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They Love Your Questions — Just Not Your Conclusions: Tim Whitaker on Evangelicalism, Apologetics & the Sleight of Hand
May 22, 2026
1h 47m 20s
If This Is the End Times, I'll Be Your Huckleberry: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Theology
May 16, 2026
2h 13m 49s
The Hyperlink Permission: How Dispensational Eschatology Reads the Bible & Why It Gets Wild
May 8, 2026
2h 08m 13s
Big Nephilim Energy: A Field Guide
Apr 24, 2026
1h 55m 21s
Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan
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| 5/22/26 |  They Love Your Questions — Just Not Your Conclusions: Tim Whitaker on Evangelicalism, Apologetics & the Sleight of Hand | Tim Whitaker finally shows up on TNT, and I want you to know that within the first five minutes he informed us he was homeschooled and never went to college, that his biggest word is "dispensationalism," and that he is a type six on the Enneagram who doesn't know if he can trust people enough to take communion yet, and I was completely at home. Tim is the host of The New Evangelicals podcast, a former drummer in evangelical and charismatic spaces across multiple denominations, a former church planter with the Christian Missionary Alliance, and the guy who got kicked out of his evangelical church in May 2021 for asking — not even fully affirming yet, just asking — whether gay people could be welcomed. He came because Bo and I have been doing this charismatic conspiracy theology series for weeks now and Tim tracks this world the way the rest of us track the weather. He walked us through his own formation — Reformed church with hymns only, charismatic youth group with better music, Assemblies of God, a stint in Finland near the North Pole where headaches were attributed to a heavy shaman presence and a local death metal band with a statue — and somewhere in there the NAR, Peter Wagner, Lance Wallnau, Paula White, and the Cyrus anointing. We talked about where spiritual warfare practices are therapeutic and where they become political machinery, how the prophetic gift Bo had as a charismatic pastor was probably the same neurological scanning system that made him a good point guard, and what it actually costs when the values you were formed in get weaponized against the people you were taught to love. Bo told the story of his brother-in-law's Bethel satellite church in Montana that had to shut down after 2016 because every prophetic word became a Fox News talking point. Tim told the story of getting his first big boy job at a 24-hour Starbucks and discovering that the gay atheist on the overnight shift was just a normal person. Bo told his story of working security at the city library four nights a week and a gay bar three nights a week, which is not the typical preparation for evangelical ministry and was probably the best possible one. Avalon, The Blessing, CCM music production values, Elevation's Hallelujah Here Below trailer, Ecamm, a stream deck, Richard Wolff's undergrad advisor being Paul Tillich, and a benediction involving Valhalla. Raven laid an egg. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Join our upcoming online class – THE FUTURE OF RELIGION Tripp and Ilia Delio are teaming up for a brand-new four-week online class, The Future of Religion — for everyone who’s read the books, asked the questions, and realized the faith they inherited doesn’t quite fit anymore. Together they’ll trace religion’s evolutionary arc and map what’s emerging on the other side. Includes 4 video lectures, 4 live Q&As (replays available), and a community of fellow travelers. Donation-based, pay what you’re able (including $0). Live sessions start this month — register at www.thefutureofreligion.com Theology Beer Camp 2026 — The God-Podcalypse — hits Kansas City October 8–10, exactly one month before the election. Thirty scholars (Ilia Delio, Cornel West, Diana Butler Bass, Gary Dorrien, and a stack more), thirty God-pods, four post-apocalyptic stages, and the community everyone keeps telling us is the real reason they come back. Come find your people at Theology Beer Camp This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 47m 20s | ||||||
