Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

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

Today the Emergent Village Theological Conversation on Process Theology comes to you! This is audio from Session Five where we Process Theology meets liberation theologies! Monica A. Coleman is Assc. Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology and is your guide into theological awesomeness! Monica has been on the podcast in the past introducing Process Theology, answering questions from the Emergent Village, Debating Creation out of Nothing, and Religious Pluralism. She is the author of Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Innovations: African American Religious Thought), The Dinah Project: A Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence, and a contributor to the new Creating Women’s Theology: A Movement Engaging Process Thought. There are a couple videos from the EVTC from Monica. She discusses Life After Death & Creative Transformation. Check them out and share them! Y ou can follow her blog and all the other media projects

What happens when Homebrewed Christianity throws a party for the best book of the year? You don't have to guess, ya just gotta listen! Be prepared for metaphysics, skepticism, atheism, Christology, religious experience, doubt, the death of God, Process thought, and all the theological hype money can buy! This week you get to visit the home of Philip Clayton where a bunch of theology nerds packed in and more streaming online while we celebrated the launch of Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp's book The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith. Philip has been on the podcast before live with Caputo, talking Jesus from the Emergent Village Theological Conversation, debating Creation, and 3-Ding at the American Academy of Religion.  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

John Cobb is back in action with this special bonus track. It's a follow up to his recent call to secularize Christianity.  Lisa Domke and Scott Jones serve as our brilliant ministerial conversation partners. Scott was on the podcast a long time ago...episode 7 & episode 16. In the conversation they discuss Progressive Christians Uniting, liberals failure to do theology, Wes Jackson at the Land Institute , faith and activism, economism, the ecological crisis, agriculture, food, and higher education. John Cobb has been on the podcast a number of times; Prayer and Process, and the special 101st episode, earth day, and Incarnation-cast. Cobb will answer your questions. Want more Process theology? Check out my video bibliography 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

Bo and I were invited to the United Church of Christ Annual Gathering to rock the Theology Nerd Throwdown.  We were joined by Erin Wyma, Thea Mateu, Mary Sue Brookshire, and Dave Palmer. Best of all they secured us a space at the Alcatraz Brewing Company for the late night theology party. There were about 40 UCCers and local HBC Deacons in attendance and then an Orange County brewery that packed full of people who had this conversation show up on there Friday night out.   We must give a big shout out to Deacon Billy Steele for coming all the way from North Carolina to be there in the flesh! In our conversation we discussed Obama's kill list, women in ministry, the growth of progressive churches, gay and polygamous marriage, partisan divisions, and prophetic preaching among other topics.  You will notice that these UCCers go silent like MSNBC when I give President Obama a hard time but after that they were rather open.  A couple of the Deacons in attendance said afterwards "this is what liberal Christians so

The one great world religion is killing the planet on the backs of the poor.  Will the church let this death-dealing faith, economism, win?  John Cobb is here to challenge the church with a progressive missiology.  One in which the church is called to join God in working for the salvation of the world.  What do we gotta do?  We need to combat religiosity and secularism by secularizing Christianity! This is the first part of session four from the emergent village theological conversation.  John's first appearance was posted here and here where he discusses Christology and the Common Wealth of God. John Cobb has been on the podcast a number of times; Prayer and Process, and the special 101st episode, earth day, and Incarnation-cast. Cobb will answer your questions. Want more Process theology? Check out my video bibliography 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

Martin Sanders is the head of Global Leadership, runs the D.Min for Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, NY ... and most importantly, he is Bo's Dad. That's right! Its the BoDaddy's Daddy (as Tripp says). Among Dr. Sanders' works are The Power of Mentoring and The Family You've Always Wanted. The Power of Mentoring has been reworking and released in French. Global Leadership is in 37 countries and has been involved in leadership development on every continent. 35 years in ministry, including 25 as a Seminary Professor, provided Bo and Tripp with plenty of material to ask questions: Leadership, Mega-Churches, International, Regional, Generational, Denominational and Historical.     35 years in ministry, including 25 as a Seminary Professor, provided Bo and Tripp with plenty of material to ask questions:  Leadership, Mega-Churches, International, Regional, Generational, Denominational and Historical. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn

