Theology Nerd Throwdown

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.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! 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. Make sure to go to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets for Denver and Oklahoma City before Friday, and visit homebrewedguides.com to get your copy of the complete Homebrewed Christianity Guides with a discount, and get $100 in free High Gravity downloads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Are you a youth minister looking for help in making your youth ministry more open and relational? Then sign up here to get info on a FREE open and relational video course for youth ministers. Or you can text OPENYOUTH to 44222. And don’t forget to head over to theologybeercamp.com to get your tickets for the Theology Beer Camp Summer Tour in Denver and Oklahoma City this August. Tickets go on sale March 15th and by signing up you will get first crack at the cheapest tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 We’ve got a very special announcement: Theology Beer Camp is going on the road. Tripp will be joined by Peter Rollins in Denver and Oklahoma this August for a special session of Theology Beer Camp. We’re calling it Theology Summer Camp#SONFest Tickets will go on sale beginning March 15th. Head over to theologybeercamp.com to find out more info and sign up to get notified when the tickets go live. Ps – if you sign up, you’ll get first crack at the lowest priced tickets   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is an audiological taste of what happened at the first annual Theology Beer Camp. During this special session of theological tailgating Philip Clayton and Tripp got all processy and talked about Jesus, God, creation, science – all while a cornhole tournament happened below! If after listening to this you’ve got some questions about process theology you should let us know! We will be doing an intro to process episode and want your input. So send us a tweet, or email us your questions. Or, you could just join the Homebrewed Community (click, “Join the Community”above) and get access to the secret Facebook group and submit your questions there. This session is meant to push process people towards Christian categories and questions, and push the Christian people in the direction of process, and to be heretical on both sides. This is meant to be really funny and serious constructive theology. Phil and Tripp take classical Christian questions, mix them with a little process thought, and see what happens. They start with Jesus’s relationship to God, God’s relationship to creation, and the resurrection. Then they tackle the relationship of science and Christianity, the importance of the historical narrative of Israel, reverse salvation from sanctification, relational eschatology, and how the Jewish notion of Messiah is really processy. Plus, Tripp tells you what two worldviews/theologies irritate him the most. We’ve got a secret and we’re having a hard time keeping it to ourselves. If you want to find out what the secret is, you should really text BEERMEJESUS to 44222 to be the first to know what the secret is. There have been many leaks about this secret, and while the leaks are real, the news is fake. So to make sure you get the best information, you should text BEERMEJESUS to 44222. Have we got some zesty news for you…it’s LIVE PODCAST time! This time, Tripp is heading up to Santa Barbara, CA where the Way Collective is sponsoring the Believing Skepticast at the phenomenal Third Window Brewing Co on March 2! Will we talk about what is happening with religion in the 21st century? Will we address navigating the tricky waters of faith and doubt? Will we chat while giving a cheers to one another with a tasty craft brew in-hand? The answer is: YES. This is a FREE event, but you do need to register. Click here for more info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of The Theology Nerd podcast is the Why Go Barthian? Webinar with Travis McMaken. This is another installment of our ongoing Why Go? series. In this episode you will get 5 reasons why you should go Barthian, plus: What does it mean to be Barthian? Barth didn’t want people to be Barthians, he wanted people to be theologians who spoke critically and carefully about Jesus. The three phases of Barth’s career Being a Barthian does not mean being neo-Orthodox. Barth was not a lone ranger, but was part of a broader dialectical theology movement. It’s important to ask who these other people are, what their shared assumptions were, what were the things they rejected together, and how do each of them remain uniquely faithful to the movement as a whole. And what exactly is dialectical theology anyway? Make sure to hit up Travis on twitter @WTravisMcMaken and check out his website.