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**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.

Latest Episodes:

Peter Rollins: friends are friends forever Apr 17, 2021

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Peter Rollins returns to the podcast and we have a bunch of fun.

Some of Pete's previous visits

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Gerardo Marti: a Sociologist on American Religion Apr 07, 2021

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Dr. Gerardo Marti is a professor of Sociology at Davidson in North Carolina. His research centers around race-ethnicity, religion, identity, inequality, and social change. Through his research, he works to uncover the dynamics of contemporary issues like diversity, religious innovation, and political power. In this conversation, we not only get a vision of sociology of religion as a field but look at a number of Gerardo's research projects. It is also an amazingly fun conversation!

Here's a few of his books to check out:

American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency

The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry

Latino Protestants in America: Growing and Diverse

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Tony Jones: the Post-Emergent Church Mar 22, 2021

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Long time friend of the podcast - Tony Jones - is back. This episode includes a bit of storytelling about origins of the podcast, the emerging church movement, and thoughts about the church post-collapse .

We talk about...

That one time with discussed demons on a roof with Greg Boyd and NT Wright
The Phyllis Tickle beer
the origin story of homebrewed
we edited a bunch of stories out of the podcast... also for clarity Homebrewed started as a theology pub group with rewritable CDs and then became a podcast... so the blog/group is 15 years and the podcast 13 years old.
once Anthony Smith and Scot McKnight hung out at the cigar store I had a Bible study in. This store is awesome.
Tony makes me awkward with kindness
Why I am a hobbit and Sanco Panza?
What is it like to stay in a hotel together?
What was the biggest failure of the emerging church movement?
Emergent Village was lots of fun and full of really cool friends.
When the internet trolls finally apologize
How our minds have changed
What Mainline Protestants did with emerging church leaders... youth ministers
Will the American church or democracy die first?
Does Tripp or Tony think the world is more f*cked?
the task of learning how to be human in community again
Tripp tries hard not to vent about Boomers
"we don't deserve any of this sh!t"
Tripp's lockdown nightmare reflections are depressing
would the emerging church movement have survived with Twitter?
how horrible is platform building?
i like being Tony's friend
tony and tripp's post-collapse retirement podcast plan

A Few Previous Podcast Visits with Tony

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Joerg Rieger: the End of Religion & Business as Usual Mar 17, 2021

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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.

Previous Podcasts with Joerg & Tripp

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On John Polkinghorne: Creation, Prayer, Miracles, and Time Mar 13, 2021

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"John Polkinghorne said his being a physicist-priest might strike some like being a vegetarian-butcher. But in his writings, speaking, teaching, and ministry, he showed one could affirm the best of both science and theology. John died on March 9, 2021. I was privileged to work with him on several projects, including a book we called The Polkinghorne Reader. It included what he thought was the best excerpts from his various books. Tripp and I talked about his influential work as an open theist in the science-and-religion dialogue. Enjoy as we explore his ground-breaking ideas!" - Thomas Jay Oord

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Douglas Ottati: Reformed Theology for the 21st Century Mar 07, 2021

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Douglas Ottati joins the podcast for his 5th visit to discuss his new book, A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. This is one of the most significant Protestant Systematic Theologies in years. I absolutely loved it. Of course, I talk about Ottati's Christology in my recent book so I am a bit of a fan. Ottati is the Craig Family Distinguished Professor in Reformed Theology and Justice Ministry at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. In our conversation we discuss:

the nature and role of piety for Christian theology
the historicity of religious traditions
CS Pierce and the practice of musement
how the enlightenment has shaped our engagement with the world
the power of market & religious liturgies
why Jonathan Edwards gets a bad wrap
the task of being in a living tradition
how monuments work with history
theological anthropology
reasons to keep a thick doctrine of sin
why Schleiermacher is so awesome for thinking Christ & community
thinking theologically about the fissures and tensions in the life of the church and culture
how pastoral questions & challenges lead to economic and political critique
the problematic relations between church & academy

Previous Visits to the Podcast

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Chase Tibbs: Why Go Christian Socialist? Mar 03, 2021

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This is a special crossover episode with Chase Tibbs from the Faith and Capital podcast. In our conversation, Chase gives 5 reasons to go 'Christian Socialist.' Most theology nerds know that the overwhelming majority of theologians in the 2oth century were socialists. Barth, Tillich, Niebuhr, Guiterrez and more were all committed Christian socialists, and yet today, many Christians wrongly assume the two are incompatible. I doubt everyone is going to be persuaded, but I hope more people will come to see how Chase's faith deeply informs his politics.

OHHH Chase's pod is celebrating its 2nd birthday. If you haven't listened to it before and are interested in a show inviting Christians to participate in the struggle for emancipation, then give it a listen.

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Kevin Max: From DC Talk to Spiritual Cosmonaut Feb 25, 2021

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How do you become a hippie socialist Jesus Freak? Well, this is the story of one of them.

Very excited to have Kevin Max on the podcast!

Kevin is a four-time Grammy-winning vocalist, whose work began in DC Talk and has since explored a host of different genres from spoken-word, electronica, and rock. Currently, he is launching a new indie rock band - Sad Astronauts. You can find out how to participate in the band's first project by heading over to their kickstarter page.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Kevin shares about the birth of DC talk, the Christian music industry, his time at Liberty University, his faith deconstruction story, his friendship with Larry Norman (this awesome tribute album), and a number of fascinating stories.

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Staff Lounge Shenanigans with Sarah Lane Ritchie & Joshua Ralston Feb 18, 2021

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We continue a hardcore lockdown here in Scotland, so I talked two of my co-workers into joining me digitally to answer some of your questions. Just think of it as an audio simulation of a staff lounge conversation.

Dr. Joshua Ralston is a Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations here at the University of Edinburgh. He recently published Law and the Rule of God: A Christian Engagement with Shari'a and was part of launching this new free online class on Christian-Muslim Relations. You should really sign-up.

Dr. Sarah Lane Ritchie is Lecturer in Theology and Science at the University of Edinburgh. You can check out her other visits to the podcast here.

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John Thatamanil: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity Feb 16, 2021

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Friend of the podcast and theological super-star John Thatamanil is back on the podcast to talk about his ohhh sooo good new book Circling the Elephant. We had a bunch of nerdy fun and discussed...

the task of comparative theology and its relation to constructive theology
why the category of religion is problematic
the patronizing skills of Radical Orthodoxy
the story of the blind elephant
JT throws shade at those Process peeps with multiple ultimates
moving beyond the mono-logics of Barthian revelation and Rahner's Trinity
a fun excurses into Paul Tillich on Pluralism
"If God can speak through a dead dog, then God can surely speak through a Hindu"
pre-validating the mystery of the other
"There is no way of moving towards the mystery of God without moving towards the mystery of your Neighbor"
the Father Bracken book I mention The Divine Matrix: Creativity as Link Between East and West
"You cannot know what you do not love."
How the market is dreaming its dreams within us and tutoring our desire.
the possibility of a comparative theology of culture
the Judith Butler we both mentioned: The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind
religions may have the possibility of making us heretics to economism... good news.
the Joseph Henrich I am a bit obsessed with The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
our conversation ends up on one of my favorite books How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human... not sure how many episodes this book has come up, but if John, Willie Jennings, and Jacob Erickson bring it up it must be good.
I tell a story about the religious agenda of the World Bank
If Christian theology has conformed itself to University modes of knowing, as a kind of academic discipline, but theology within Hinduism and Buddhism remain a practice