Homebrewed Christianity

To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year.

Tickets for Theology Beer Camp in Denver (August 18-19) and Oklahoma City (August 25-26) are on sale now! But you better hurry, prices go up Friday!

In this episode, Eric Hall, author of the Homebrewed Guide to God (on sale now), and Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen Professor of Peace and Justice at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, witnesses to a room full of (slightly tipsy) progressive Protestants on behalf of the Catholic Church.

Eric (who also wrote Paradox of Authenticity) also puts on summer camps for high school students to integrate faith and ecology into their own understanding of themselves, God, and the world. Rumor has it he's got scholarships for podcast listeners who have students who would be interested in attending. You can email Tripp for more info about this or using Eric's discussion videos for your small group or congregation while reading the Homebrewed Guide to God.

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To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year.

This is friend of the podcast, professor at Xavier, and author of the Homebrewed Guide to Salvation Adam Clark's session from the first Theology Beer Camp.

Adam talks about notions of salvation in scripture, gives a survey of different atonement theories, and challenges our assumptions about what salvation is in our post-truth age.

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Pete and Tripp are back for another bonus episode. To help get ready for the launch of Theology Beer Camp in Denver and Oklahoma City this August, Peter Rollins and Tripp got on Facebook live to answer your questions. In this episode: you’ll get to hear how Pete would run a youth group purity retreat… Read more about Peter Rollins Casts Out a Demon & Plans a Middle School Purity Retreat #theologybeercamp

Pete and Tripp are back for another bonus episode.

To help get ready for the launch of Theology Beer Camp in Denver and Oklahoma City this August, Peter Rollins and Tripp got on Facebook live to answer your questions.

In this episode:

• you'll get to hear how Pete would run a youth group purity retreat
• what they think about mysticism in our modern context
• whether your decision to drink that delicious IPA was your choosing or determined
• how to dress like Pete and Tripp
• and, for the first time, hear Pete talk about casting out demons

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Are you ready to get your heart strangely warmed?

Next up in the Why Go? series, Thomas Jay Oord joins Tripp to talk about why you should go Wesleyan. Tom gives 13 reasons, including:

• God's primary attribute is love
• God is triune
• God acts first in every moment to offer salvation, and humans freely respond to God's offer
• God does not predestine some to heaven and others to hell
• God values and seeks to redeem all creation: humans and non-humans alike

and more!

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How do we, as Christians, interact with those people who raise our anxiety level?

Theological ethicist at Mercer University David Gushee is on to talk about his book, "A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends." This book was written before the election, and little did he know how many more anxious Christian friends he would gain after the election.

Gushee says that anxious, white Christians helped to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump. Their anxiety was crucial to his political platform, anxiety about:

• the loss of Christian faith in the country
• loss of white hegemony and power
• security related to terrorism and immigration
• the economy
• the dominance of cultural elites who don't share their values
• political correctness
• anxiety over the future of America as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic country
• a country where authoritative white, male leaders are no longer in charge

All of that was coded into this election in one way or another. Donald Trump tapped those anxieties and made a winning campaign out of them.

When theology and politics get together people can get anxious. So this conversation is especially pertinent given out current theo-political climate.

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Peter Rollins and Tripp wanted to make a special bonus episode to make sure that you know about Theology Beer Camp this summer in Denver and Oklahoma City.

Pete and Tripp take questions submitted by you (yes, you!) and discuss their favorite parables, atonement theories, and pre-meal prayers. They will be doing another Facebook Live video Monday, March 13th at 9:30am Pacific. So if you want to hear Pete and Tripp tell the other one why they're wrong again, tune in to Pete's Facebook page next Monday. And if you have questions or topics you'd like to hear them discuss, you can shoot us a tweet, email, smoke signal, or carrier pigeon.

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We're all Kierkegaardians, whether we know it or not.

So why not hear 5 reasons to let Soren salt your theological grub. Stephen Backhouse, author of the new Kierkegaard biography, Kierkegaard: A Single Life, give us five reasons to embrace our Kierkegaardian inheritance.

Why go Kierkegaard? There is not school or church of Kierkegaard. He made sure that there could not be. Instead, he is the salt to your steak, the pepper to the sauce, the lemon zest to the beer. Kierkegaard will:

• help you find the point
• help you articulate what the !£%$ is wrong with Christianity in your country
• help you articulate what the !£%$ is right with Christianity in your country
• help you become a person
• help you become a better person

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Buckle your theological safety belts.

If you're a theology nerd, just prepare yourself: it's about to get real. Paul Hinlicky, professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, is on talking about his new book, Divine Simplicity.

In this conversation, Tripp and Paul talk about:

• divine simplicity
• how christology is a challenge to the normal way we do metaphysics
• divine revelation
• and the situatedness of knowledge

If you hang out long enough with medieval theologians, and bring their ideas to the present, things can get pretty radical. Plus, Paul explains what happens when the the church has made inclusion a lazy version of tolerance. Hint: it actually ends up collapsing difference.

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There's a new sacred in town.

Today we are going to talk about the altars where we worship, and it just so happens that is the name of a new book by Juan Floyd-Thomas, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, and Mark Toulouse - The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Pop Culture.

We were joined by all three authors to talk about the relationship of religion and culture, the religious nature of culture, sports (which of course means the Lakers), reclaiming Marx's cultural criticism today, the movie Zootopia, but, sadly, not August and Everything After by the Counting Crows.

There are seven attributes of organized religion that also exist in popular culture. They are:

• doctrine
• myth
• ethics
• ritual
• experience
• institutions
• material

Juan, Stacey, and Mark use these to figure out how people find the sacred in:

• body and sex
• big business
• entertainment
• politics
• sports
• science and technology

If you've ever been worried that some of the podcasts are too nerdy and you just want something cool and smart to say about movies, music, sports, culture, etc., then this is the interview for you.

Books mentioned in this episode: The Religious Experience of Mankind and Worldviews by Ninian Smart

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