| 5/16/26 |  If This Is the End Times, I'll Be Your Huckleberry: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Theology | It's May 15th, 2026 — recording live from what Bo accurately described as Jurassic Park, because Raven the chicken was laying an egg on my thigh while we were discussing the Antichrist, and Marceline was on my back pecking my head before we hit record, and I just want you to know that this is the actual context in which serious theological work is being done. Bo opened with a high, a low, and a learn — Randy Woodley has a new book coming July 14th that you should preorder, a dust storm and semi-truck fire in Twin Falls gave Bo a terrifying glimpse of what environmental collapse looks like up close, and he discovered a group called Acts 17 that he wishes he'd never learned about. We did an either/or — Acts 17 or Acts 29, would you rather get rid of one — which turned into a genuinely useful history of hipster reformed church planting, Silicon Valley spiritual warfare birthday parties with Peter Thiel as guest preacher, and Tripp's long-gestating idea for a class on Christian philosophical theology using Acts 17 as the entry point and process, Tillichian, and radical theologies as the three lenses. Then we finally got to it. Stage four. Bo recapped the first three stages of Antichrist theology — amorphous spirit, personified figure, dispensationalist Voltron super-villain — and Tripp walked through Peter Thiel's actual biography: born in Frankfurt, childhood in a pro-Nazi enclave in what is now Namibia, Stanford student newspaper culture warrior, Girard's prize pupil, PayPal as libertarian financial liberation tool, Facebook as the memetic machine, Palantir as Minority Report for mass surveillance, the 2008 crash that turned a techno-libertarian into an authoritarian, Curtis Yarvin and the CEO monarchy, and then finally the lectures — where Thiel inverts the entire dispensationalist tradition and declares that Greta Thunberg and AI safety advocates are the legionaries of the Antichrist, that the restrainer of the apocalypse and its source are both America, and that unregulated technological acceleration is the only thing standing between us and the one-world totalitarian state. The irony — that the man building a global surveillance empire keeps warning about a global surveillance empire — did not go unremarked. Tripp named it theological shielding for unrestricted greed. Bo named it the upside down. Both are correct. Tim Whitaker of The New Evangelicals joins next week for territorial warfare. Baudrillard summer reading club is apparently in the works. Bo gave the benediction. If this is the end times, he'll be your Huckleberry. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Theology Beer Camp 2026 — The God-Podcalypse — hits Kansas City October 8–10, exactly one month before the election. Thirty scholars (Ilia Delio, Cornel West, Diana Butler Bass, Gary Dorrien, and a stack more), thirty God-pods, four post-apocalyptic stages, and the community everyone keeps telling us is the real reason they come back. Come find your people at Theology Beer Camp ONLINE CLASS - Theology for Troublemakers: Christian Social Ethics from the Margins This 6-week online course, led by Dr. Gary Dorrien and Dr. Aaron Stauffer, recovers the radical tradition of Christian social ethics — from Reverdy Ransom and Reinhold Niebuhr to James Cone and the Welfare Rights Movement — and asks what faithfulness demands of us right now. Weekly lectures, live Q&A conversations, guest lecturers, and an online community included. 💰 Donation-based — including $0 🔗 Sign up at HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 2h 13m 49s | ||||||
| 5/8/26 |  The Hyperlink Permission: How Dispensational Eschatology Reads the Bible & Why It Gets Wild✨ | Dispensational EschatologyAntichrist theology+3 | — | Eerdmans Bible DictionaryCanadian Bible College+1 | Regina, Saskatchewan | AntichristEschatology+6 | — | 2h 08m 13s | |
| 4/24/26 |  Big Nephilim Energy: A Field Guide✨ | Nephilimfallen angels+4 | — | Theology Beer Campbook of Enoch | Mount HermonBosnia+5 | Nephilimfallen angels+5 | — | 1h 55m 21s | |
| 4/17/26 |  Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan✨ | just war theoryChristian ethics+5 | Kevin Carnahan | Central Methodist UniversityJournal of the Society of Christian Ethics+3 | — | just war theoryChristian ethics+6 | — | 2h 10m 35s | |
| 4/4/26 |  The Consequences, Not the Mechanism: What the Resurrection Narratives Are Actually About✨ | resurrection narrativesHoly Week+4 | — | Balthasar | — | resurrectionHoly Week+6 | — | 2h 01m 02s | |
| 3/27/26 |  Spiritual Warfare to Spiritual Welfare: Bo's Four Stories of Reclaiming Charismatic Practice✨ | spiritual warfarecharismatic practice+3 | Bo Sanders | My Heart, Christ Home | — | spiritual welfaredemons+3 | — | 2h 04m 42s | |
| 3/20/26 |  The Two Foundation Stones Holding Up Everything You Hate About American Politics✨ | natural lawcontemporary conservatism+4 | — | Futures of Liberation TheologyWake Divinity | — | American politicsnatural law+6 | — | 2h 01m 32s | |
| 3/16/26 |  The Podcast That Wasn't Supposed to Last 18 Years & Vintage Theo-Blog War Stories✨ | theologyprocess theology+4 | Brian McLaren | Homebrew ChristianityTheology Beer Camp+1 | — | Homebrew Christianitytheology blog wars+7 | — | 1h 55m 15s | |
| 2/27/26 |  Seduced into Self-Exploitation: Liberation Theology for the Algorithmic Age✨ | liberation theologyalgorithmic age+5 | — | Five Iron FrenzyChick-fil-A+2 | — | algorithmdigital colonization+5 | — | 1h 59m 31s | |
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| 2/22/26 |  Parables, Panopticons, and Pinterest✨ | podcastingtheology+5 | — | U2 | — | podcastingtheology+8 | — | 1h 56m 31s | |
| 2/14/26 |  From the Society of Spectacle to the Filioque Clause✨ | theologyemergence+4 | — | Yale SchoolSociety of Spectacle+1 | — | theologyemergence+6 | — | 1h 51m 01s | |
| 2/6/26 |  3 Letters.? 1 Pod!✨ | theologybaptism+5 | — | — | GalileeSea of Galilee+1 | baptismtheology+6 | — | 1h 39m 26s | |
| 1/23/26 |  When Going to Church Makes It Worse: on Moral Bankruptcy of White Evangelicalism | Look, I wasn't planning on going here—Bo and I were supposed to get to our dictionary series on the B words. But then my algorithm fed me a parade of people I've loved my whole life defending an ICE agent shooting a mom three times through a window, calling her a "domestic terrorist," and I just lost it. So I wrote this piece exploring how the German church's drift into Nazi accommodation mirrors what's happening in white evangelicalism right now, and the thing blew up—50,000 extra downloads, shared over 700 times. Here's what the psychological research shows: it's not evil, it's what Bonhoeffer called "stupidity"—a surrender of inner moral independence through sequential complicity. You take that first mundane step of compliance, then you spend the rest of your life defending every compromise you made along the way. The data is damning: the more you attend a white evangelical church, the more you support Trump and resonate with Christian nationalism. Mainline Protestants? The opposite—more church attendance, less nationalism. The white American evangelicalism isn't the antidote; it's the incubator. And when my own kid says "I'm just glad we're not thatChristian," I realize the very community that taught me God loves everyone is now forming people who can read the Sermon on the Mount and treat it like an interesting suggestion. This isn't Christianity anymore. It's Christianism—and we need to jump out of this kettle before it's too late. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube. UPCOMING ONLINE LENT CLASS: Jesus in Galilee w/ John Dominic Crossan What can we actually know about Jesus of Nazareth? And, what difference does it make? This Lenten class begins where all of Dr. John Dominic Crossan's has work begins: with history. What was actually happening in Galilee in the 20s CE? What did Herod Antipas' transformation of the "Sea of Galilee" into the commercial "Sea of Tiberias" mean for peasant fishing communities? Why did Jesus emerge from John's baptism movement proclaiming God's Rule through parables—and what made that medium so perfectly suited to that message? Only by understanding what Jesus' parables meant then can we wrestle with what they might demand of us now. The class is donation-based, including 0, so join, get info, and join up here. This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 2h 00m 32s | ||||||
| 1/17/26 |  The A's Have It: Argument Culture, Adiaphora & Atonement Theories | What is up, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I kicked off our Theological Dictionary of 2026—26 letters for 26, pairing theological concepts with cultural commentary. We dove into the A's: argument culture, adiaphora, and atonement. We started with Deborah Tannen's 1997 book The Argument Culture and marveled at how she thought things were bad then—30 years before algorithms and 24-hour news cycles turned us all into gladiators. Then we explored adiaphora, that beautiful old Greek concept of "indifferent things"—matters not essential to salvation—as a potential antidote to our zero-sum cultural warfare. Tillich's wedding ring analogy made an appearance, and Bo brought the fire with Bonhoeffer's insistence that the Jewish question was absolutely not adiaphora in Nazi Germany. Context matters, folks. We landed on atonement as our test case: I want to call theories of atonement adiaphora because Scripture isn't crystal clear on mechanics, but there's this one group that insists PSA is the gospel. We unpacked six major theories, got into some Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Keith Ward, and Frank Tupper, and Bo may have gently suggested that penal substitutionary atonement is the least compelling of the bunch. Next week: B is for belonging, with baptism and bipartisan politics as our test cases. See you in Valhalla! You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Join us at Theology Beer Camp, October 8-10, in Kansas City! ONLINE CLASS: The Rise of the Nones One-third of Americans now claim no religious affiliation. That's 100 million people. But here's what most church leaders get wrong: they're not all the same. Some still believe in God. Some are actively searching. Some are quietly indifferent. Some think religion is harmful. Ryan Burge & Tony Jones have conducted the first large-scale survey of American "Nones", which reveals 4 distinct categories—each requiring a different approach. Understanding the difference could transform everything from your ministry to your own spiritual quest. Get info & join the donation-based class (including 0) here. This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 34m 09s | ||||||
