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Homebrewed Christianity
Our goal is to bring the wisdom of the academy's ivory tower into your earbuds. Think of each episode as an audiological ingredient for your to brew your own faith. Most episodes center around an interview with a different scholar, theologian, or philosopher.
Episodes
Homebrewed ChristianityAdventures in the Spirit: Building a New Architecture for Christian Doctrine w/ Philip Clayton
Philip Clayton has been one of the most important conversation partners in my theological life — we literally worked out some of this stuff together at…
Homebrewed ChristianityWhat God Do They Worship In There? The Black Social Gospel and the Crisis of American Christianity w/ Gary Dorrien
In this episode, theologian and historian Gary Dorrien opens Theology for Troublemakers by recovering two of the most important — and most forgotten — figures…
Homebrewed ChristianityEaster Against the Empire: Faith in a Time of War
In this final Q&A for our Jesus of Galilee series, I sat down with Dom Crosson to connect the dots between the hills of Galilee and the high-stakes political…
Homebrewed ChristianityGiving the Beast a Stomach Ache: A Peacemaker's Starter Kit for a Time of War
Okay, so confession: my kids had just gone to bed when we started this one, and honestly, the timing felt about right — because this conversation with Jarrod…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Sin Is White Supremacy: a Theological Encounter with the Film “Sinners"
What is the sin in Sinners? — and then four of the most brilliant theologians working today spent an hour doing what great theologians do: they cracked the…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Medium Is the Message — Crossan on Parables, Provocation, and the Pedagogy of Jesus
This is the fourth live Q&A from the Jesus and Galilee class with John Dominic Crossan — recorded, appropriately, on St. Patrick's Day, which means Dom is…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Person, Not the Principle: How Bonhoeffer’s Christology Became Treason — and What Eric Metaxas Did With It
This is an audio essay from Process This, my Substack — head over there if you want more essays like this one, and subscribe if you want them delivered to you…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Reason Prayer Feels Impossible (And It's Not Your Fault) w/ Wes Ellis
Okay, so here's a question that sounds simple until it isn't: why is prayer so hard? Not hard like "I need a better technique" hard — hard like something has…
Homebrewed ChristianityTradition Without Traction Is Lame: An enclosed lake and a constitutional crisis w/ John Dominic Crossan
In this week's live Q&A, John Dominic Crossan takes questions from over 2,000 students in the Lenten class — and the questions are so good that even Dom says…
Homebrewed ChristianityBeer in the Temple? & What the Bible Actually Says About Alcohol w/ John Anthony Dunne
Okay, so most Christians have been handed exactly one question about alcohol — is it okay? — and look, I get it, but what if that question is not just too…
Homebrewed ChristianityFlying Saucers, Deep Incarnation, and the Covered Dish Dinner: Astro Theology with Ted Peters
What happens when a Lutheran theologian who grew up reading UFO books and whose parents followed a Venusian contactee cult becomes one of the most rigorous…
Homebrewed ChristianityAre We Waiting for God, or Is God Waiting for Us? with John Dominic Crossan
In this second live Q&A of our Lent 2025 series Jesus in Galilee, Dom works through nearly 40 questions from the more than 2,000 people in the class — and Dom…
Homebrewed ChristianityMAGA and the Post-Christian America: A Meditation on Power, the Cross, and the World We're Choosing
In this audio essay from my SubStack ,Process This, I take Stephen Miller's claim that the "real world" is governed by strength and force and use it as a…
Homebrewed ChristianityWhat Would God's State of the Union Look Like? with John Dominic Crossan
In this first live Q&A of our Lent 2025 series Jesus in Galilee, Dom and I work through 35 questions from the more than 2,000 people who have joined the…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Universe Is Alive and It Might Be Looking Back: Andrew Davis on Astrotheology
My buddy Andrew Davis is back on the pod, and this time we're talking about aliens — yes, that kind. Andrew is a process philosopher who's been publishing…
Homebrewed ChristianityTheses on Reactionaries: How White Evangelicalism Became America's Most Dangerous Ideology with Tad Delay
Philosopher and religion scholar Tad DeLay (author of Future of Denial) drops a guest essay on us this week, and it's a barn-burner. Tad brings together…
Homebrewed ChristianityKeeping Hope Alive: A Conversation with Rev. Jesse Jackson
We lost a giant. Reverend Jesse Jackson has passed away, and I wanted to share this conversation we had with him back during lockdown in 2020 as part of the…
Homebrewed ChristianityFrom Conflict to Collaboration: The Science-Religion Conversation We Need with Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund
The conflict between science and religion? Turns out it's mostly a myth perpetuated by a handful of really loud voices on both sides. Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund…
Homebrewed ChristianityToo Fast, Too Furious for Jesus: Justin Lin on Last Days
