Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

With over 5 years of interviews under out belt - having gone from just friends listening to 50k - realizing that there are a ton of people who can't get the best interviews from the past - let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast. I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio. This is the second episode of John Caputo's first visit to the podcast.  It was an EPIC conversation you are sure to enjoy.  It's like meeting JC again for the first time! Make sure you check out the amazing bloggers engaging Caputo's newest book The Insistence of God on a Homebrewed Book Tour. 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

Daniel Kirk is on the podcast.  The most sensational Theo-Blogger, Homebrewing, Fuller Professor of New Testament, and fellow Wake Forest Demon Deacon [he also went to Duke and UNC Chapel Hill but I forgive him for that... Go Deacs!] is on the podcast with a bunch of topics he's looking to settle with me.  We had an amazing local for this conversation... only Orange County's greatest brewery... the Bruery.  Not only is the Bruery in my Top 10 list of Craft Breweries but Deacon Brian White is one of their master of the taps. Kirk's previous visits to the podcast include this LIVE one from Mark Scandrette's house party in San Fran with Philip Clayton and a sweet discussion of Easter recorded during Holy Week. Go check out his blog & follow him on twitter. 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 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! 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

Reza Aslan, New York Times #1 BestSelling Author of Jesus: The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth recorded a live Podcast with Tripp and Bo. As you will hear, Reza rolled with our rowdy style of theological zesty-ness. 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! 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 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! 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

Are you ready to dance? Good. Trey Pearson from Everyday Sunday is on the podcast.  What happens when you become a successful Christian Rocker at 17, sell a half million records & keep developing as an artist and thinker?  Well Trey is figuring that out & you can hear about it here. This episode was recorded live in two parts at the Wild Goose Festival.  Christian Piatt from the HBC Culture Cast joined Tripp for the first part of the interview & then finished up the conversation later during the festival. 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

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. 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

One of the highlights of Wild Goose Festival 2013 was a panel discussion organized by the Human Rights Campaign and hosted by Dr. Sharon Groves, the director of HRC's Religion and Faith Program. In Groves words, "2013 will go down in the history books as one of the most pivotal years for religious leaders working on justice issues. People of faith in unprecedented numbers were instrumental in bringing about the tremendous gains the LGBTQ community has enjoyed, culminating in the Supreme Court decision to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). People of faith also saw the gut-wrenching losses to sacred Civil Rights legislation, most particularly in the Supreme Court’s other decision to dismantle the Voting Rights Act, for which many have given their lives. The effects of these two decisions rest heavily on our collective conscience and forces us to recommit to Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin’s core organizing tenet that 'we are all one.'" Sub-titled "Southern Faith Leaders Re-framing the Work for Fre

When Brian McLaren calls and says, "Tripp you gotta record this & share it.  I think James is gonna be gold." then you do it.  This episode is a conversation between James Alison & Brian McLaren.  It took place as part of a Raven Foundation event that explored how the work of René Girard could transform our understanding of the Christian story, atonement, violence, politics and more. Brian McLaren is podcast regular, activist, author, and emerging church pioneer.  James Alison is a Catholic theologian, priest, and author who identifies as gay who developed Jesus the Forgiving Victim, a program of induction into the Christian faith for adults, following on from the insight into desire associated with René Girard. [for an introductory conversation about mimetic thought and Girard read this] 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

There are things only ministers know about being a minister.  They aren't all pretty & they can even lead you to leave the church and possibly the faith.  You get to hear 10 Dirty Secrets About Being a Minister with our guest and ex-pastor now a skeptic Greg Horton. Greg Horton was one of the inspirations behind starting the podcast.  I have stalked him online for a long time and then we got to have some fun in person on my visit to Oklahoma.  It was turned into this popular episode of the podcast.   Way back when 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. In this Episode Greg and I discuss his top ten list of things about being a minister you just don't know or understan