| 1/9/26 |  The Courage of Yes: Consenting to a God We Cannot Grasp | So I made these slides for a talk on centering prayer and process theology, and instead of just presenting them, I sent them to Bo and we played a game where he tried to guess what I was going to say. What emerged was this really fun conversation about how centering prayer is just so different from anything most of us were taught about prayer. Like, it starts in a different place—with practice, not with what you're trying to get. It ends in a different place—communion, not transaction. It understands God differently—not a distant deity you're trying to reach, but the one in whom we already live and move and have our being. And it understands the self differently—we're not isolated individuals initiating contact with God, we're already woven into relation, already addressed before we speak. We dig into Thomas Keating, Catherine Keller, John Cobb, the Cloud of Unknowing, and how process theology makes sense of what the contemplatives have been saying all along. Bo found it both seductive and disorienting, which honestly is the best compliment I could get. And we end up talking about how this kind of prayer naturally leads to justice work and ecological responsibility, because once you dismantle the false self, you can't help but feel the suffering of others more acutely. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Join us at Theology Beer Camp, October 8-10, in Kansas City! ONLINE CLASS: The Rise of the Nones One-third of Americans now claim no religious affiliation. That's 100 million people. But here's what most church leaders get wrong: they're not all the same. Some still believe in God. Some are actively searching. Some are quietly indifferent. Some think religion is harmful. Ryan Burge & Tony Jones have conducted the first large-scale survey of American "Nones", which reveals 4 distinct categories—each requiring a different approach. Understanding the difference could transform everything from your ministry to your own spiritual quest. Get info & join the donation-based class (including 0) here. This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 2h 06m 55s | ||||||
| 12/21/25 |  No Room in the Inn: a Theology Nerd's Hallmark Christmas Story | 🎄 NO ROOM IN THE INN: A Theology Nerds Christmas Special 🎄 Last week, Tripp and Bo played Hallmark Movie Mad Libs—and things got wildly out of hand. With answers shouted out in real time (and some help from the chat), we accidentally wrote an entire progressive Christian Hallmark Christmas movie. It has everything: 🦌 A hunky taxidermist with a heart of gold ⛪ An Episcopal deacon hiding her collar from her boyfriend 🐩 A three-legged poodle named Gretzky 🍖 A food bank called "The Roadkill Cafe" 📖 Marcus Borg's The First Christmas as a plot device 🎤 A karaoke scene featuring Georgia Satellites 👶 A childhood photo of our leads as Mary and Joseph in a church pageant 🦌🚗 A tragic deer-related backstory 💔 A boyfriend who gets a little too into Jordan Peterson This week, we read the script LIVE. Grab your eggnog, settle in, and join us for No Room in the Inn—a love story about coming home, finding faith in unexpected places, and learning to take the Bible seriously without taking it literally. Will you laugh? Probably (at us). Will you cry? Maybe (not). Will you question how this all came from a Mad Libs game? Absolutely. Join us at Theology Beer Camp, October 8-10, in Kansas City! UPCOMING ONLINE CLASS: The Rise of the Nones One-third of Americans now claim no religious affiliation. That's 100 million people. But here's what most church leaders get wrong: they're not all the same. Some still believe in God. Some are actively searching. Some are quietly indifferent. Some think religion is harmful. Ryan Burge & Tony Jones have conducted the first large-scale survey of American "Nones", which reveals 4 distinct categories—each requiring a different approach. Understanding the difference could transform everything from your ministry to your own spiritual quest. Get info & join the donation-based class (including 0) here. This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 07m 27s | ||||||