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special bonus episode from the Questions for the Believing Skeptic course. We are in a period where the confidence of rationalistic accounts of religion don’t work anymore. There has been an explosion of religion expression that doesn’t fit neatly into any box. As good philosophers and theologian, this new situation requires trying to come up with words and thoughts to make sense of it. Most people who have at least one foot in the door of a religious tradition haven’t escaped being and shaped by this cultural phenomenon. We don’t have the possibility of existing in a world that is enchanted or shaped by one religious narrative anymore. Even those who are ready to rock and roll for their religious team or tribe do so today in a way that is significantly different than before. We are now, more than ever, both a believer and a skeptic. How do we navigate this new landscape? To help guide us through this new situation the believer and the skeptic must ask the following questions: what time is it? is there help for my unbelief? what is the new normal? who do you say that I am? This episode is a snippet from the first lecture asking the question, “what time is it?” To become a Homebrewed Christianity Bishop or Elder, and get this plus much, much more, click on “Join the Community” on our website. By becoming an Elder you will essentially get this class for half off, and have access to every other class we do this year for free. Of course we hope you stay around. If you want to just be a part of this class, you can head over here to sign up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast. Homebrewed Community Member Jesse Thorson, a Junior at Columbia University and Outreach Team Leader at Columbia Faith and Action, put together this special Q&A session about Tripp’s Guide to Jesus (which is available for purchase wherever books are sold). They talk about: Historical Jesus Development of the doctrine of Christ The questions driving Christological innovations over the centuries Plus, some really practical advice for sharing our faith with those don’t share it A big shout out to Jesse and all the folks at Columbia Faith and Action for putting this session together! Did you know that the Homebrewed Christianity Community is where over 90% of the support for the podcast comes from? Those are the people who are a part of the secret Facebook group, part of the ongoing classes we do, they get to see and hear all sorts of things first, see and hear things no one else does, and get to do really awesome stuff like what Jesse did with this episode! You know that you too can be a part of the community and help support the podcast. Just head over to homebrewedcommunity.com to get started   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a very special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast: Epiphanation It’s always Epiphany when the Homebrewed Community gets together. What is Epiphanation? It is when we get together with the Homebrewed Community on Epiphany, discuss questions or topics that they have, live for 3 hours, while imbibing delicious craft beverages. To take part in the next Epiphanation and other Homebrewed events and courses, head on over to homebrewedcommunity.com to become a member. In this Epiphanation, we Epiphanate on: music, the arts, and the role the church plays in those John Cobb and Herman Daly’s understanding of process, the environment, and economics. the relationship between biblical studies and systematic theology We just launched a special give away for Youth Ministers as we anticipate seeing everyone at Progressive YouthMinistry next month in Asheville, NC! Plus, if you use the code HBC you will get $50 off. If you work with students make sure to enter so you get future info about youth work. If you don’t then this should be the last time you hear about it. There will be 31 winners and a grand prize worth over $500. Enter now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s time for The Theology Nerd podcast. We are relaunching this podcast stream (formerly TNT) with a multitude of formats, like Q&A, webinars, special HBC community events, and more! Make sure to click subscribe in wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. For this Q&A episode, we tackle: the logical and ethical problems with penal substitutionary atonement how the Kung Fu Panda (2) model of theodicy can help you win at parenting and at theology Tripp clears up some confusion about heresy the preferential option for the Jesse how an open and relational theologian thinks about the bible the really offensive part of the wrath of God Plus, Tripp tells one of the funniest jokes that he has ever heard (from a Benedictine monk) and explains why Lord of the Rings is superior to Star Wars. You can always click the speakpipe button to send us questions, comments, or love. Even better would be to tweet Tripp @trippfuller. If you don’t want to miss out on all the awesome perks of being a Homebrewed Community member, head over to homebrewedommunity.com and sign up now. And don’t miss the new course with Tripp and Barry Taylor, Questions for the Believing Skeptic. Sign up and get access to: four 90+ minute video lectures audio and video replay of each session conversational engagement with all the topics all of your questions will help make a companion book for the course invitation to a secret Facebook group to share questions, comments, and engage with others taking the course The idea is to be able to take this material and use it in your community after you go through it. Last but not least, you won’t want to miss your chance to go on a spiritual pilgrimage to Germany for the 500 anniversary of the Reformation. Click here for more details.         Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices