Theology Nerd Throwdown

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

Tripp was in Santa Barbara where the Way Collective sponsored the Believing Skepticast at the phenomenal Third Window Brewing Co. Tripp and Tim talk about what is happening with religion in the 21st century and navigating the tricky waters of faith and doubt. Whereas in the past, atheists and believers from separate camps would debate in the public sphere, today we often see hints of both schools of thought within the same person! Plus, as religion (especially Christianity) is changing all over the place, we need more conversations like this that help us stay tuned-in and promote more compassion! Sometimes it’s easiest to give in to the division we see all over the place, but conversations about faith and doubt can help us see a different way to be together: one of unity in a fragmented world! That’s why a new movement is beginning in Santa Barbara to develop a community for those wanting to have fresh and transformative conversations about deep living for the common good. This movement is called the Way Collective, and emphasizes practices and values that create more adventure, wholeness, beauty, and sustainability for all. The Way Collective will be hosting friend of the podcast Peter Rollins for a night of pints and parables on Friday, May 26th. If you’re in the Santa Barbara area and want to be confronted with probing parables revealing what lies beneath the surface, you won’t want to miss this! In this intimate event, Pete will be offering some of his favorite parables along with some reflections and conversation. You can get tickets here. Want to win a FREE complete set of the new Bibliotheca bible? One lucky HBC community member and one other random winner will win a complete set from our friends over at Bibliotheca. Click here to enter the giveaway. The more you share, the more entries you get, the better your chances of winning. Speaking of the HBC community… 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. If you become a member in April 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. #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

Jeffrey Pugh and Eric Hall have taken over the Theology Nerd podcast this week! Jeff and Eric, authors of the Homebrewed Guide to the End Times and God (respectively), sat down early on Holy Saturday to talk about their books, how a young Assemblies of God Eric got an endowed chair at a Catholic school, and what it was like to be an original Jesus Freak with Jeff in the 60s and 70s. They also get super nerdy and talk about: what is truth? and how do you get to the truth of God? how do you interpret Christ’s return and make sense of it in today’s world? what do Taoism and Meister Eckhart have in common? For the rest of April you can get their books for $2.99 (and Tripp’s guide to Jesus) for Kindle and Nook. Or, you can go to homebrewedguides.com and order the whole 10 book series! 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. 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. If you become a member in April 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. #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 you an Oordian? Are you a member of Oord Nation? Listen to Thomas Jay Oord answer your questions about open and relation theology and you just might become an Oordian. In this episode Tripp and Tom answer a stack of questions that people sent in about open and relational theology. Topics include: divine power, dealing with doubt, the relationship between religion and science, evil and suffering, and some different reasons why people go open and relational, prayer, eschatology, and more! So if you have some questions that you are itching to get answered, make sure to sign up for the Homebrewed email list so you can get updates about when the next Q&A will be and so you can send us those questions you need answered. 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. 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. If you become a member in April 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. #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 a Q&A episode of the Theology Nerd podcast, where we answer questions that listeners like you send in. We talk about how not to preach the woman at the well story (John 4), the intersection of musical theater and theology, and what Peter Berger’s Sacred Canopy has to say (if anything) about the Trump administration. The music video for Trey Pearson’s new single is out now, so check it out. You can listen to the interview with Trey here, or watch the video 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… 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. 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. If you become a member in April 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

Are you ready to get real with Niebuhr? Scott Paeth, professor of ethics at DePaul in Chicago, is on for this edition of the Why Go? series. Today, Scott is giving us 5 reasons why we should go Niebhurian (Niebuhr is probably the most influential American theologian of the 20th century, FYI). Scott is also the author of The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians. How, as Christians, are we to engage in society? How are we to understand human nature? How should we understand the nature of evil and sin? All of these questions and more are covered in this very timely episode. Follow Scott on Facebook. You should also follow Homebrewed on Facebook, that way, you get notifications when we do live videos or webinars.     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! 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