Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

Mickey ScottBey Jones and Tripp interview Emilie Townes and Joerg Rieger for the Theology Happy Hour at the Wild Goose Festival. And just like those who joined live, you can play along at home. Every time they say a word you haven't heard in the last 60 days, take a drink! Joerg and Tripp are up first, talking about Joerg's new book, Unified We Are A Force. Plus, Joerg gives an intro to liberation theology and Gustavo Gutierrez, how Karl Barth was impacted by working class people in Switzerland, and how those with privilege can use it. Then, Mickey and Emilie talk about Emilie's journey in womanist theology, if white dudes can do womanist theology and if not, what should they do with it, indigenous woman theology, health, and wellness. Lastly, the Happy Hour ends with the softball game! Emilie and Joerg are lobbed theological softballs and knock them out of the park. Pitches include: intersectionality, emodiment, theological solidarity, God is black, polydoxy. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send fee

This is the (edited) live podcast from the Wild Goose Festival! Christian Piatt talks to Tripp about his new book Leaving A-Holiness Behind: From Pious Jerk to Not-So-Pious Jerk Amy Piatt tells us Christian's lack of skills when they started dating Tripp, Christian, and Amy answer questions sent in on the speak pipe... Quakers during the apocalypse the gnostic redeemer myth's best hymn how much structure could a post-structuralist muster, if a post-structuralist could muster structure? how to heresy hunt as a progressive Christian & Tripp vents on Protestants using Creeds and a bunch of other topics... Kristen Howerton tells us important things... namely that you need Croc Wedges. Micky ScottBey Jones throws down in an EPIC theological parenting battle with Kristen Josh Linton from Phillips Theological Seminary drops a zesty toast before we sing. Enjoy! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

We're getting hermeneutical with Dan Stiver and Paul Ricoeur. Dan Stiver is an accomplished Ricoeur scholar and a Baptist theologian. This rare combination means that we have a treat of an episode! He is also the Cook-Derrick Professor of Theology in the Logsdon School of Theology. In this episode Tripp and Dan will tackle the relationship between philosophy and theology in the free church tradition and what it means to be a Christian theologian after Ricoeur. Plus a discussion on how Ricouer understands: the nature of truth how narrative functions in meaning making the idea of self the problem of evil There are quite a lot of books mentioned in this episode, so here is a list for your enjoyment: Theology After Ricoeur by Dan Stiver The Conflict of Interpretations by Paul Ricoeur Thinking Biblically by Paul Ricoeur Essays of Biblical Interpretation by Paul Ricoeur Lectures on Ideology and Utopia by Paul Ricoeur Freedom and Nature by Paul Ricoeur Phenomenology of Perception by Ma

Do you like nerdy theological conversations that will blow your mind? You are in luck. Rev. Dr. Jay E. Johnson, from the Pacific School of Religion, is on the podcast talking about queer theology, embodiment, sexuality, Eucharistic dance parties, and what the church needs to learn about sex and sexuality. Plus, Jay gives us some tips to be better allies. He also discusses he last two books, Peculiar Faith: Queer Theology for Christian Witness and Divine Communion: A Eucharistic Theology of Sexual Intimacy. You can check out his website, peculiarfaith.com or the epic live podcast he did at GTU. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is time to talk Rudolf Bultmann and his mission to demythologize the gospel. We shall get zesty! David W. Congdon earned a PhD in theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and is associate editor at IVP Academic. You can check out his blog here. If you want to impress your friends with a giant Bultmann text check out The Mission of Demythologizing. You can check out David's more introductory text to Bultmann here. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special podcast you will get answers to the questions the audience sent in. Luke joined me for the fun. After the #Devilpalooza we asked for questions and oh did we get questions. A bunch of questions. Excellent questions. It took Luke and I just over 2 hours to answer them all and this episode is just the second half of the questions. To listen to the first half you just need to head over to his newest episode and enjoy the goodness. You can go watch the LIVE tag-team podcast with Luke and Tony last month. It features NT Wright, Greg Boyd, and Richard Beck, who was celebrating the release of his new book Reviving Old Scratch.  Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sallie McFague is on the podcast reminding us that we can indeed be in love with God and the world. She is one of the most important living theologians and a pioneer of Christian feminist theology. Currently she is the Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. Prior she taught for thirty years at Vanderbilt University Divinity School.  Sallie and Tripp cover a lot of ground in the episode, including how Sallie became a theologian (which includes a kindergarten revelation), her focus on religious language, radical love, kenosis, panentheism, and even some member submitted questions, including: How does her concept of wild spaces address privilege In the revival of radical theology recently, how do you understand the reality of God? Where should one start with feminist theology? What do you think about the increased usage of the term Anthropocene? And don't forget to check out Sallie's books, Blessed Are The Consumers and Models Of God. Foll

This is the second in a trinity of podcasts exploring the intersection of Jesus, faith, and film. Think of these as companion podcasts to help you unpack all of the cinematic and theological nuggets. Round two: Ryan Parker, Barry Taylor, and Tripp talk about the *best* Jesus movie of all time: Jesus of Montreal spoiler alert: if you haven't see seen it, listen to this, watch the movie, and then listen to this again. If you have seen it, listen and enjoy. In this episode of #JConScreen Ryan, Barry, and Tripp discuss a whole host of topics including: the passion play the church and economy politics of story sex capitalism advertising Apocalypse, and more! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trey Pearson from the band Everday Sunday is back on the podcast to talk with Tripp about faith, doubt, sexuality, and what it's like to come out publicly. You can watch the video of their interview here. You can read the 614 article with excerpts from the letter to his fans here. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The questions of Christianity are perennial. Today we are gonna talk about them with church historian Derek Cooper. How are Judaism and Christianity related? Are Jesus and the Holy Spirit God? Is the end of the world imminent? How should we relate faith and reason? In this episode and the book Derek tells the story of Christian history by presenting the twenty questions (one for each century!) that shaped the Christian church throughout the world. Each century of world Christian history is explored by means of one question that attempts to encapsulate the central themes and concerns of that century for Christianity. Coverage of each century is sensitive to world regions and theological and cultural concerns that are often overlooked and neglected in books that are oriented in a more Western way. Dr. Derek Cooper is associate professor of world Christian history at Biblical Theological Seminary near Philadelphia. He hails from the mighty country of Texas but is a long-term resident of Pennsylvania.  Check