Peter Blum is the author of For a Church to Come: Experiments in Postmodern Theory and Anabaptist Thought. He chats with Callid for a conversation about how post-modern thought inform and interacts with the Christian tradition and the Quaker/Mennonite/Anabaptist persuasion.   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 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

With over 5 years of interviews under out belt - having gone from just friends listening to 50k - realizing that there are a ton of people who can't get the best interviews from the past - let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast.  I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio.  Let me know what you think of the idea.  If enough people want to early stuff I will make the series it's own stream and get the first 100 interviews out so newer Deacons can download them. The first coming out of Barrel Aging is Crossan's first visit to the podcast.  It was first released in April 2008 but the conversation is still packed full of Biblical Prophetic thunder in Crossan's awesome Irish accent.  If you enjoy the episode let us know & go pick up the book God & Empire in paperback. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg

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. 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

Jesuit Philosopher and Theologian Joseph Bracken is our guest this week on the podcast.  He recently retired from Xavier University & was honored with an amazing tribute - Seeking Common Ground - which includes articles from John Cobb, Catherine Keller, and more.  In this episode we take a tour through Bracken's influential career working toward common ground between religion & science, Aquinas & Whitehead, and Religious Pluralism.  I can't tell you how much I enjoy reading and talking with Father Joe.  Off the mic he is one of the most amazing nerds I have met & in conversation he has a quick & sensitive intellect. On top of all the nerdiness you even get to hear a little inside Jesuit scoop about the new Pope Francis I. Check out Bracken's previous visits to the podcast where we talk Trinity & Process and then my favorite - Christology!  I am sure you are headed to Amazon to get a Bracken book. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn m

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

Bo and I reunite their bromance in the Homebrewed Bat Cave after some summer vacationing. There were some brews, delicious cigars, HBC Deacon Shout Outs, & two very giggly theology nerds. We had plans to respond to a respond to a bunch of awesome Deacon sent questions...BUT the good Dr. Daniel Kirk got us distracted. Kirk recently blogged about a past episode of TNT “Nerd Out: Leaving Church, Packing Heat, and Metaphysical Violence” and had some pretty serious questions. In his post "Empire & Cross" where he asks: So, my lingering question for the metaphysics of the non-violent, non-coercive God is this: what do we make of the other parts of the story that make Jesus, and Jesus’ God, look like those forces of coercive power we otherwise see Jesus repudiating? Are those simply bad readings of the passages in question? Or, do we exercise a revisionist hermeneutic in light of [parts of] the Gospels? Bo and I attempted to respond. We definitely had fun...so much fun I ended up telling a story about explosiv

What happens when a Process theologian plants a church? How does relational theology impact the way you organize worship gatherings or church structures? Can there be a straight up real deal Process based church? In this final special episode from the Emergent Village theological conversation you hear practicing Process ministers with Phds. In this episode Bruce Epperly, Jeanyne Slettom, and Monica A. Coleman share about their Process theological wisdom as ministers who do ministry. There is discussion of preaching, worship, the arts, and pastoral care...then some Q/A on a variety of theological topics. Get ready for some fun and don't forget to check out the other episodes from the Emergent Village theological 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

If you love Rock & Roll, being nerdy, & sweet story telling then you shall enjoy this episode. Our guest Barry Taylor is not only a professor of Culture & Religion at Fuller Seminary, author of Entertainment Theology and an Episcopal Priest but more importantly this evening he was the sound engineer for Rock Legends AC/DC. You could say he has the inside track on the sacred and the profane. 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 is brought to you by the letter 'P'... Preaching, Power, Pannenberg, & Pastor Pops.  Bo and I finally got back together in person after I made it back from the Wild Goose Festival in North Carolina.  This is the result of our friendly nerding. In this episode we discuss..... * Bo's blog posts on Creeds, Miraculous Preaching, & Divine Action * Parental model of Providence * Monica Coleman's victory at Creatio Ex Nihilio * John Piper's Gnosticism * Pannenberg Moment from volume one of his Systematic Theology!!! 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