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Diana Butler Bass: Ruining Election Night Dinner Nov 09, 2022

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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.Â Normally these conversations are for our community members, but we decided to share this one far and wide.Â To be a part of future zoom sessions and get access to past gatherings, Â joinÂ Dianaâ€™s newsletter community,Â the Cottage &/or the Homebrewed Community.

Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp 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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John Dominic Crossan: the most important discovery for understanding Jesus Nov 02, 2022

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Thrilled to announce our upcoming Advent class with John Dominic Crossan. If you want to dig into the Biblical Christmas narratives with one of the most respected New Testament scholars alive, then signup. It will feature 4 visual lectures, live QnA, a discussion of his book â€˜the First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Birth,â€™ & an online community of interested learners. PLUS, the class is donation based (including 0), so join the fun & get ready to nerd out with your Bibles out.

John Dominic Crossan is an Irish-American biblical scholar with two-year post-doctoral diplomas in exegesis from Romeâ€™s Pontifical Biblical Institute and in archeology from Jerusalemâ€™s Ã‰cole 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, whether 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 the Herodian commercialization of his Galilean lake as present program and future hope of a transformed world and transfigured earth. Crossanâ€™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

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Ryan Burge: Evangelical Jews, Educated Church-Goers, & other bits of dizzying data Oct 29, 2022

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A couple of months ago, Ryan joined to discuss recent data on religion in America. It was a very popular episode, and members of the Homebrewed Community requested more charts! Here it is.

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.

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The Charts We Discuss…(follow Ryan on twitter for more charts)

Religious attendance among African-Americans.

Never/Seldom attend in 2008 vs 2021, by age: 18-35: 35% -> 46% (+11) 36-44: 31% -> 45% (+14) 45-54: 23% -> 43% (+20) 55-64: 25% -> 48% (+23) 65+: 24% -> 40% (+16) pic.twitter.com/jffEBD5cM2

â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 26, 2022

This is empirically, undeniably false.

This is 14 years of the Cooperative Election Study. Total sample size is 547,456.

In no year are those with a college degree more likely to be religiously unaffiliated than those who stopped at a high school diploma. https://t.co/WPze6UCTjd pic.twitter.com/jI8tmSvGsd

â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022

60% of Republican Protestants self-identify as evangelical/born-again. It’s 44% of Democrats.

19% of Republican Jews ID as evangelical. 6% of Democrats.

39% vs 15% for Muslims. 25% vs 8% for Buddhists. 37% vs 11% for Hindus. pic.twitter.com/2SNOL4nVJw

â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 22, 2022

The more white people attend religious services, the more likely they are to identify as politically conservative.

The same is true for Black people.

And Hispanic people.

And Asian people.

It’s hard to find a situation where greater attendance doesn’t lead to conservatism pic.twitter.com/VO6IuBE4Gy

â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 7, 2022

These are the 20 largest seminaries in the United States based on headcount.

One is a mainline seminary: Duke, which is affiliated with the United Methodists.

20,172 students represented here. 97% of them being trained in evangelical seminaries. pic.twitter.com/7qLfc8vdKY

â€” Ryan Burge ? (@ryanburge) October 24, 2022

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Brian McLaren: Should I Stay Christian if I don’t Believe? Oct 27, 2022

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This is the final live stream QnA from theÂ Do I Stay Christian? online class.Â It was a complete blast to hang with Brian and a couple thousand readers

To join Brian, Tripp, and a bunch of their friends at Southern Lights: an Adventure in Progressive ChristianityÂ this January head over here. If you decide to come in person message me so I can send info for the podcast hang.

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for â€œa new kind of Christianityâ€ â€“ just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member ofÂ Â The Living SchoolÂ and podcaster withÂ Learning How to See, which are part of theÂ Center for Action and Contemplation.Â He is also anÂ Auburn Senior FellowÂ and works closely with theÂ Wild Goose Festival,Â theÂ Fair Food Program,Â Vote Common Good, andÂ Progressive Christianity. His recent projects include an illustrated childrenâ€™s book (for all ages) calledÂ Cory and the Seventh StoryÂ andÂ The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey,Â and Faith After Doubt. His newest book isÂ Do I Stay Christian?Â and we are going to read it together.

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Mariana Rios Maldonado: Ethics & Otherness in Tolkien’s Middle-earth Oct 23, 2022

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Mariana Rios Maldonado completed her undergraduate studies in Literature and Spanish Linguistics at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, and her master’s degree in Comparative Literature at the Peter Szondi Institute in Berlin’s Freie Universität. Her research focuses on the influence of Germanic mythology and culture in contemporary literature, Germanophonic fantastic literature between the 18thand 20th centuries, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary production. Mariana is currently a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures of the University of Glasgow with the research project ?“Ethics, Femininity and the Encounter with the Other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Narratives”, funded by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) as well as Mexico’s National Foundation for Fine Arts and Literature (Fundación INBA). She is the Equality and Diversity Officer for the University of Glasgow?’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.

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Theology Beer Camp Debrief Oct 19, 2022

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WOW! Theology Beer Camp was amazing! I had to debrief it with some friends so I invited Nick Polk (Tolkien Heads), Kevin Garcia (Tiny Revolution), Sarah Heath (REVcovery), and Sam Perez (FUNctional Adults /Skip Sandwich Deluxe)Â to join the conversation.

Want to be the first to find out details for Theology Beer Camp 2023? Just sign up here and I will let you know.

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Jennifer Garcia Bashaw: the Gospel through the Eyes of the Victim Oct 07, 2022

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Next week is Theology Beer Camp, and almost all of the speakers have been on the podcast multiple times except my friend and New Testament scholar Jennifer Bashaw. Well, let’s fix that! In this convo, we discuss her new bookÂ Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims and her plans for karaoke Thursday night. Enjoy:)

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw is assistant professor of New Testament and Christian ministry at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. She is an ordained minister and has served a variety of Baptist churches and ministries across the country.

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Leah Robinson: When a Practical Theologian talks about God Oct 05, 2022

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I am excited to have Leah back on the podcast and coming to Theology Beer Camp. If you missed her first visit, then go check it out. It was one of the most popular this past year. The episode was Bad Theology & Jager Bomb Fountains.

Dr. Leah Robinson is Associate Professor of Religion at Pfieffer University.Â You should also follow her on twitter.

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Brian McLaren & Thomas Jay Oord: a God Worthy of Love Oct 03, 2022

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What a treat! I was joined by both Tom Oord and Brian McLaren for this wonderful live stream.

FYI, SacraSage Press recently published a 200+ page book with chapter samples from Tom’s best-selling books. Anyone who joins his newsletter will get a complimentary ecopy.

“Power and the God of Love” is an in-person conference in Napa, California featuringÂ open, relational, and process people (includingÂ Tripp). The conference is November 4-5, 2022, and here’s a link with info.

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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Process This: the Power of Love & the Experience of God w/ Tom Oord & Andrew Davis Oct 01, 2022

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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.

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