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This week’s Q&A dives deep into expanding our pneumatological horizons with Grace Ji-Sun Kim as we gear up for Pentecost Sunday. We tackle some fantastic questions about the Hebrew “ruach” versus Greek “pneuma,” unpack how Greco-Roman philosophy (thanks, Plato!) shaped early Trinitarian debates, and explore the fascinating gender fluidity of Spirit language throughout church history… Read more about Intercession at the Intersection: The Gender-Bending History of the Holy Spirit with Grace Ji-Sun Kim
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Here’s another fantastic conversation with Justin Barrett, cognitive scientist extraordinaire, who spends his time at the intersection of science and religion. We dove deep into why developmental psychology is such a powerful lens for understanding human nature – turns out you can’t figure out if a zebra is white with black stripes or black with… Read more about Justin Barrett: Cognitive Science & the Intersection of Faith and Development
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Bo comes back from an epic 22-year tradition canoe trip in the Adirondacks – complete with black flies, hypothermia, and some serious Type 2 fun – and drops maybe his most intense opening riff ever. We’re talking democracy, pornography, evangelicalism, the economy, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn’t mean what it used… Read more about The Great Untethering: Why Everything Feels Fake
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This week Grace and I dove deep into the messy, fascinating history of how the early church wrestled with the Holy Spirit – and let me tell you, it’s way more complicated than most of us realize. We’re talking about a time when there was no canonized New Testament, no creeds, just a bunch of… Read more about Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Before There Was a Bible & the Messy Origins of Spirit Doctrine
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If you’ve ever read the Bible and felt tension between different passages, or found yourself in conversation with another Christian only to realize there are unresolvable differences at play, then Bill Brown’s new book “?Sacred Tension?“is going to be right up your alley. Bill argues that this tension isn’t a bug in the system—it’s exactly… Read more about Bill Brown: Sacred Tension & Biblical Dialogues
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Well nerds, buckle up for this one. My buddy Ryan Burge has returned with his latest graphs about religion and the 2024 election, and let me tell you – it was zesty. We started talking about minor league baseball, chicken raising, and somehow ended up dissecting why 83% of white evangelicals voted for Trump (spoiler:… Read more about Ryan Burge: The 2024 Election & Religion Post-Mortem
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In this kickoff live session for our new class on the Holy Spirit, I’m joined by Grace Ji-Sun Kim—author of the Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit (and about 24 other spirit-focused books by her count!). We dive into some fascinating early questions about the nature of the spirit: Is it a person, principle,… Read more about Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Jumping Vatican Barriers and Chasing the Spirit
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In this episode, I am joined by your favorite theological troublemaker, Dr. Pete Enns, for a wide-ranging Q&A session where we tackle your burning questions from our SubStack communities (?Odds & Enns? and ?Process This?). We delve into everything from understanding eternal punishment in Matthew 25, to the various ways divine presence is portrayed in… Read more about Pete Enns: We Promised Above-Average Answers and We’re Sticking to It!
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Holy smokes, theology nerds – buckle up for a prophetic ride through Black Christology that’ll completely recalibrate your understanding of Jesus and faith in times of empire. I am joined by Dr. Adam Clark as he traces the revolutionary lineage from Howard Thurman’s mystical Jesus who refuses the “hounds of hell” (after being called a… Read more about Adam Clark: Black Christology from Howard Thurman to James Cone
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In this plenary session from Theology Beer Camp 2024, John Thatamanil explores the future of religious identity in an increasingly pluralistic America, arguing that multiple religious participation will be the defining feature of North American religious life. Drawing from his personal journey as an Indian Christian immigrant who also practices Hinduism, and Wilfred Cantwell Smith’s… Read more about The Future of Religious Identity: Live From Theology Beer Camp
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What happens when you stand at the crossroads where the sacred meets the secular, where your identity refuses to fit into neat binaries, and where faith seeks understanding in the midst of doubt? In this deeply personal conversation, Episcopal priest and pioneering womanist theologian Kelly Brown Douglas returns to the podcast to explore theology as… Read more about Kelly Brown Douglas: Faith at the Crossroads
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In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s to discuss Feminist Christology. We explore the importance of retrieving feminine imagery of God and Jesus through the biblical wisdom figure Sophia. She argues that despite Jesus’s historical maleness, a feminist Christological approach is essential for contemporary Christianity because it challenges 2000 years of… Read more about Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Feminist Christology
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What’s up Theology Nerds! This week on TNT, Bo and I kick things off with the breaking news about the new American Pope from Chicago (perfect timing for a Bear’s Super Bowl win?) before diving into a deep theological conversation about the future of liberal Christianity. Following last week’s rather pessimistic outlook, we explore more… Read more about Tending to Questions: A More Hopeful Future for Liberal Faith
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Today on the Rise of Bonhoeffer, we are joined by Lori Brandt Hale, Bonhoeffer scholar and president of the International Bonhoeffer Society, for a mind-expanding exploration of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological journey. Rather than just rehashing the heroic end of Bonhoeffer’s story, we dive deep into the continuous threads that run through his work – from… Read more about A Christianity Without Boundaries: Bonhoeffer’s Christ-Centered Revolution with Lori Brandt Hale
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In this thought-provoking episode, former neuroscientist-turned-Franciscan sister Ilia Delio offers a radical vision for the future of religion at ?Theology Beer Camp?. Speaking to a community of spiritual seekers, Delio places humanity within our cosmic context—mere seconds in the universe’s 13.8 billion-year story—while arguing that we are the universe becoming conscious of itself. She challenges… Read more about Ilia Delio & Pete Enns: the Future of Religion
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What’s up Theology Nerds! Today on the podcast I’m joined by my brilliant friend Diana Butler Bass for another edition of “Ruining Dinner” as we mark the first 100 days of Trump’s second administration. We dive into some fascinating new data on religion and politics in America that just dropped, examining everything from unexpected consensus… Read more about Diana Butler Bass: Religious Liberty & Violence – Unpacking the First 100 Days of Trump 2.0
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What’s up Theology Nerds! Today I’m thrilled to share my conversation with the brilliant Philip Clayton on his new book Science and the Sacred: Beyond the Gods in Our Own Image. This isn’t your typical science vs. religion debate – it’s something way more interesting! Philip co-authored this book with Claudia Pierce, an atheist religion… Read more about Philip Clayton: Science & the Sacred
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In this session, we are joined by historical theologian, Dr. Paul Capetz. Dr. Capetz, a minister in the United Methodist Church and former theology professor at various Protestant seminaries, discusses liberal Christology and its limitations. While identifying as a liberal theologian who seeks to reconcile Protestant heritage with Enlightenment thinking, Capetz argues that traditional liberal… Read more about Paul Capetz: The Two Paths of Liberal Christology
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What’s up, Theology Nerds! In this episode, Bo and I tackle the existential question: “Does Liberal Christianity Have a Future?” Spoiler alert: Bo doesn’t think it does, and his explanation involves both elevators and human eardrums! We dive into the fascinating history and predicaments of liberal theology, exploring why churches with endowed organs might be… Read more about Does Liberal Christianity Have a Future?
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In this episode, Dr. Jason Storm returns to explore the relationship between science, religion, and meaning in the modern world. Starting with Storm’s work on ?The Myth of Disenchantment?, they discuss how the conventional narrative of modernity leading to widespread secularization and loss of magical/spiritual thinking is largely inaccurate. Storm explains how this narrative emerged… Read more about Jason Storm: The Myth of Disenchantment
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