Homebrewed Christianity

What does it mean to take one’s faith seriously during an ecological collapse? How can ministers lead faith communities when so many justice issues are polarizing? These important questions and more shape this conversation with two returning guests to the podcast – Leah Schade & Wilson Dickinson. Both are faculty at Lexington Theological Seminary where there is a deep investment in these tasks and the cultivation of a more vibrant online education.

Dr. Leah Schade is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary, A graduate of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, her research and experience cover the fields of homiletics and ecological theology. As an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), Schade has served in suburban, urban, and rural settings and has worked with parishioners from a variety of cultural, racial, and economic backgrounds. Formerly the pastor of United in Christ Lutheran Church in Lewisburg, PA, Schade s ministry is marked by her experience in and passion for ecological and social justice advocacy and activism.

Dr. Schade’s Books

Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide

Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis

Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit

Dr. Wilson Dickinson is a writer, pastor, and organizer who lives in his hometown of Georgetown, Kentucky. He teaches theology and directs the Doctor of Ministry and Continuing Education Programs at Lexington Theological Seminary. He is the director of the Green Good News, an organization that works with churches and schools to integrate sustainability, justice, and discipleship.

Check out Wilson’s books The Green Good News and Exercises in New Creation.

PREVIOUS PODCAST VISITS Leah Schade: Preaching in a time of Crisis from Corona to Climate Wilson Dickinson: Faith After a Neo-liberal Compliant Church Don’t forget to join Tripp & Diana this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here.  Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community.

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Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is a Jesuit priest and an assistant professor of theology at Marquette University. His locates his work the intersection of philosophy and systematic theology and is interested in regarding theology as practice or "way of life." He has published on Karl Rahner, Jean-Luc Marion, René Girard, and his most recent work has involved a sustained engagement with William Desmond’s metaphysics. His monograph “Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God" argues that, when read as a form of spiritual exercise (Pierre Hadot), Desmond’s philosophy can re-awaken a sense of the Transcendent.

In the conversation we discuss...

• the possibility of a return to Narnia
• problems with cranky Thomism
• what is happening in the cultural fascination with Zombies
• 5 Commandments for doing Metaphysics... after the death of Metaphysics
• Want to read a summary of the book and see some stellar scholars engage it? Head over here to the Syndicate consortium.
• Sacramental hermenutics
• how spiritual formation is like karaoke & why you don't have to be Bob Dylan
• there's a little bit of Susan Boyle in each of us

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My friend and brilliant theologian, Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim, is back on the podcast and we have a stimulating conversation about her newest book Invisible: Theology and the Experience of Asian American Women.

Check out my visit to Grace's podcast -Here's the audio & here's Mandang on YoutTube:)

Grace Ji-Sun Kim is Professor of Theology at Earlham School of Religion. She received her M.Div. from Knox College and her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is the author or editor of 19 books most recently, Keeping Hope Alive; Intersectional Theology co-written with Susan Shaw and Embracing the Other. Kim is a Series Editor for Palgrave Macmillan Series, “Asian Christianity in the Diaspora”. Eerdmans included her in their list of Five Great Women Scholars, and the Englewood Review of Books named her in their list of Ten Important Women Theologians You Should Be Reading

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John Cobb, the greatest living theologian, returns to the podcast for a birthday pod. What an honor, treat, and thrill! I hope you all enjoy this one half as much as I did :)

Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr. taught theology at the Claremont School of Theology from 1958 to 1990. In 2014 he became the first theologian elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his interdisciplinary work in ecology, economics, and biology.

Books by Cobb that come up in the episode

• Salvation: Jesus's Mission and Ours

• Christ in a Pluralistic Age

• Process Theology

• Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Ecological Catastrophe

• A Christian Natural Theology, Second Edition: Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead

• God and the World

• Jesus Abba: The God Who Has Not Failed

• Romans

• Is It Too Late?: A Theology of Ecology

• Theological Reminiscences

• Spiritual Bankruptcy: A Prophetic Call to Action

• Sustaining the Common Good: A Christian Perspective on the Global Economy

• For The Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

 

Previous Visits from John Cobb

• John Cobb: Secularizing Christianity

• John Cobb: Christology and Process Theology

• JC on JC: a conversation with John Cobb and Tom Oord on Jesus #BarrelAged

• A SPECIAL INVITATION from John Cobb: Why Whitehead?

• John Cobb goes to #TheologyBeerCamp

• Tag-Team Preaching with John Cobb @TheLoft_LA

• LIVE from Vancouver with Sallie McFague and John Cobb

• How Modern Metaphysics Killed God with John Cobb #FANiac

• Have Yourself a John Cobb Advent! #FANiac

• #FANiac Alert… Why Metaphysics Matters with John Cobb

• Fully Human, Fully Divine, & All Process! Christology with John Cobb

• Prayer & Process with John Cobb

• Theology for the People: Keller, Cobb and God

 

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Last night Adam and I had a live stream session for the Upsetting the Powers online reading group. After an hour or so of digging into the readings from Womanist theologian Delores Williams, we took some questions from the group and it was too timely not to share. If you want to access the entire class head over here and join up.

At the end of the episode, you get a special invite to join Jesus De/Constructed with Diana Butler Bass and me. :)

Dr. Adam Clark is an Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University. He is committed to the idea that theological education in the twenty-first century must function as a counter-story. One that equips us to read against the grain of the dominant culture and inspires one to live into the Ignatian dictum of going forth “to set the world on fire.” To this end, Dr. Clark is intentional about pedagogical practices that raise critical consciousness by going beneath surface meanings, unmasking conventional wisdoms and reimagining the good. He currently serves as co-chair of Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion, actively publishes in the area of black theology and black religion and participates in social justice groups at Xavier and in the Cincinnati area. He earned his PhD at Union Theological Seminary in New York where he was mentored by James Cone.

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Dr. Andrew Schwartz is a scholar, organizer, and social entrepreneur. He is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies and Assistant Professor of Process Studies & Comparative Theology with Claremont School of Theology at Willamette University, as well as Co-Founder and Vice President of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. He is Affiliated Faculty with the Center for Sustainability and Environmental Justice at Willamette University. His current work includes comparative religious philosophy, as well as the role of big ideas in bringing about systems change for the long-term wellbeing of people and the planet the Executive

In this conversation we discus a bunch of questions sent in from the Homebrewed Community...

1. Books Andrew likes to use when teaching Process

Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead & Process Theology: A Basic Introduction by Robert C. Mesle

On Whitehead by Philip Rose

God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

2. How Whitehead came to believe in God

3. Why Process Panentheism is the superior Panentheism

• shout out to Hartshorne's Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes

why Creation Out of Nothing is the most overrated doctrine

4. Process Panenthesim & Panpsychism

here's the book exploring this theme and it is FREE :)

5. Why is Process thought reaching more people now than ever?

6. If you had a dinner party with Whitehead, who are you inviting?

• Want to go to a dinner party at the Whitehead's? Then read Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead.

 

Some Previous Process Theology Episodes

• Godehard Brüntrup: Emergent Panpsychism & Process Theology
• John Cobb: Christology and Process Theology
• Jewish Process Theology w/ Rabbi Brad Artson
• Emergence, Panenthesim, Science & Process Theology with Joseph Bracken S.J.
• Monica A. Coleman: Process Womanist Theology
• 5 Reasons to Go Process w/ Monica Coleman
• Helene Russell: Trauma Sensitive Theology
• Trump is (NOT) a Process Theologian & Other Questions w/ Thomas Jay Oord
• Susan Shaw: the story of a Process Southern Baptist Feminist
• Can a process theologian be an Evangelical & other questions with Philip Clayton
• #TeamProcess vs. #TeamOpenTheism – Live from St. Paul
• A Process Spirit Christology with Joseph Bracken #BarrelAged
• Sallie McFague on Loving God and the World: in Memoriam
• John Thatamanil on Non-duality, Polydoxy, and Christian Identity
• Robert Mesle intro to Whitehead
• Catherine Keller on Process, Poetry, & Post-Structuralism
• The Problem of Evil & Suffering w/ Robert Mesle

 

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Dr. Jacob Alan Cook investigates how people move from an ideas-based sense of security about who they are and what they are doing in the world toward a more vibrant, relational posture of faith. He is actively studying and experimenting with creative practices for Christian moral formation in both the academy and local church-communities.

Cook’s first book, Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith, is out now along with a series of articles on Baptist News Global introducing its hypothesis. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, where he leads a research program centered on formative practices and the big question: What does it look like when churches and their people thrive as agents of justice, reconciliation, and compassion in their local communities?

Check out Jacob's powerful series of articles based on the book

• Was Adam and Eve’s ‘worldview’ the original sin?
• Who needs the church when we have the biblical worldview?
• Why your worldview might be both more and less than biblical
• Putting the white in witness since the 1940s
• A short history of the roots of colonialism, racism and whiteness in ‘Christian worldview’
• What if your ‘Christian worldview’ is based on some sinful ideas?
• Plan to Get Punched in the Mouth

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Dr. Jacob Alan Cook investigates how people move from an ideas-based sense of security about who they are and what they are doing in the world toward a more vibrant, relational posture of faith. He is actively studying and experimenting with creative practices for Christian moral formation in both the academy and local church-communities.

Cook’s first book, Worldview Theory, Whiteness, and the Future of Evangelical Faith, is out now along with a series of articles on Baptist News Global introducing its hypothesis. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, where he leads a research program centered on formative practices and the big question: What does it look like when churches and their people thrive as agents of justice, reconciliation, and compassion in their local communities?

Check out Jacob’s powerful series of articles based on the book

* Was Adam and Eve’s ‘worldview’ the original sin?

* Who needs the church when we have the biblical worldview?

* Why your worldview might be both more and less than biblical

* Putting the white in witness since the 1940s

* A short history of the roots of colonialism, racism and whiteness in ‘Christian worldview’

* What if your ‘Christian worldview’ is based on some sinful ideas?

* Plan to Get Punched in the Mouth

Don’t forget to join us both this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here.

 

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This is a celebration podcast! My friend Dr. Bethany Sollereder just landed a new job as Lecturer in Science and Religion here at the University of Edinburgh. After a celebration we discuss Bethany's newest choose-your-own-adventure style book on the problem of suffering. Then we shift directions to discuss the future of Science and Religion as a field, our coming ecological collapse, and a little Tolkien:)

Here’s two of Bethany’s Books to checkout

• God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall 

Why Is There Suffering?: Pick Your Own Theological Expedition

Check out Bethany's previous visit to the podcast - Theology and the Ecological Crisis

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My friend and scholar of American Religion, Diana Butler Bass, is on the podcast for a little experiment. We plan to host monthly conversations about religion, politics, and culture from a progressive Christian perspective. We would love your input on the flow, format, and such - so holla :)

We plan to have live stream sessions each month with our online communities. To be a part of future zoom sessions like this one, make sure you join Diana's newsletter community, the Cottage. Yes, she does have an actual cottage where she reads, writes, and zooms

 

 Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp 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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