Homebrewed Christianity

This episode is amazing. It is just super-duper spectacular. Oh, it is also packed with awesome sauce. I can’t wait for all of you in helping professions to hear this and get yourself the book – Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age. Dr. Bruce Rogers-Vaughn is Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology… Read more about Bruce Rogers-Vaughn: the Neo-Liberal Attack on the Soul

Dr. Michael J. Murray is the President of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and former Arthur and Katherine Shadek Chair in Philosophy and the Humanities at Franklin & Marshall College and Senior Vice President of Programs at the John Templeton Foundation.

He received his BA from Franklin and Marshall and his MA and Ph.D from the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on two primary areas. The first is seventeenth century history of philosophy and theology, with a particular focus on the work of Gottfried Leibniz. The second is contemporary philosophy of religion. His most recent work focuses on the problem of evil and animal suffering, and cognitive and evolutionary accounts of the origin and persistence of religious belief and practice. In our wide-ranging conversation we discuss...

• fine-tuning
• gene-editing
• climate change
• the theological significance of science
• cognitive science of religion
• evolutionary psychology
• cultivating vocations in science among the church
• the origins of religion (thorough and clear description of the different options)
• revelation's relationship to history and religions
• situated knowledge and contextual for religious truth
• the historical Adam
• the pain and suffering within nature
• Extraterrestrial and Artificial Intelligence

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John D. Caputo is a hybrid philosopher/theologian who works in the area of radical theology. Prof. Caputo has spearheaded a notion he calls “weak theology,” by which he means a “poetics” of the “event” that is harbored in the name (of) God, or that “insists” in the name (of) “God,” a notion that depends upon a reworking of the notions of event in Derrida to theological ends.

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For a long time I have been a fan of John Haught’s work. He is a Catholic theologian, invested in the conversation between religion and science, who brings together two of my favorite thinkers – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead. His recent award winning book, The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe,… Read more about John Haught: the New Cosmic Story

For a long time I have been a fan of John Haught's work. He is a Catholic theologian, invested in the conversation between religion and science, who brings together two of my favorite thinkers - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead. His recent award winning book, The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe, Haught's mature theological voice is at work in a serious way. There he argues that an adequate understanding of cosmic history requires attention to the emergence of interiority, including religious aspiration.  We discuss that and a number of other topics in this conversation including...

• Big History and its inside story
• the relationship of religion and science
• Layered Explanations of reality and meaning
• 3-fold pattern of growth: Divergence, Convergence, and Emergence
• the cosmological literalism of the New Atheists - a modernist form of fundamentalism
• the narrative shape of the cosmos
• Teilhard, Lonergan, Whitehead, Polyani
• the nature of religion in the evolution of homo sapiens
• ethical predicaments from the ecological crisis to abortion
• the role of beauty in the cosmos
• His article, Trashing Teilhard: How Not to Read a Great Religious Thinker

John F. Haught is Senior Fellow, Science & Religion, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University. He was formerly Professor in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University (1970-2005) and Chair (1990-95). His area of specialization is systematic theology, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to science, cosmology, evolution, ecology, and religion.

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I am pumped to share this episode with you. For a long time I have enjoyed the work of biologist Kenneth R. Miller and over the course of this conversation we cover a number of topics which include...

• How the poetry of Thomas Merton help bring Ken back to faith
• His role in the debates between Creation Science, Intelligence Design, and Evolution
• "if Augustine and Aquinas were around today, they would be evolutionists"
• on the craft of being a baseball umpire
• the nature of Biblical truth and scientific discovery
• stories from the legal battles over Intelligent Design
• the overwhelming evidence for a common ancestor
• how humans are unique among the natural world
• the failure of Sam Harris' argument on free will
• a sweet E.O. Wilson story on free will and its necessity for science
• his friendship and disagreement with Stephen Jay Gould about NOMA
• Ken's theory of mind and consciousness
• he argues against Nagel about the nature of consciousness

we discuss emergence via complexity

Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology. He did his undergraduate work at Brown, and earned a Ph D in 1974 at the University of Colorado. He spent six years as Assistant Professor at Harvard University before returning to Brown University in 1980. His research work on cell membrane structure and function has produced more than 60 scientific papers and reviews in leading journals, including CELL, Nature, and Scientific American.

You should definitely follow him on twitter and check out his visit to the Colbert Report.

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The dynamic duo of dialectical theology - David Congdon & Travis McMaken - are on the podcast. These two scholars, friends, and theological provocateurs are here to bring you some dialectical theology.   This conversation was recorded in their hotel room at the American Academy of Religion. Their room may or may not have had a bunch of crystals surrounding a giant collection of analytic theology texts.   Travis was on the podcast in the past talking about Why God loves Justice and Why Go Barthian?.   David joined the podcast to talk Bultmann’s Mission of Demythologizing.   If you are inspired you should go join the Society for Dialectical Theology In this podcast we discuss.... - the day David convinced Travis the bodily resurrection wasn't necessary - dialectical theology's relationship to theological tradition - what does the term "event" mean for DT? - humans are messed up and are not the solution of our problem - the kenosis of the patriarchy - theology for the religiously unaffiliated - sadly Travis has no inner-life - how Badiou should relate to Theology... a theology of the trace - what makes an event christian - the contrast between dialectical theology and salvation history - tripp gets upset about theology without existential register - David is not happy about St. Andrews, analytical theology, or NT Wright's historical confidence - analytical investigations of Kierkegaard aren't cool - doing historical investigations doesn't lead to the existential encounter of faith - the need to embrace the secularity of faith   Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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Reza Aslan is back on the podcast with the release of God: A Human History in paperback. Reza Aslan is a best-selling author (Zealot, No god But God), commentator, professor, and producer for The Leftovers (HBO), Of Kings and Prophets (ABC), Rough Draft (Ovation), and Believer (CNN). In our conversation we discuss a bunch of topics… the birth… Read more about Reza Aslan: the birth of god, the problem of identity, and Pete Buttigieg

Reza Aslan is back on the podcast with the release of God: A Human History in paperback. Reza Aslan is a best-selling author (Zealot, No god But God), commentator, professor, and producer for The Leftovers (HBO), Of Kings and Prophets (ABC), Rough Draft (Ovation), and Believer (CNN). In our conversation we discuss a bunch of topics...

• the birth of God in human history
• cognitive science of religion
• evolutionary account of religion
• Reza resists scientific reductionism
• what comes first, myth or rituals?
• what is going on in religion?
• why religion is not primarily about beliefs, but identity
• the ignorance of ignoring religion
• a prophetic voice in a multi-traditioned culture
• Reza's enthusiastic endorsement of Pete Buttigieg for President

why Donald Trump is personified evil

a minister who will not stand against racism is failing

parenting in a multi-faith family

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Earlier this week we were joined by A. Ron from the Bald Move podcast. His co-author for Gods of Thrones and historical Jesus scholar, Dr. Anthony Le Donne, is on the podcast talking comparative religion in the Game of Thrones. We have too much fun and get to a bunch of topics...

• Game of Thrones as a secular apocalypse narrative
• GOT and LOTR (Lord of the Rings)

eucatastrophe in LOTR

the end of ethical theories

how Martin sees the nature of religion

the influence of Catholicism and Roman religion

the cultural phenomenon of GOT and its growing tribe

anxiety, agency, and our global crises

White Walkers and the Ecological Crisis

blood and incest

introduction to comparative religion in Westeros

why fan theory is awesome

from canonical texts to post-canonical TV

how GOT tackles changing norms

the historical Jesus had warts

GOT and the emergence of a promo-democracy

how to finish the books if Martin can't

an aside on the politics of historical Jesus research

Anthony Le Donne is Assistant Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. He is the author/editor of seven books and serves as an editor of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus.

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