2023
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    Legendary Bible Scholar, John Dominic Crossan, is back on the podcast! In this episode, we tackle some listener questions and let everyone know about an upcoming class – Easter Stories.

    John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-American biblical scholar with two-year post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalem’s École Biblique. He has been a mendicant friar and a catholic priest, a Co-Chair of the Jesus Seminar, and a President of the Society of Biblical Literature. His focus, whether scholarly or popular, in books, videos, or lectures, is on the historical Jesus as the norm and criterion for the entire Christian Bible. His reconstructed Jesus incarnates nonviolent resistance to the Romanization of his Jewish homeland and future hope of a transformed world and transfigured earth. Crossan’s method is to situate biblical texts within the reconstructed matrix of their own genre and purpose, their own time and place, and to hear them accurately for then before accepting or rejecting them for now.

    Previous Podcast Episodes with Dom & Tripp
    • Saving the Biblical Christmas Stories
    • the most important discovery for understanding Jesus
    • The Bible, Violence, & Our Future
    • Resurrecting Easter
    • on the First Christmas
    •  From Jesus’ Parables to Parables of GodÂ
    • Render Unto Caesar
    • on God & Empire
    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Bad Theology… Good God! Jan 19, 2023
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    Dr. Leah Robinson is Associate Professor of Religion at Pfieffer University. You should also follow her on twitter. Her previous visits to the podcast include Bad Theology & Jager Bomb Fountains and When a Practical Theologian talks about God.

    Rev. Sarah Heath is a Methodist minister who left the ministry behind. She hosts several podcasts, including REVcovery. Her previous visits to the podcast include The Theology Beer Camp Debrief and The Gift of Being a Minister.

    Sarey Martin Concepción is a writer, podcast producer, and filmmaker with roots in L.A. and Portland, OR. She has an MA in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary and works as communications director for Blueprint 1543, which cultivates integration between theology and the psychological sciences. Currently, she’s in preproduction on a feminist, sci-fi short film (winemakermovie.com). Before pursuing independent fiction and nonfiction projects, she worked for 10 years as part of Rob Zombie’s production and management team. More at secretartproject.com.

    Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Aaron Simmons: Philosophy & the Experience of God Jan 09, 2023
    Show notes

    This is the kick-off live stream for our newest online class – Experiencing God Discerning the Divine in Human Experience. Check it out and join the fun!

    Dr. Aaron Simmons is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University.

    • His previous visits to the podcast include…”Do I Have a Soul? & other cultural preferences in bold,” â€Off-Road Religion & Pandemic Philosophizing,†â€Smells Like Teenage Phenomenology†& “Whose Christianity, Which Postmodernism?â€
    • Youtube Channel, “Philosophy for Where We Find Ourselvesâ€:
    • TedX Speaker: “The Failure of Successâ€

    Tim Whitaker runs the New Evangelicals and all its outputs. He was also “let go†as a drummer for asking too many questions. The gateway to their stuff is on IG ?

    Sarey Martin Concepción is a writer, podcast producer, and filmmaker with roots in L.A. and Portland, OR. She has an MA in Theology and the Arts from Fuller Theological Seminary and works as communications director for Blueprint 1543, which cultivates integration between theology and the psychological sciences. Currently, she’s in preproduction on a feminist, sci-fi short film (winemakermovie.com). Prior to pursuing independent fiction and nonfiction projects, she worked for 10 years as part of Rob Zombie’s production and management team. More at secretartproject.com.

    Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Here’s the trailer for Experiencing God (the online class) Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Ryan Burge: a Year in Religion (w/ graphs) Jan 05, 2023
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    Dr. Ryan Burge is back on the podcast with his most popular charts of data on religion. The graphs we discuss are the 5 most popular he shared over the last year on his nerdy twitter.

    Ryan P. Burge is an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University. Author of numerous journal articles, he is the co-founder of and a frequent contributor to Religion in Public, a forum for scholars of religion and politics to make their work accessible to a general audience. Burge is a pastor in the American Baptist Church.

    Previous Visits from Ryan Burge

    • Evangelical Jews, Educated Church-Goers, & other bits of dizzying data
    • 5 Religion Graphs w/ a side of Hot Takes
    • Myths about Religion & Politics
    Here are the 5 most popular Chart Tweets we discussed

    In 1991, 87% of people aged 18-35 years old were Christians. 8% of them identified as religiously unaffiliated.

    By 1998, 73% of young people were Christians (a 14 point drop) and 21% of young people identified as nones (a 13 pt. increase).

    America lost its religion in 1990s. pic.twitter.com/oPL2UYzswY

    — Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) April 4, 2022

    The drop in fertility over the last decade is primarily among Democrats.

    Peak parenting in 2010: 65% of Republicans in their late 30s were parents. 62% of Democrat

    Peak parenting in 2020: 60% of Republicans in their late 30s were parents. 50% of Democrat pic.twitter.com/m3HmjaT1Up

    — Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) November 28, 2022

    Do people become more conservative as they age? This data tells a nuanced story.

    For those born between 1930 and 1949, they did move rightward between 2008 and 2021.

    1950-1964 saw no change at all.

    Those born in 1965 or later have moved to the left between 2008 and 2021. pic.twitter.com/WqpGXy3T43

    — Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) April 20, 2022

    In 1988, 6% of white Democrats took an atheist or agnostic position about God. It was 3% of nonwhite Democrats.

    In 2021, 32% of white Democrats were atheist/agnostic. It was 8% of nonwhite Democrats.

    There’s never really been a racial God Gap for Republicans.

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    Toasting Tolkien on his 131st Birthday #TolkienBirthdayToast Jan 03, 2023
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    Today J.R.R. Tolkien turns 131! My buddy and pro-Tolkien nerd Nick Polk joined me to share a toast to Tolkien and reflect on a passage we selected as we enter a new year. After the toast, you will hear our special Tolkien Heads session from Theology Beer Camp, which was a bunch of fun.

    Nick Polk is the production editor for Mallorn, the academic journal of The Tolkien Society. His most recent research includes his essay entitled “Middle-earth in South Park: The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers as Parody.†Other than Tolkien, his other loves include his wife Kelly, coffee, and punk. Nothing sounds better than starting the day reading a Tolkien book with a cup of coffee and ending it in a moshpit with loved ones.

    Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Here’s the trailer for Experiencing God (the online class) Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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    Matthew Segall: Processing the Political Jan 02, 2023
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    Matthew Segall returns to the podcast! This was recorded in person in Napa, Ca where he gave a talk on Process-Relational Politic al Theology. You can see his blog post about the talk here.

    Dr. Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher and teacher applying process philosophy across various natural and social sciences, including the study of consciousness.  He is also the  Assistant Professor in the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA.

    Make sure you check out his YouTube channel and the new book. You can listen to our last podcast conversation – Cosmology, Consciousness, and Whitehead’s God.

    Experiencing God: an Open Online Class

    Kick off the new year with a nerdy good time. The next Homebrewed class will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world. Check it out here.

    Here’s the trailer for Experiencing God (the online class) Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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