We are live from North Carolina today!

 J. Aaron Simmons, Lauren Winner, and Ryan Newsome were all on stage for the live podcast from the Progressive Youth Ministry conference at Montreat in North Carolina. PYM just announced details for next year's conference, so make sure to check progressiveyouthministry.org for more.

This episode includes the full interview with Aaron Simmons from this past March. If you want the full live podcast experience you'll have to come in person next year! Big thanks to the Center for Process Studies for sponsoring (and providing the beer).

Tripp and co-host Tony Jones talked with Aaron about what exactly phenomenology is, what it's like being a phenomenological philosopher and Pentecostal, why phenomenology is different than the philosophical framework that came before it, Heidegger on subjectivity and self-hood, plus, Aaron gives a live phenomenological reduction demonstration.

Throughout, Tripp explains how to teach phenomenology to teenagers in confirmation classes and why every youth minister should be a phenomenologist.

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Today on the podcast is Todd Outcalt, pastor and prolific writer, to talk about his books, The Other Jesus: Stories from World Religions and Common Ground: Lessons and Legends from the World’s Great Faiths. These books were written out of the experience of interfaith dialogue, learning about and wrestling with other religions, and how their views about Christianity and the person of Jesus shaped his experience.

In this interview you'll hear Tripp and Todd discuss what it's like to be an author who publishes and writes regularly and a pastor who preaches weekly, the creative tasks of writing sermons for a congregation and writing for a general audience, and what not to do in interfaith dialogue.

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Today on the podcast is Todd Outcalt, pastor and prolific writer, to talk about his books, The Other Jesus: Stories from World Religions and Common Ground: Lessons and Legends from the World’s Great Faiths. These books were written out of the experience of interfaith dialogue, learning about and wrestling with other religions, and how their views about Christianity and… Read more about Religious Diversity, Jesus, and the Church with Todd Outcalt

The good Doctor Daniel Kirk is on a road trip across the country with Clan Kirk, but no need to fear your Lectiocast is still here! It is an honor to fill in for Daniel and talk some lectionary goodness. We will see how long it takes before Daniel quits his trip and gets me off the show, but for now I am excited.

During the podcast I discuss the four lectionary texts for the week and the questions I imagine inspiring my sermonizing...if I was still working in a pulpit.

For each of the texts I pulled out some questions that could drive a sermon. Here's a few of them.

Matthew 28:16-20 * Where is Galilee today? * Does our worship hold space for doubt? * What kind of disciples are we making? * Where is God with us now? * What is the church's relationship to the kin-dom?   Psalm 8 * How does the world become creation? * What are the habits and boundaries that structure space for creativity? * God-spotting. * Eco-stewardship   Genesis 1:1-2:4a * Go Keller * Don't conquer chaos, it's where the spirit-filled living happens. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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"Lament is the antidote of denial." - Walter Brueggemann

This episode Tripp and Nathan talk to Erin Schendzielos about new project her and the Shelter50 Publishing Collective are working on with Walter Brueggemann - Antidote: Interruptions of Lament and of New Originary Stirrings. This project was inspired by the Adult VBS Walter did at the Hatchery last summer (you can enter to win the audio from all 5 sessions plus over $200 worth of Brueggemann books here) and by his book Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks. The ides is to honor him and all of his amazing work by having theologians, poets, musicians, artists, academics, lay people, etc., respond to a chapter  either through prose, poem, song, art, etc., and compile the responses in a book. Erin and Shelter50 did a similar project with an essay by John Caputo called It Spooks: Living in Response to an Unheard Call.

This is part of the "on the porch" series: an extended and vulnerable dialogue among friends sharing zesty craft beverages. It is one way of living out the very theory Brueggemann talked about that inspired Erin in the first place - out loud grief work done together as the antidote to the denial of reality. You'll get to hear a little bit more about Erin, her story, what inspired her to pursue theology and begin a project like Shelter50.

Shelter50 is the name of a former space where innovation, imagination, & interrogation merged. It was a physical place of hospitality which invited people to explore the ways we manifest in the world and to investigate the ways our beliefs function in our lives. It was a space which hosted a wide variety of experiences aimed at bringing people together in meaningful & transformative ways. Shelter50 Publishing Collective (PC) was birthed out of (and named from) this former space. Shelter50 PC then, carries forward this (currently more conceptual) space which seeks to be colonized by none, and simultaneously is open to diverse expressions and imaginative undertakings from within and without Christianity.

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The one and only Walter Brueggemann is on the podcast again, this time talking with Tripp and Barry Taylor about his latest book, Money and Possessions. In scripture, Brueggemann says, there is a contest between commodity and covenant. Advocacy for covenantal economics  and resistance to an extractive, predatory economics occurs throughout scripture.  In the interview… Read more about Money and Possessions with Walter Brueggemann

The one and only Walter Brueggemann is on the podcast again, this time talking with Tripp and Barry Taylor about his latest book, Money and Possessions. In scripture, Brueggemann says, there is a contest between commodity and covenant. Advocacy for covenantal economics  and resistance to an extractive, predatory economics occurs throughout scripture. 

In the interview he:

• introduces his framework for understanding questions about money and possessions in the New as well as Old Testament
• discusses how this framework relates to our current economic situation in the US both on the individual and collective level
• addresses American exceptionalism and our current political climate
• explains the 10 commandments as resistance to the totalizing narrative of Pharaoh
• uses the exodus and the four key characters (Joseph, Moses, Pharaoh, and God) to help us understand all of this

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Are we all taking different paths up the same mountain? or are their many mountains? is there one ultimate reality or many?

Andrew Schwartz, director of the Center for Process Studies - a research center of Claremont School of Theology, in affiliation with Claremont Graduate University. CPS seeks to promote the common good by means of the relational approach found in process thought. Andrew will be teaching one of the courses at the Process Summer Institute this June on deep religious pluralism. The Process Theology Summer Institute is a 4-day (June 5-8, 2017) intensive course designed to introduce basic issues in the theory and application of process theology. You can participate in person or online!

Tripp and Andrew talk about growing up Nazarene and discovering process thought, the nature of religious commitment for the individual, going through crises of faith, the shape of an active and engaged faith, religious pluralism within and without Christianity, and, of course, process philosophy and theology.

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Greg Garrett, English professor at Baylor University, is a professional writer who teaches creative writing, film, literature, and theology classes at Baylor University. As a fiction writer, he has published forty short stories and critically-acclaimed novels. He is perhaps best known, however, as a critic and theologian exploring the intersections of literature, culture, religion, and politics.… Read more about #ZombieTime with Greg Garrett

Greg Garrett, English professor at Baylor University, is a professional writer who teaches creative writing, film, literature, and theology classes at Baylor University. As a fiction writer, he has published forty short stories and critically-acclaimed novels. He is perhaps best known, however, as a critic and theologian exploring the intersections of literature, culture, religion, and politics. Greg is on to talk with Tripp about his book Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse, and his spiritual memoir Crossing Myself: A Story of Spiritual Rebirth.

Tripp and Greg talk about the Walking Dead (spoiler alert), the history of zombie literature and movies and their existential signification, what makes for a compelling story, the Christian response to a dangerous world, what it means to be fully alive, and how the zombie apocalypse intersects with reality.

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