This is the first in a trinity of podcasts exploring the intersection of Jesus and film. Think of these as companion podcasts to help you unpack all of the cinematic and theological nuggets. Round one is Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. Before diving into the movie, Tripp, Ryan, and Barry talk about Jesus films in general, what it means to interpret a film (especially about Jesus), culture, hermeneutics, and: Why take movies seriously? How not to watch a film about Jesus Why do watching movies affect you differently than other art forms? Spoiler alert: this episode contains significant discussion of several scenes from the movie. If you are like Tripp and have never actually seen The Last Temptation of Christ then you can rent it digitally right now and nerd out with your screen out. Want to watch bits on youtube? The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) - Christ and Pilate jesus meet saint paul ----from temptation Judas Betray Last Temptation of Christ Here's other thought provoking 

Peter Enns is back on the podcast talking about mystery, doubt, and his latest book, The Sin of Certainty. He is currently on the faculty at Eastern University and teaches courses in Old and New Testaments. Peter is a regular Homebrewed guest, and you can check out some previous interviews here and here. Don't forget to check out his website: the Bible for normal people. Also, in this episode we previewed something we call The Big 5: the five books that have shaped or influenced your thought or practice (even though Peter only gave four). Stay tuned for more of these lists from some of our Homebrewed regulars. favorite book to teach: Genesis this book changed my mind: Traditions of the Bible  and Sinai and Zion how many times have I read that?! Creation and the Persistence of Evil I wish I wrote that! The Chronicles of Narnia Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's a little mid-week podcast treat. The live podcast from Raleigh was a bit long for one episode so here's the conclusion of the podcast with Dr. Jonas. He is a professor of church history at Campbell University. In our conversation you will hear some history of the church and my own memories of history from my time at Campbell. If you missed the first episode from Raleigh go check it out here and get your nerd on. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode was recorded live in Charlotte, North Carolina, at Birdsong Brewing. Anthony Smith and Ben Boswell join on the mic. Anthony Smith is a minister at Mission House in Salisbury, NC. We became friends in 2006 at the Emergent Village Cohort in Charlotte and ever since I have loved getting a chance to talk and be challenged by Anthony. Ben Boswell is a friend from undergrad who mistakingly went to Divinity school at Duke. Despite that we are still friends and he is senior minister at Myers Park Baptist Church who were hosting me for the weekend. If you are in Charlotte and looking for a church, make sure to check them out. You can also hear my sermon from the visit here. Birdsong Brewing company were excellent hosts. Not only were the people and the space stellar, but the beer was legit. I enjoyed the Brown Ale and the Jalapeño Pale Ale was super zesty. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megapho

It is time for the DEVILPALOOZA! This is a zesty episode of the podcast. Even the Duke of not-so-intersteing media coverage couldn't ruin it. Heads up, our intro lasts a full twenty minute introduction. Then at the  21:00 mark the actual Devilapalooza begins with Tripp, Tony Jones and Luke.  At 31:30 Richard Beck comes on the stage talking Reviving Old Scratch , N.T. Wright joins at 55:20,  and at 1:19:12 Greg Boyd gets on the mic.  If you are really desperate for more go the intro, Luke and Tripp finish at 1:46:53, For all those who came - thank you. For Duke and Luke who showed up - thank you. For Tom, Greg, and Richard - thank you. For my bestie and podcast guru TJ - thank you. For Kat and her very zesty space  - thank you. Now it is time to nerd out! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ewan McGregor is on the podcast. Tripp got to chat with Ewan and director Rodrigo Garcia about the movie Last Days in the Desert. Then he got to talk it up with producer and Texan Bonnie Curtis about her own spiritual experience of making a Jesus film. She is #AwesomeSauce. The official film description is: Last Days in the Desert follows Jesus (Ewan McGregor) in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil, also played by McGregor, over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts. After the interview, Tripp and Nathan unpack some of the themes from the movie: The temptations and Jesus' identity Nietzsche's critique of Christianity The difference between being cured, and being healed Divine flatus Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit mega

In this episode you will head down south to Raleigh, North Carolina, for a live podcast with two of my favorite Camels - Glenn Jonas and Adam English. Both of these former professors of mine made the ride up from Campbell University in Buies Creek to the Flying Saucer in downtown Raleigh for the live theological excitement. The room was packed full of friends new and old. Flying Saucer had arranged to provide one of NC's best beers, the Jade IPA by Foothills Brewing Company to be filling up the HBC pint glasses. Adam came prepared to grill me about my book The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus. The questions were great and they definitely spawned some excellent conversation. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Who doesn't want to know the story of the story of God with Morgan Freeman? It is super meta and fascinating. In this episode Barry Taylor and I talk to the show' producer James Younger. We cover all sorts of topics and get some fascinating insights about the process of creating the National Geographic Channel series. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is a super special episode. I have been looking forward having James Evans on the podcast since I first read his Systematic Theology in Divinity School. Luckily Callid Keefe-Perry was able to connect with him an have an amazing conversation. James Evans is the Robert K. Davies Professor of Systematic Theology at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. If you have yet to read We Have Been Believers: An African American Systematic Theology then get on it now. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices