Homebrewed Christianity

Tripp and activist theologian Robyn Henderson-Espinoza are getting ready for Wild Goose Festival, and #TheologyBeerCamp and luring your to come to both in this episode. Click here to learn more about the Justice camp pre-event for Wild Goose that Robyn is hosting.

In this episode, Robyn shares their take on the Wild Goose Festival, some updates about the Activist Theology book a preview on what they've been writing, the heresy of slaveholder Christianity, and re-imagining the prophetic norm for Christianity.

How do we live in those Holy Saturday moments of hopelessness and despair, not knowing if the Resurrection is coming? Where do we locate God when we talk about God? How do we understand evil and salvation in light of events like Charlottesville?

Plus, Robyn answers your questions about activist theology:

• how can we speak of God in our contemporary context without being associated with the oppressors?
• what do I do with the colorblind model of discipleship I've been handed?
• how do you learn how to have conversations where a different world is possible?

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Jen Hatmaker - blogger, speaker, author, and Austin church planter - is on the podcast as part of our Wild Goose Festival preview.

In this episode, you'll hear about Jen's experience of faith growing up conservative, becoming more progressive, being an LGBTQ advocate, becoming a parent and not wanting to pass on a version of faith that is problematic, and what it was like to figure this out in public.

What does good friendship look like for those who are going through a similar process? How do we understand what is holy, what is sacred?

She shares about the process of recognizing the things from the faith she inherited that she wanted to move past, while also thanking those who helped her to do so, discovering the barriers that were at one point invisible, the struggle to take scripture seriously but with a different interpretative lens, on not leaving her faith behind, spiritual fear and your spiritual gut feelings, and why having people in your corner is so important to transformation.

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Trigger warning: this episode contains lots of stories about Evangelical youth camp experiences

Tripp sat down with the people behind the new movie, Camp Manna, producer Evan Koons, writer/director Eric Machiela, and writer/director Eric Scott Johnson. Camp Manna, which comes out June 5th, is about Ian Fletcher, a "nonbeliever", who is shipped off to a backwoods Christian camp, where he is forced to compete in (and survive) a Biblically-themed Olympiad known as the God Games.

They explain why they made the movie, give you some behind-the-scenes stories, why it is important to respect the community you are poking fun at, the different responses to the film, exploring the stereotypes and outsider/insider perspectives, missions trips, conservative Christian youth culture, and the best Gary Busy stories from filming the movie.

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Cynthia Rigby, The W.C. Brown Professor of Theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, is back on the podcast to talk about her new book, Holding Faith: A Practical Introduction to Christian Doctrine. This a book for the classroom, for small groups, for pastors, and for the church.

Tripp and Cynthia talk about the need for congregations to have permission to ask (out loud) the questions they have, the role Christian language plays in the life of the church, the resistance to using theological language, feminist critiques of classical christology, the way the incarnation shapes our understanding of the trinity, the trinitarian dialectic, and the church as home.

• is distinctively Christian language necessary in order to speak anything distinctively Christian?
• how experience plays a role in how we know who God is?
• what constitutes a community today?
• how can we speak of God?

Plus, revelation and the unknowable nature of God, why you shouldn't read the bible for a year, and why the christological controversies and their conclusions actually matter.

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Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you.

In this episode, Tripp picks up where he left off last time and addresses some more questions surrounding evil:

• doesn't the problem of evil change throughout scripture?
• aren't there different answers to it?
• how does the move towards monotheism in Judaism (not to mention Christian monotheism) change our understanding of evil?

Tripp explains the problem of evil for monotheism compared to polytheism, how the question for a henotheistic concept of God is not can you do anything about evil, but will you, and how a monotheistic concept of God widens the scope of the problem of evil to a cosmic scale.

Plus, what do you do with all the different answers the Bible gives? and what are we saying 'no' to when we affirm platitudes like, 'God is in control'?

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This episode was taken from a Facebook live book-release soirée with Donna Bowman and Ryan Newsome to celebrate the release of The Homebrewed Christianity Guide To Being Human.

Donna, Ryan, and Tripp talk about all things human. They discuss anthropology as it relates to gender, science, and death, the tension between a reductive materialism and dualism, the drive for religious people to have an ethical prescription for each situation, the relationship of humans to authority - whether a creator, or institution, or system, Buber and Kierkegaard, the different biblical accounts of what it means to be a human, the problematic relationships that people have with the church because of our inherited and unquestioned anthropology.

• what does it means to think theologically about what it means to be human?
• what part of the church's previous conversations about anthropology we need to leave behind?
• what is our purpose and function - what are we here for?
• and how does Jesus figure in to what it means to be human?

Plus, Donna gives some suggestions for films that provoke questions about what it means to be human. And make sure to check out Tripp's interview with Donna about pussy hats and #MAGA hats...

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Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you.

We got lot of questions about evil, suffering, and divine power. There is the classic philosophical question about evil, and then there is the theological question about evil. How do you even begin to answer these questions? do you deny the goodness of God? do you deny the reality of evil? or do we reject God's divine omnipotence?

But before he even gets to those questions, Tripp address the two trajectories in the questions asked:

• What is scripture's actual answer to question of evil and suffering?
• Does doing theodicy even make sense when you look at the history of slavery and racism in America?

Sometimes we answer theological questions in a way that abstracts our lived experience. So Tripp, in this Q&A, wants to affirm the experiences that generate these questions, while also trying to situate them in the broader context of the theological and philosophical questions about evil.

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This live podcast was recorded after a Theology Nerd Bootcamp about religion and science. Will Rose and Jeff Pugh joined Tripp for an evening about faith, science, and science fiction. The day-long event covered:

1. The perceived cultural conflict between religion and science is primarily due to American Evangelicals' obsession with anti-intellectualism
2. How Augustine is more progressive when it comes to religion and science dialogue than 98% of Evangelicals
3. When theological truth is divorced from the scientific account of reality you end up with doctrines that have nothing to do with the world we live in

Now what? Where do we go from here when trying to have healthy conversations about faith and science in congregations? How do we have fruitful dialogue?

Jeff, Will, and Tripp discuss the problem of fundamentalism in both religion and science, what happens when both don't give accurate accounts of our lived experience, and why it's easier to exegete comic books and Star Wars movies than scripture. Plus, they talk about Black Panther, Tripp gives a taxonomy of the relationship between religion and science using force sensitive characters in Star Wars, how the force relates to Christ consciousness, and more!

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Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you.

Today's question: is the canon open or closed? how would communities decide what new texts should be considered to be part of an ongoing living bible or canon?

In this episode, Tripp explains what the the canon is, and gives 3 reasons to open the canon, and 3 reasons to keep it closed. Plus, Tripp shares what he would add to the canon.

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This week's episode was from the live Resident Aliens podcast in Durham, North Carolina.

Before we hear from Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, Tripp talks with Molly Brummett Wudel and Tim Conder from Emmaus Way. You'll hear a little bit about the story behind Emmaus Way, the work they are doing in Durham, their community hermeneutic, how they confront the challenges of church planting today, and why helping churches learn to be a part of meaningful social change and also transforming the inner life of the church is so important to their work.

Then, Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon talk with Tripp about their book, Resident Aliens. They discuss the christological assertion at the heart of the text, their distaste for Pietism, the distorted character of our world for the formation of people, restoring the adventure to Christianity, the weight of one's identity given at baptism, the burden of deciding who you are, how to address issues of sexuality in the church, and the anxiety of losing culture dominance. Plus, Tripp explains why Hauerwas and Willimon have never been on the podcast before.

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