After a bit of a hiatus, Crackers & Grape Juice is back. What began 10 years ago as conversations between friends promises to give listeners conversations about faith without using stained glass language. And, if we have to use stained glass language (because stained glass language isn’t inherently bad), we’ll be sure to unpack it bit.

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Years ago, Brian Zahnd was our first guest as we learned how to podcast in realtime. Brian has been a guest numerous times and he is back to discuss his newest book, Unseen Existences: Of Heaven, Earth, and the Divine Mystery in All Things.

Most Christians have been talked out of talking seriously about heaven. And that’s a problem. What if reclaiming our language around unseen realities could transform how we live, pray, and imagine eternity? Brian Zahnd helps readers (and listeners to this podcast) understand how a forgotten biblical worldview about heaven and transcendence can reconnect us to the divine mystery that underpins all of life.

Brian underscores the dangers of reduced, irresponsible ideas of heaven (whether escapist, sensationalist, or sentimental) and offers a compelling call to restore a robust, honest conversation about the unseen world.

As promised, here is a link to Brian's conclusion that was cut by his publisher: https://open.substack.com/pub/brianzahnd/p/the-reverend-3d7.

Late in the episode Teer asked Brian to give him a few songs that would be the starter for an Unseen Existences playlist. Brian did one better and gave us an entire playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3boJl0J6p6NEUqMB3bZ6Ir

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