Homebrewed Christianity

Has Trump become a Process theologian?

What doctrine from church history would you get rid of?

How does Open and Relational thought frame how you handle strong disagreement?

These are a few of the questions Thomas Jay Oord and I answered in a pretty fun live stream.

Tom's new book  God Can't Q&A is now available and if you want a taste HERE is a sample. Enjoy

We are both evangelists for Open and Relational Theology and now that it has a center you should check it out. Tom mentioned the launch of a new doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology. You can check it out here.

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord is an award-winning author, and he has written or edited more than twenty books. A twelve-time Faculty Award winning professor, Oord teaches at institutions around the globe. A gifted speaker, Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, and the implications of freedom and relationships for transformation.

Here's the Book Recommendations

• Keith Ward's Sharing in the Divine Nature: A Personalist Metaphysic

James Cone's For My People

William Temple's Nature, Man, and God

Kathryn Yusoff, a Billion Black Anthropocenes or None

Andre Rabe, Creative Chaos: The Surprising Mystery of Time, Self, and Meaning

PLUS Tom mentioned reading my next book. 

Previous Visits of Tom to the Podcast Thomas Jay Oord wants you to know “God Can’t” Open and Relational Q&A with Thomas Jay Oord Why Go Wesleyan? with Thomas Jay Oord Evil, Providence and the Love of God with Tom Oord Thomas Jay Oord really loves talking about Love [Barrel Aged] Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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In this episode you get to hear the story of historian, Episcopalian gone Rev., the nature of comparative theology, and the glories of weird Anglican twitter. Very happy to introduce you all to Dan and let you in on a fun conversation.

The Rev. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, PhD, is the Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History at the Seminary of the Southwest. His teaching focuses on integrating Anglican and Episcopal identity with the broader sweep of Christian history and Jewish-Christian relations. His research interests include Anglican and Episcopal history, Jewish-Christian relations ancient and modern, the development of Anglican ecclesiology, and comparative theology. He is the author of The More Torah, The More Light: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot and Christian Memories of the Maccabean Martyrs and has authored chapters in various edited volumes and articles in Anglican Theological Review and Anglican and Episcopal History. Professor Joslyn-Siemiatkoski is a representative for The Episcopal Church in the Anglican-Roman Catholic U.S.A. dialogue group and a member of the board of trustees for the Episcopal Evangelism Society and the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. He serves as an assisting priest at St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin.

 

This Episode is Sponsored by the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.

The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was organized in 1910 to promote the preservation of the particular heritage of the Episcopal Church and its antecedents. Since 1932 it’s published a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal with original research, book reviews and church reviews. The Society works in cooperation with other organizations to publishing a newsletter of articles and information for the person in the pews. The Society leads the planning of a historically themed conference every three years.

If you have any interest in religious history, you’ll want to check out the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.

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I had an inappropriate amount of fun talking with Dr. Fiona Ellis in this episode. If your inner-nerd doesn't get pumped by the end, then it is hibernating. There's a high likelihood you will end up getting her book God, Value, and Nature. 

Plus my son Elgin (12) joins for the intro and while he wasn't impressed by 3.5 million downloads of the podcast last year, he is thrilled I now have 1,000 YouTube subscribers.

In this episode we discuss...

• the space between reductive naturalism and supernaturalism
• expansive naturalism
• the relationship between science, philosophy, and religion
• prejudice against religion and value in the academy
• Iris Murdoch's platonic idealism
• the relationship of transcendence and immanence
• how the question of value is connected to religion

Honest to God by John AT Robinson

Paul Tillich's ecstatic naturalism

why Spinoza is a theistic expansive naturalist

expanding naturalism on behalf of affirming our humanity

argument for the existence of God from desire

Sartre, Levinas, Nietzche & the lack

the generative nature of the lack

Fiona likes to teach Schopenhauer's the world as will and representation....Berkeley, Spinoza

The cultural universality of love in contrast to God

Divine action in expansive naturalism

Dr. Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at University of Roehampton and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion. She worked at Heythrop College for 12 years, and has been Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion since 2010. Before Heythrop she had lectureships at Wadham College, Oxford, and Queen's College, Oxford, and did her graduate work (BPhil and DPhil) at Oxford University under the supervision of Professor David Wiggins and Professor Paul Snowdon. Her research interests are in philosophy of religion (broadly construed), the relation between philosophy and theology, philosophical idealism, naturalism, the philosophy of love and desire, and the meaning of life.

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Dr. Adam Clark is here as we kick off the Black Theology Reading Group. This episode is not just a description and invitation to join the reading but, an outline of the centering questions of the class. If you don't want to miss out on some amazing reading, lectures, conversation, and community then join up now.

Dr. Adam Clark is 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. Adam Clark is here as we kick off the Black Theology Reading Group. This episode is not just a description and

invitation to join the reading but, an outline of the centering questions of the class. If you don’t want to miss out on some amazing reading, lectures, conversation, and community then join up now.

 

Dr. Adam Clark is 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.

 

Are you ready for a super fun and nerdy podcast?

Dr. Stanely has been an important thinker for my current research project. His book on renowned Quaker physicist Arthur Eddington was one I kept on telling friends about. When his new book Einstein's War came out I knew it would make for a good reason to have him on the podcast. My high expectations for the conversation were not just met but exceeded. As a historian of science who works in the conversation between religion and science, there were a bunch of different topics that came up we both love talking about. Hopefully this will not be his last visit on the podcast. In the conversation we discuss:

• how bad the conflict model of religion and science is
• the life of Arthur Eddington
• is Buddhism a religion?
• the emergence of scientific naturalism and why it isn't necessary
• the relationship of Einstein and Eddington
• how Einstein changed the scientific picture of the world
• how scientists got arrested for being spies
• the connection between physics, pacifism, and internationalism
• why Einstein's War should be a movie
• the limits and nature of science
• shout out to how the hippies saved physics

the nature of truth within cultural/religious traditions

PS: Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I, just came out in paperback. As you will hear in the interview, it is too good to miss.

Matthew Stanley is professor of the history of science at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He has published two academic books and has written for Physics Today, Physics World and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has a podcast, What the If?!?, and has appeared on documentaries on the History Channel, BBC and NPR.

Check Out his books! Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I,  Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington, and Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science.

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Are you ready for a super fun and nerdy podcast?

Dr. Stanely has been an important thinker for my current research project. His book on renowned Quaker physicist Arthur Eddington was one I kept on telling friends about. When his new book Einstein’s War came out I knew it would make for a good reason to have him on the podcast. My high expectations for the conversation were not just met but exceeded. As a historian of science who works in the conversation between religion and science, there were a bunch of different topics that came up we both love talking about. Hopefully this will not be his last visit on the podcast. In the conversation we discuss:

* how bad the conflict model of religion and science is

* the life of Arthur Eddington

* is Buddhism a religion?

* the emergence of scientific naturalism and why it isn’t necessary

* the relationship of Einstein and Eddington

* how Einstein changed the scientific picture of the world

* how scientists got arrested for being spies

* the connection between physics, pacifism, and internationalism

* why Einstein’s War should be a movie

* the limits and nature of science

* shout out to how the hippies saved physics

* the nature of truth within cultural/religious traditions

PS: Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I, just came out in paperback. As you will hear in the interview, it is too good to miss.

Matthew Stanley is professor of the history of science at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. He has published two academic books and has written for Physics Today, Physics World and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He has a podcast, What the If?!?, and has appeared on documentaries on the History Channel, BBC and NPR.

Check Out his books!

Einstein’s War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I,  Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A. S. Eddington, and Huxley’s Church and Maxwell’s Demon: From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science.

This August we kick off the next Homebrewed reading group on James Cone and Black Theology. We will be joined by our lead theological facilitator, Dr. Adam Clark, Associate Professor of Theology at Xavier University.

In this episode Adam and I discuss (the Father of Black Theology) James Cone, Black theology, and the present moment.

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When people ask me about my favorite authors they aren't surprised to hear me say Alfred North Whitehead, Elizabeth Johnson, or Origen, but when I say Jason Aaron I get a look of confusion. Then I explain how much I love comics and that Jason Aaron is my absolute favorite author. When I found out that I might be able to get him on the podcast with my bestie Will Rose, we went a bit crazy with glee. (For the theology nerd, Jason Aaron is like the Moltmann of comics!)

Our goal was to lure you into checking out the wonderful world of comics. We talk about Jason's personal story, the craft of story telling, hermeneutics, wrestling with life's big questions, sons with daddy issues, the problem of evil, and a bunch of comics. Did I mention Marvel is going to be following Jason's lead and make Jane Foster Thor in the next film Love & Thunder.

JASON AARON is an award-winning comic book writer best known for his work with Marvel Comics, including a landmark seven-year run on THOR that will serve as the basis for the upcoming Marvel Studios film THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER. He’s also had celebrated stints writing WOLVERINE, DOCTOR STRANGE, GHOST RIDER, PUNISHER and the 2015 Marvel relaunch of STAR WARS that was the best-selling American comic book in more than 20 years. Aaron is the current writer on Marvel's flagship AVENGERS series and the recently relaunched CONAN THE BARBARIAN. His critically acclaimed creator-owned work includes the Eisner and Harvey Award-winning SOUTHERN BASTARDS from Image Comics and the New York Times best-selling crime series SCALPED from Vertigo Comics. Aaron was born and raised in Alabama and currently resides in Kansas City.

You can follow Jason's work here on his personal webpage/newsletter and on social media (twitter/instagram)

New to comics? The best move (lockdown willing) is to find a local comic book store. In the meantime you can check out Jason's stuff digitally through Amazon. If you are smart you will use the free 60 day trial of ComiXology or try out Marvel Unlimited and turn your iPad or computer into Jason Aaron gateway. For Jason's independent releases you can go to his store. Here's a guide to reading Jason's Thor run.

WILL ROSE is a Lutheran pastor at the Holy Trinity in Chapel Hill and guru of all things pop culture. He has returned to the podcast for the interview. You can check out some of his writing at the Pop Culture and Theology. He is also a part of a new web series Theocon Thursdays that you should check out. For real... the session on zombies is zesty.

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Dr. Stephen Haynes is the Albert Bruce Curry Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College and theologian-in-residence at Idlewild Presbyterian Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

He joined the Rise of Bonhoeffer reading group and we decided it best to share with you. Enjoy!

The figure of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) has become a clay puppet in modern American politics. Secular, radical, liberal, and evangelical interpreters variously shape and mold the martyr’s legacy to suit their own pet agendas.

Stephen Haynes offers an incisive and clarifying perspective. A recognized Bonhoeffer expert, Haynes examines “populist” readings of Bonhoeffer, including the acclaimed biography by Eric Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. In his analysis Haynes treats, among other things, the November 2016 election of Donald Trump and the “Bonhoeffer moment” announced by evangelicals in response to the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage.

The Battle for Bonhoeffer includes an open letter from Haynes pointedly addressing Christians who still support Trump. Bonhoeffer’s legacy matters. Haynes redeems the life and the man.

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