My friend and filmmaker Sarey Concepción and I got to sit down with Justin Lin — yeah, that Justin Lin, the Fast and Furious guy — but this time he's not…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Cloud and the Kingdom: Discerning the Spirits of a New Economic Epoch
I don't remember who first told me to read Yanis Varoufakis's Techno-Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism, but whoever you are—thank you and also how dare you…
Homebrewed ChristianitySteve Bannon Is Not an Idiot: Reinhold Niebuhr's Unheeded Advice for a Democracy in Crisis
This is an audio essay from my Substack, Process This. Look, I wasn't planning to write 5,000 words on Steve Bannon, but then he goes on his podcast and…
Homebrewed ChristianityWhen Neighbors Turn on Neighbors with Miroslav Volf
What happens when our obsession with being better than everyone else destroys both who we are and how we relate to each other? Dr. Miroslav Volf joins us to…
Homebrewed ChristianityCheap Grace in a Red Hat, Stealing Bonhoeffer’s Fire: What Bonhoeffer Actually Meant—and Why It Condemns His Admirers
Friends, this week we're diving into something that's been eating at me for a while now—how the architects of Christian nationalism have had the audacity to…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Bible and the Cosmos: Which Story Comes First? with Dom Crossan & Phil Clayton
So Dom Crossan (JC) and Philip Clayton (PC) came together for this conversation I've been hoping would happen for a year and a half, and it was everything I…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Exhausted Soul and a World Gone Mute: The Economy That Ate Your Soul and Wants to Blame You
Okay, so you know that bone-deep exhaustion you feel? That sense that no matter how hard you run, you're still falling behind? What if I told you that's not a…
Homebrewed ChristianityA Tale of Two Gods: Why C.S. Lewis's Famous Argument Falls Apart with John Dominic Crossan
In this preview for our upcoming Lent class, Jesus in Galilee, John Dominic Crossan dives into what he calls "A Tale of Two Gods"—Caesar and Christ. He takes…
Homebrewed ChristianityWhy Postliberals Want Authoritarian Power (And What to Do About It) with David Congdon
David Congdon came on to talk about his lecture from the Democracy in Tension summit, and man, did we get into it. We're unpacking what liberalism actually…
Homebrewed ChristianityBurnout, Burn Up, Burn It Down: Hartmut Rosa's Diagnosis of Modern Life
What is up, Theology Nerds! This week I'm joined by my buddy Matthew Segall from the Footnotes to Plato Substack to announce something exciting: we're doing a…
Homebrewed ChristianityBonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: the Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism
This is an audio essay from my SubStack, Process This. You can head over here to read or watch the entire essay. I grew up as a Baptist church planter's…
Homebrewed ChristianityPracticing Love Without Being Naive About Power with Marvin Wickware
Marvin Wickware came on to talk about his lecture from the Democracy in Tension summit and his book Loving Through Enmity, and we got into some really…
Homebrewed ChristianityPaul Tillich's Socialist Decision and the Crisis of American Christianity
This is an audio essay from my SubStack, Process This. You can head over here to read or watch the entire essay. In this episode, we explore Paul Tillich's…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Four Faces of "None": What the Largest Study of Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Reveals
In this first session of "The Rise of the Nones" online class, I am joined by Ryan Burge, Tony Jones, and Sarah Lane Ritchie to introduce findings from the…
Homebrewed ChristianityFrom Philosopher Kings to Billionaire Oligarchs with Tad Delay
Tad Delay came on to talk about his lecture from the Democracy in Tension summit, and we got into political philosophy and why democracy keeps sliding toward…
Homebrewed ChristianityAI & Theology
This conversation took place at Theology Beer Camp 2025 on artificial intelligence, moderated by Michael Morelli with Ben Chicka and Noreen Herzfield, and it's…
Homebrewed ChristianityHigh-Friction Love: The Incarnation in an Age of Smooth Technology
Hey everybody, this is a special Christmas episode where I'm joined by Michael Morelli (Personalist Manifesto podcast) and Paul Hoard (professor at The Seattle…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Great Disconnect: When the Pulpit and the Pew aren't Speaking the Same Language
What happens when the person preaching on Sunday morning believes something completely different than the folks sitting in the pews? Well friends, that's…
Homebrewed ChristianityRian Johnson on Wake Up Dead Man – Murder, Mystery, and the Search for Grace
I am SO excited about this episode. I got to sit down with Rian Johnson to talk about Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, and honestly? This might be my…
Homebrewed ChristianityBooks for Your Friendly Neighborhood Theology Nerd
Look, we all have that person in our life who won’t stop talking about Motlmann or keeps “accidentally” bringing up liberation theology at Thanksgiving. Maybe…
Homebrewed ChristianityFrom Garden to New Jerusalem: Why the Church's Economic Blindness Matters
So here's what we're wrestling with in this episode: What if economics isn't just a topic theology comments on, but actually the bigger framework that shapes…
Homebrewed ChristianityBonhoeffer’s Witness Against Christian Nationalism
What is up, Theology Nerds! This one's a banger. At Theology Beer Camp 2025, I got to sit down with an EPIC braintrust of Bonhoeffer scholars—Jeff Pugh, Lori…
Homebrewed ChristianityWhen Empire Strikes Back: Herod, the Magi, and Holy Resistance
Well, we kicked off our Advent Against Empire series with Diana Butler Bass diving deep into Matthew's birth narrative, and wow—it did not disappoint. Diana…
Homebrewed ChristianityNT Wright on Ephesians: The Church as a Small Working Model of New Creation
N.T. Wright returns to the podcast for round three—no Malibu rooftop this time, but plenty of theological fireworks. We dig into Tom's new book on Ephesians…
Homebrewed ChristianityTolkien & Trump: The Professor or the Profligate with Dr. Craig Boyd
Alright Tolkien Heads, this one's important. Dr. Craig Boyd joins us to dig into Tolkien's political philosophy and—look, we gotta talk about how the alt-right…
Homebrewed ChristianityFinding Our Way Forward: How Whitehead Shows Us Religion as Life's Creative Force
This is an audio essay from my Process This substack. In it, I reflect on Alfred North Whitehead and what he can teach us about religion in our time. You see…
Homebrewed ChristianityHow the Lectionary Kept Me Christian: Diana Butler Bass on Practicing the Year
What is up, Theology Nerds! So this episode we got my friend Diana Butler Bass back in the house to talk about her brand new book A Beautiful Year and this…
Homebrewed ChristianityCommunity Over Cops: Building Justice from the Ground Up with Ross Halperin
On today's episode, we're talking with investigative journalist Ross Halperin about his new book Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land. Ross…
Homebrewed ChristianityIs America Possible? with Corey Walker & Bill Leonard
Hey Theology Nerds! On this episode, we're wrestling with one of those questions that'll mess with your theology AND your politics - Vincent Harding's knockout…
Homebrewed ChristianityThe Infancy Gospel of Thomas on the Big Screen
Wow, do we have a conversation for you! My filmmaker-theologian friend Sarey Martin Concepción and I sat down with director Lofty Nathan about his wild new…
Homebrewed ChristianityTwo Books, One Night: Finding Beauty in What We Can't Control with Diana Butler Bass & Andy and Kara Root
Hey Theology Nerds! What an absolute banger of an episode we've got for you - two live conversations straight from the wild and wonderful chaos of Theology…
Homebrewed ChristianityReligion in the Making: Where Evolution Turns Up the Volume on Value
Hey friends! In this introductory session for our "Religion in the Making" reading group, Andrew Davis and I dive into why Whitehead's 1926 lectures are the…
Homebrewed ChristianityAn Adventure in Ideas: Discovering Whitehead's "Religion in the Making"
In this audio essay, I explore why Alfred North Whitehead's "Religion in the Making" might be exactly what we need in 2025—especially if you're someone who's…
Homebrewed ChristianityTheology Beer Camp All-Stars Unite!!
Join me and the Theology Beer Camp All-Stars as we debrief the beautiful chaos that was camp this year! We're talking 600 people, ages 8 to 96, with highlights…
Homebrewed ChristianityNatalie Wigg-Stevenson: Memory Loss, Rain Dancing, and Making Meaning
Wow, this conversation with Natalie was something else - one of those episodes where you start talking about a brain injury from cleaning a closet (seriously…
Homebrewed ChristianityCasey Sigmon: Agonistic Encounters, Holy Friction, and Real Worship
Casey Sigmon joined Tim and me to wrestle with worship, justice, and what happens when we think liturgy is just the music on Sunday morning instead of the…
Homebrewed ChristianityFound Solidarity: How the Working Class Made Social Christianity with Heath Carter
This was a conversation with Heath Carter, historian and author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago. Heath walked us…
Homebrewed ChristianityReparations, Violence, and Peacemaking: An Honest Conversation with Drew Hart
Drew Hart joined me to dig into questions from our God of Justice class about his lecture on the black church and American experience. We covered a lot of…
Homebrewed ChristianityYou Can't Serve God and Mammon: Malcolm Foley on Greed, Racism, and the Gospel
This conversation was a wild ride through some of the most challenging questions facing progressive Christians today. Malcolm Foley—reverend, scholar, and…
Homebrewed ChristianityCynthia Moe-Lobeda: Saints, Sinners, & Supply Chains: Living Faithfully in Economic Webs
I had an incredible conversation with Cynthia Moe-Lobeda about her book Building a Moral Economy (the first in a six-book series!). We dug into how most…
Homebrewed ChristianityRyan Duns: From Jaws to K-Pop Demon Hunters: How Horror Films Reveal the Sacred
Ryan Duns is back on the podcast to talk about his provocative new book exploring horror and theology, and boy does he deliver some counterintuitive insights…
Homebrewed ChristianityFour Questions About AI That Will Keep You Up at Night w/ Noreen Herzfeld | Theology Beer Camp 2025
Computer scientist turned theologian Dr. Noreen Herzfeld tackles the most pressing questions about artificial intelligence through a theological lens. As we…