Homebrewed Christianity

In the final episode of HBC's 10th birthday week, Tripp talks with film pioneer Hannah Leader. Hannah worked as a lawyer in the independent film world, but realized the need for high-quality Christian films.

Hannah and Tripp talk about how she got into the film industry and found her way talking about Christianity, the struggle to find videos that didn't depict Jesus as a white guy, why all other forms of art (music, art, architecture) are done to the highest level for the church, except for film, the sanitation of our lives inside and outside of the church, the challenges of bringing scripture to the screen, and what, as a person of faith, this project helped her discover about the gospels that she hadn't noticed before.

Plus, Hannah gives some suggestions for using the films in your community.

Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. Or, get the whole collection here.

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Today is the last day to get the cheapest tickets for Theology Beer Camp! Don't let the birthday celebrations die - join us for Theology Beer Camp this August in Asheville, NC. There are only 99 spots, so get 'em while they're hot.

JC (Just Catherine) Keller is back on the podcast to talk about her book, Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility.

Catherine and Tripp talk about:

• The possibilities for theology today
• What is Christ Inc. and how has christology been short-circuited from its intercarnational possibilities?
• How does theopoetics reframe the christological quest?
• How do we make theopoetics inviting to the non-specialist?
• What would a process-relational liturgy look like?

Plus, hear Catherine talk about issues of exceptionalism - religious, political, racial, species - in our theology, the christological problem, liberating incarnation from corporations, the role of substance metaphysics in christology and where it falls short, and the ways unexamined interpretations impose themselves on bodies, and the secularization of right-wing Christianity, the Eucharist as hyper-gift, and anxieties surrounding our ethical responsibilities.

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And now for something completely different.

Sean McDowell, Associate Professor in the Christian Apologetics program at Biola University, and son of Josh McDowell, is on to talk about the newly revised and updated Evidence that Demands a Verdict.

Sean and Tripp talk about a lot things, including:

• What it's like being the son of someone everyone knows, and to be a part of the new edition of Evidence that Demands a Verdict

What the biggest doubts in his own life were and what made him question his father's work

The difference between an intellectual assent and gut-level response to faith

The experience of God and the role that evidence plays in talking about that

What are the main reasons not everyone finds Christianity as obviously true?

How do you differentiate what was part of the historical setting of the Bible from our current cultural context?

Plus, Sean talks about role-playing an atheist, the confrontational tone of the title, the cultural shifts that have taken place between the first edition and this one, relating to other parts of the church who don't agree with him, the ways in which the Enlightenment has shaped this conversation, issues of sexuality in the Bible and the early church and the changing role of women in scripture.

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Today is the day! HBC turns 10! To celebrate, we are selling tickets to Theology Beer Camp at the cheapest price for 48 hours. Jack Caputo is back and gives us 5 reasons to go Derrida: 1. Derrida give you the best argument against fundamentalism 2. It also is the best argument against modernism, including the… Read more about #HBC10: Why Go Derrida with John D. Caputo

Today is the day! HBC turns 10! To celebrate, we are selling tickets to Theology Beer Camp at the cheapest price for 48 hours. Jack Caputo is back and gives us 5 reasons to go Derrida: 1. Derrida give you the best argument against fundamentalism 2. It also is the best argument against modernism, including the… Read more about #HBC10: Why Go Derrida with John D. Caputo

This is Homebrewed Christianity's birthday week! We are celebrating by releasing 5 new episodes every day. Up first, activist theologian Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is back to talk about all sorts of things, including inviting everyone to Theology Beer Camp in Asheville, NC whit August 16-18 (tickets go on sale tomorrow so head over to theologybeercamp.com to get notified when they're available).

Robyn answers some questions from their last visit:

• how has their relationship to their own identity and their relationship to scripture changed over time?
• how to form a framework with which to view the Bible in a way that makes heternormitivity relevant for LGBTQ persons?
• how do you understand typical American theology and its connection to racist whiteness?
• how might our own inner life mobilize us to address pressing social concerns

Plus, Tripp and Robyn talk about the need for progressive Christians to have fun, to be playful with theology and not always so serious, joyful resistance, the truth, beauty, and goodness of the IPA, an epistemology of the gut, and the recent responses to gun violence.

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Today is the day! HBC turns 10! 

Jack Caputo is back and gives us 5 reasons to go Derrida:

1. Derrida give you the best argument against fundamentalism 2. It also is the best argument against modernism, including the new atheists, and reductionism 3. The undeconstructable, or unconditional, which is not a Platonic ideal, but a hope, an expectation. 4. Binary oppositions are deconstructable 5. The pervasive presence of biblical motifs in Derrida's work

Jack also explains his relationship to Derrida and his work, how Derrida's atheism was not the end of theology but the beginning of a new, more interesting post-theistic theology, whether Derrida is to blame for post-modernism, why absolutists are much scarier than relativists, and why post-modernism is neither absolutism nor relativism,

Plus, he tackles fundamentalism, the new atheists, Trump, and the distinction between beliefs and a deeper faith. Books mentioned:

Hoping Against Hope, The Folly of God, On Religion, Deconstruction in a Nutshell

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This is Homebrewed Christianity’s birthday week! We are celebrating by releasing 5 new episodes every day. Up first, activist theologian Robyn Henderson-Espinoza is back to talk about all sorts of things, including inviting everyone to Theology Beer Camp in Asheville, NC whit August 16-18 (tickets go on sale tomorrow so head over to theologybeercamp.com to… Read more about #HBC10: Raising Prophetic Christianity from the Dead with Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

These are the highlights from a live podcast in Atlanta with faculty from the McAfee School of Theology.

Up first, Graham Walker and Tripp talk about their mutual friendship with "cowboy theologian" Frank Tupper (and share some great stories), that moment when the struggles of faith and life animated the tradition he inherited, living in the Philippines, and how his Baptist identity has changed.

Then, biblical scholar Dr. Garber, talks about his geek conversion story, the lack of one cultural meta-narrative, the power of story and myth, re-imagining the world using geek culture, and how the religious questions of the past are being asked not by the church, but by popular culture.

Plus questions for biblical scholars Dr. Slater and Dr. Holmes: how does the text become sacred again after encountering academic criticism? at what point in your life did scripture become something worth studying? what questions do you hope linger with your students?

Dr. Nash and Nikki Hardeman help us think about making sense of the changing ministerial vocation economically, culturally, and ecclesiologically. And they share how their own piety shifted after being involved in the lives of the students they work with.

Finally, "The World's Most Interesting Ethics Professor" - David Gushee - and Dean Jeff Willetts play a game of au contraire mon frère.

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These are the highlights from a live podcast in Atlanta with faculty from the McAfee School of Theology. Up first, Graham Walker and Tripp talk about their mutual friendship with “cowboy theologian” Frank Tupper (and share some great stories), that moment when the struggles of faith and life animated the tradition he inherited, living in the… Read more about Live! from Atlanta #McAfeeTheology