The Catacombic Machine

David talks to Timothy Chilvers about community, exclusion, difference, Jean Vanier, Michel Foucault, disability theology and how the voice of the one who is most least like us is maybe the voice that we most need to hear.  This episode will challenge how we think about communities of faith and what it means to include all, regardless of who they are.

David talks to Merold Westphal.

Freestyle Christianity is back after a short winter break, and we are back stronger than ever since David Capener has joined our ranks. In this episode Joel and David speaks about the suspended reality of our age. Enjoy!

Josef talks to radical theologian Noëlle Vahanian about her book The Rebellious No and an article titled The Gospel of the Word Made Flesh: Insurrection from Within the Heart of Divinity, which will be published in An Insurrectionist Manifesto (2016).

Josef talks to Kester Brewin about technology and radical theology. The conversation explores how technology amplifies our desires and how it cannot live up to what it promises; rather then making us free, technology imprisons us. Kester's respons to this presumably disheartening thesis is a dirty, radical theology that does not only take serious the technology of religion but also the religion of technology.

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Tripp Fuller talks to Josef about his new book Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic...Or Awesome! As the title suggests, the conversation centers on Jesus and Tripp explains why the crazy notion that God was revealed in a first-century homeless Jew is not only relevant but also freaking good news for the whole world. We highly recommend you to buy the book!

In this episode Josef talks to Jeffrey Robbins about radical theology--its lineage and its coming of age. The conversation moves from Jeff's jazz like, deleuzian understanding of difference and repetition to his use of Catherine Malabou's signature concept "plasticity," which he employs when talking about radical onto-theology, with a difference. Jeff is a brilliant thinker and a great inspiration for our Freestyle project so we hope that you will enjoy listening to what he has to say.

Petra Carlsson returns to the podcast for a theological conversation with Josef on a material understanding of sacramentality. The talk centers around the eucharist and makes use of thinkers and artists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Edouard Manet and Diego Velázquez.

In this episode Joel and Josef freestyle with Jesse Turri on process theology, creativity, imagination, art, MacGyver, icons, umbrellas, Catherine Keller, Gilles Deleuze, and much more.

Alexander Bard is an Internet sociologist, a cyber philosopher, and the co-author of the Futurica Trilogy, and Syntheism: Creating God In The Internet Age. In this episode of Freestyle Christianity Podcast, Alexander speaks to Josef about the Internet revolution and our need for a proper metaphysics for the Internet age.