Theology Nerd Throwdown

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. In this episode Tripp tries to tackle two questions: How did the early church see the relationship between religion/faith and reason/science? How has contemporary science impacted the way Christians read scripture? Learn about Augustine’s 4 rules for negotiating faith and reason, the multiple layers of meaning in scripture, and how this battle between faith and reason has been internalized. There are lots of ways you can submit a question for Tripp to answer: go to trippfuller.com and click the “send voicemail” button on the right (near the scroll bar); you can also leave us a 5-star review on iTunes with your question as the review; you can tweet @trippfuller; or you can send an email with your question to mediaguru@trippfuller.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back by popular demand, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza sits down to talk with Tripp about Thanksgiving, the theology of nostalgia, and the politics of wholeness. They discuss: the postwar origins of Thanksgiving how do we reconcile the Christian rhetoric of gratitude and the founding of our country on the genocide of indigenous peoples appropriate (and inappropriate) holiday costumes for children what did the first thanksgiving look like? do we really know that story? the bad theology of nostalgia and the bad politics of wholeness how to develop practices of togetherness Plus, Robyn and Tripp talk about a cool new #goactivisttheology project you won’t want to miss.   If you are also in North Carolina, you better get ready for two back-to-back live podcasts in December. On December 7th Tripp will be at Wake Forest University School of Divinity talking with Bill Leonard (author of the Homebrewed Guide to Church History) and on December 8th he will be in Cary, NC. If you really want to make your advent great, join Tripp, Diana Butler Bass, and the folks from Crackers and Grape Juice in Washington DC on December 16th. You can get tickets and learn more here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theologian and activist Timothy Murphy is on the podcast to talk about his new book, Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel. It’s part of the (Process) Theology Nerd Book Giveaway sponsored by Process Century Press and the Center for Process Studies In this episode you’ll hear about Timothy’s interest not just in process, but in social justice and politics, the central questions driving this book, why we should not avoid conflict in the church, the challenges of addressing social justice issues with mainline Protestants, and about his work with Progressive Christians Uniting and how it influenced the direction of his work. Plus, how the cosmology he develops in the book ends up connected to ecclesiology what is a planetary gospel? practicing differentiated solidarity and the spiritual practice of kenosis how not to be an ally some of the practices faith communities can engage in that address issues of privilege No (process) theology nerd will want to miss out on this huge opportunity to build a process theology and philosophy library. The Center for Process Studies and Process Century Press are giving away 5, that’s right, 5 sets of 20 zesty books. A lucky grand prize winner will get an additional 15 books. Enter to win now! Are you ready to end the war on Advent? Are you ready to Make Advent Great Again? Make Advent Great Again (#MAGA) is a pop-up community for holiday resistance and renewal. The cost? Contribute whatever you can to help make this possible for everyone. The suggested donation is $20, but no one is turned down for lack of funds. Each Monday-Friday you will get an email with a 5 minute Advent reflection; you will get access to a private Facebook group where you can discuss, share, and reflect; there will also be a LIVE session every Monday. Visit makeadventgreatagain.com to sign up and see who will be contributing. Thanks to our new Homebrewed Community members! You can join the Homebrewed Community, get a sweet ecclesiastical title, get access to all sorts of zesty bonus material, and help support the podcast. Just go to homebrewedcommunity.com and join today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for all the freedom, liberty, and patriotic stuff you can handle! Jason Micheli and Teer Hardy from the Crackers & Grape Juice Podcast. In this episode the Hauerwasian Mafia sent one of its Drill Sergeants, Jason, to talk about the predicament of faith, freedom, and the conflicting calls to allegiance that color the American landscape. We hope your Independence Day grilling time enjoys this conversation. Word up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to a special episode of the Theology Nerd podcast. Today, the Good Doctor Daniel Kirk is talking to Jeffrey Pugh about his book,  The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times: Theology After You’ve Been Left Behind. Hear about Jeffrey’s personal history with apocalyptic movements, the secret to the end of the world, the system of thought behind the dispensationalist beliefs, inerrancy and hermeneutics, the difference between apocalypticism and eschatology, the difference between literal and non-literally readings and how we know when to use which. Plus, Daniel and Jeff talk about: what can apocalyptic literature teach us today? what role does Israel play in all of this? how do we tell life-giving narratives, rather than death-dealing ones? #TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke… We will be starting a new High Gravity class for the Homebrewed Community Members: The Theology Nerd’s Guide to Reading the Bible. Current members will have access to the class, and non-members will be able to purchase the class soon. But the best way to get the class is to become a monthly Homebrewed Community Member. You will get access to all of the past High Gravity courses, #EPICReads, exclusive bonus content, and a network of other theology nerds to help you brew your own faith. Just visit homebrewedcommunity.com to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. #TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

this is NOT the good Dr. Kirk 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“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. Make sure to enter the giveaway for a chance to win 10 Walter Brueggemann Books, as well as all the audio from the five sessions he lead for Adult VBS at the Hatchery last summer. The more you share, the more entries you get, the better your chances of winning! One lucky winner will get all 10 books and the audio, two runners-up will get the audio from Adult VBS. Enter now! Based in Redondo Beach, California, Hatchery LA is a church planting center that incubates innovative, sustainable models of church. Learn more about how you can be a part of the Hatchery by clicking here.  #TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. #TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke… If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content – like the upcoming #EPICReads session. If you become a member this month you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith. Are you a youth minister? Make sure to sign up for the FREE Open and Relational Youth Ministry video course. You also text OPENYOUTH to 44222 to get all of the content to help you overcome the biggest challenges you face as a youth minister.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The podcast is coming to you live from the Hive in Cincinnati with our friends at the Common Pilgrim. Tripp talks to friend of the podcast (and author of the forthcoming Homebrewed Guide to Salvation) Adam Clark, and Alice Connor about her new book Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation. Plus, Tripp talks to Troy about the Hive, a new project in and around the Cincinnati area that cultivates mindfulness which manifests as creativity and intentional social engagement. They do this through retreats, events, classes, and one-on-one direction. #TheologyBeerCamp Summer Edition is coming to Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets. You won’t want to miss Tripp and Peter Rollins dueling in the process vs. radical theology battle of the summer. Plus, we might convince Pete to sing karaoke… If you want to help support the podcast, head over to homebrewedcommunity.com now and become a member today. Not only will you get a sweet ecclesiastical title, but you’ll also get all sorts of perks and insider access to Homebrewed content – like the upcoming #EPICReads session. If you become a member this month you’ll get the Process Theology Bootcamp Tripp did with John Cobb and Jay McDaniel. That’s over six hours of zesty goodness. Plus, you’ll get to experience the joy of supporting the only theology podcast that gives you ingredients to brew your own faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices