Homebrewed Christianity

This episode is the highlights from the Live podcast at the Twin Cities School of Theology Launch Party. TwinSoT is new theological school being launched by Untied Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities and also new partner with the Hatchery LA. 

In the podcast you will hear from Barbara Holmes, Philip Clayton, Paul Capetz, Thorsten Mortiz and Maria Francesca French.

The highlight of the trip was definitely getting to connect with the local Deacons! It was amazing to put some human beings to the tweets and speak pipe calls. Plus I got to go to Fulton brewery afterwards and buy some the HBC Community members a pint.

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Let's talk about the church, faith and spiritual formation in the super connected and networked world we live in. We are joined by Clint Schnekloth, author of Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era. Over the course of the conversation he discusses 2nd life, Minecraft, YouTube, World of War Craft and other exciting places to ponder faith formation.

Clint is a legit Homebrewed Christianity Deacon and lead pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He lives in East Fayetteville, with his wife and three children, all ages six and under. If you are wise you will check out his most tasty blog and follow him on twitter.

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Friend of the podcast Brian McLaren is back to discuss the ecological crisis, the Bible and a stack of things in between. 

Bo and Brian also discuss his most recent book We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation. If you haven't checked it out you should.

Here's the Theology Nerd Throwdown episode from C21 in case you missed it and want to hear when Brian first started forgetting the podcast's name.

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This TNT Call-In is packed with conversation and contentious perspectives about God, culture and evangelical 'orthodoxy'.  

5 calls provide more material than Bo and Tripp can possibly deal with in one episode. At min 55 the 'Al' vs. 'The' debate resurfaces in a brand new way to end the show.

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Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is the Professor of Hebrew Bible at William Jessup University specializing in the historical, cultural, and archaeological contexts of ancient Israel and Judah.

Her interest in the daily lives of the average Israelite and Judahite household include economics, food preparation and consumption, religion, and the roles and relationships of the family. She is an experienced field archaeologist in Israel and is currently part of the archaeological excavation team at Tel es-Safi/Gath, Israel.

Dr. Shafer-Elliott is also the author of an academic book Food In Ancient Judah - and joins Bo to talk about all of these things!

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LeRon Shults is back on the podcast – partly to respond for some of the controversy he stirred up the last time he was on with Barry Taylor in Tripp’s very busy garage.

Talking about his unique evolutionary take on the development of religion and atheisms …

The other reason that he is back is to promote an explosive new venture by Syndicate Theology

F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and the author or editor of twelve other books, including his recent Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism (2014). Shults is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion in Boston, USA.

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Did you know that God is Unconscious?

I didn't until Tad Delay told me. Here's the thing, it is super sexy for nerds to talk about psychoanalysis, Freud and Lacan. Clearly Zizek can use them to write really sweet movie reviews but if you were wondering just what happens when psychoanalysis and theology hang out you need to read this book!

Tad has written an accessible that by its end will have you thinking thoughts you had no idea how to think before you started.

Tad is a friend of the show and fellow PhD candidate at Claremont. His book is so good and the ideas so deep that just one interviewer was not enough - we had to get three! Tripp, Barry Taylor and Pete Rollins (who wrote the forward to Tad's book) sit down to chat with him.

You will also notice the sweet cover illustration by our Elder of Graphical Sweetness - Jesse Turri.

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Scott Paeth and Douglas Ottati tackle the lightning round at Progressive Youth Ministry with a whirlwind tour of the history of liberal theology. 

You can hear part 1 of the live show from that evening featuring Amy Butler and John Vest here.

Both Paeth and Ottati have been on HBC multiple times. Here are a couple of links for each of them.

Paeth's first visit.  BONUS-cast.     2014 PYMC.

Ottati's first visit (Christology).  Why write a liberal theology?

We want to thank Phillips Theological Seminary for their awesome sponsorship of this evening and their ongoing partnership. Please check out their new ministry degrees ... including the Masters in Theological Studies and Doctor of Ministry!

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