What happens when a progressive Christian historian and theologian talk about everything you aren’t supposed to discuss at dinner? Let’s find out:)

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Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality.

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Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp

• The Christology Ladder
• The Indictment Edition of Ruining Dinner
• American Saints in a Cynical Age
• Ruining Dinner… and Date Nights
• Welcome to the Post-Christian Century
• Ruining Christmas Dinner
• Ruining Election Night Dinner
• 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

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Here are a few episodes with a couple of their Profs

• Leah Schade & Wilson Dickinson: Faith During an Ecological Collapse
• Leah Schade: Preaching in a time of Crisis from Corona to Climate
• Wilson Dickinson: Faith After a Neo-liberal Compliant Church

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