Deacons I am thrilled to let you all in to a live HBC house-show & yard party with your favorite British PoMo theological and cultural super star Barry Taylor (check him on the podcast, with Peter Rollins on the Apostle Paul and at Theology After Google). The show is almost an hour and a half of interactive theology, inappropriate religious jokes, guitar strumming, Pop Culture commentary, & curse word Bingo (Barry will explain…I hear lay people at his church invented it).  If you can't imagine course language and thick sarcasm being use for something fruitful then please don't listen.  Pete Rollins may have his Pyro-theology but we got Profane Theology.  This was recorded September 30, 2011. We discuss Scot McKnight's King Jesus Gospel, Peter Rollins, Mark Driscoll's Thug Jesus excitement, reality TV (and Christianity), Phyllis Tickle, Mel Gibson's love of the Jewish people, the Passion of the Christ, Rob Bell, Love Wins, Rick Warren, Shane Hipps, techno-noise, AC/DC, the Star Wars religion, changing reli

Theology Nerds Get READY to Throw Down!  This week Bo and I have a blast nerding out with abandon. During the episode we enjoyed the Art of Darkness & some Rocky Patel cigars. This episode is hockey style, coming in three periods. 1. The Crazy Gay-Hating Minister, Same-Sex Marriage, and Church\State battles.  This conversation kicked off with the rumble Rev. Charles L. Worley stirred up with his hate speech & Bo's big question post 'Is This Even Christianity?' Check out the podcast I recorded with fellow UCC minister Erin on homosexuality and the church. 2. Generational Hating and Radical Orthodoxy frustrations. Deacon Andrew Tatum wrote an amazing blog post 'Generational Blackmail or Tepid Pseudo Spirituality?' in response to a less-than awesome post (but generative question) by James K.A. Smith.  Since we recorded the question Barry Taylor joined in the conversation with style.  Oh and many thanks to Sarah for calling in. 3. Creation Out of Nothing, Moltmann & Process thought! In this section we di

Get ready for a theological treasure chest! Here you get not one or even two theologians but SIX theologians ready to throw down theologically over Creation Out of Nothing. The audio was harvested from the Open and Relational Theologies group at the American Academy of Religion of which I am a very proud member! This episode will include the panelists arguments for or against Creatio Ex Nihilioand later this weekend we will post the Question & Response portion of the session. The initial panel includes: Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology view/download paper Monica A. Coleman, Claremont School of Theology view/download paper Catherine Keller, Drew University view/download paper Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University view/download paper Richard Rice, Loma Linda University view/download paper Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University In the past week Tony Jones picked a little fight over Creation Out of Nothing by quote bombing me with Moltmann, I responded and Tony retorted

Is all that substance based, Aristotelian flavored, authoritarian Creedal style Christology getting you down? Do you wish talking about God at work in Jesus didn't require you to yell mystery and paradox all day while avoiding good questions?  Do you want to know what it's like to hear one of the two greatest theologians in the last 110 years?  YES?  Then get ready for John Cobb! This is straight up, real deal, John Cobb at his best.  John has written one of the best Christologies, Christ in a Pluralistic Age, and is here to unpack a bit of it for you. Deacon Dan, thanks for the call.  Here's John Cobb talking about Process and Prayer & here's the Theology Nerd Throwdown episode on prayer. Don't forget to check out the first session from the Emergent Village Theological Conversation here and the Question & Answer session that followed this podcast. John Cobb has been on the podcast a number of times; Prayer and Process, and the special 101st episode, earth day, and Incarnation-cast. Tom Oord visit

It's time for session Two of the Emergent Village Theological Conversation on Process Theology!  You get not only one but two big deal theologians! Tom Oord and John Cobb are on the podcast and they are talking Jesus, Christology, the kingdom commonwealth of the God, incarnation, Creeds, and religious pluralism. Don't forget to check out the first session from the Emergent Village Theological Conversation here. John Cobb has been on the podcast a number of times; Prayer and Process, and the special 101st episode, earth day, and Incarnation-cast.  Tom Oord visited on two previous occasions; The Open-Relational Gospel and the Science of Love! Want more Process theology?  Check out my video bibliography here! Tom Oord is a sweet blogger.  Cobb will answer your questions. 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