| 12/13/25 |  Venison Chili, Reindeer Farms, and the Spirit of Advent | What is UP, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I got real caffeinated—or maybe it was eggnog—and let the vibes take us wherever they wanted to go. We kicked things off with some personal life updates (Bo got banished to an RV for being too large and loud at Christmas, and I'm navigating the trials of doing dishes with a teenager sleeping underneath the kitchen). Then we nerded out HARD on Christmas movie power rankings after a heated debate at my cigar lounge—Christmas Vacation took the crown, obviously, but Fellowship of the Ring is a Christmas movie and I will die on that hill. The real magic happened when we completely improvised a Hallmark Christmas movie Mad Libs-style, and let me tell you, it got WILD: we've got an Episcopal deacon named Felicia, her problematic Pfizer-rep boyfriend Ted who's getting his faith formation from Jordan Peterson, and a hunky Canadian taxidermist named Clayton who runs a reindeer farm, serves venison chili at the "Roadkill Cafe," and owns a three-legged poodle named Lucky. There's fires, no room at the inn, Georgia Satellites karaoke, and theological debates about female ordination. We wrapped up with our favorite Christmas hymns (Oh Holy Night supremacy!), Bo's discovery that contemporary Christian Christmas mashups actually slap, and the revelation that AI thinks Bo is a "kenotic scholar"—which, honestly, same. Next week: Christmas party with Kate Flynn, cigars of the year, and I'm dramatically reading our Hallmark script. Merry Advent, nerds! You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 29m 54s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 |  Taylor Swift, Bach, and the Death of Mainline Protestantism | What is up, Theology Nerds? Bo and I kicked off this week's episode from my pop-up ice fishing tent in 39-degree rain—complete with my new "professional lighting" that makes it look like I'm telling ghost stories—because that's just how we roll. We dove into our Spotify Wrapped numbers (156% audience growth, baby!). We discovered that our listeners are simultaneously jamming to Taylor Swift, Bach, and Bob Dylan while devouring Jen Hatmaker and Dan McClellan audiobooks. After a spirited throwdown over whether you should sing Christmas songs before Christmas Eve (spoiler: the liturgical fundamentalists are losing the war on Advent), Tripp unleashed an AI-generated slam poetry performance comparing process theology to Calvinism that may have broken something in all of us. Then we got into the real stuff—why so many evangelicals have never encountered liberation theology, why institutional reform feels impossible (hint: systems are designed for the outcomes they produce, not accidentally broken), and why trying to change the church from within is like sawing off the branch you're standing on from the wrong side. We wrapped with some announcements about Theology Beer Camp 2025 in Kansas City and my usual plea: read the red letters, people. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 34m 52s | ||||||
| 11/27/25 | The Hour of Gratefulness | Here's our Thanksgiving episode with some vital jazzercise energy and a whole lot of carnitas-shaking—you're welcome for that visual. But then we got into the real stuff: like how exhausting it is when every single day brings another thing that would've ended any other administration, and how our outrage sensors are so fried we might miss the moment things shift from "different in degree" to "different in kind." We talked about ICE raids emptying classrooms and what it means to show up for our neighbors. But since Bo told me we had to do gratitude, we pivoted to the stuff that fills us up—mentors who shaped us, the regulars who show up in the chat every week, and the beautiful weirdos at Theology Beer Camp. I shared how the homebrewed grannies became a spontaneous hug ministry for folks returning to church after being hurt, and honestly, my eyes watered while reading about it. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 36m 20s | ||||||
| 11/17/25 |  Blood, Wounds, and Watch Words: A Deep Dive into Radical Moravian Theology | What a fun convo! Bo and I were joined by Rev. Dr. Chaz Snider, a Moravian Minister and Radical Theologian for some nerdy goodness. We started with something that's been keeping me up at night: the dangerous decoupling of Jewish identity from Israeli identity in certain conservative circles, and how this might unleash a kind of naked antisemitism we haven't seen in over a century. From there, we dove deep into Moravian theology with my friend Chaz, who just defended his dissertation on Zinzendorf and radical theology. We explored everything from the wounds of Christ to ecumenical mysticism, talked about how the Moravians survived centuries of violence as a peace church, and wrestled with what it means to maintain radical faith in a world that wants you to conform. Plus, we touched on American-style racism versus European ethno-nationalism, the problem with identity politics outside a liberal framework, and why the Moravian daily texts might just be the devotional practice we all need right now. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 58m 21s | ||||||
| 11/10/25 |  Truck Stops Without Trucks & Churches Without Christians | Well folks, we started off talking about Bucky's (the truck stop that doesn't allow trucks - make it make sense), but then things got real when I shared about this secret squirrel meeting I went to about combating white Christian nationalism in Idaho. Bo and I went deep on religious pluralism, why evangelicals suddenly love Mormons when they run for president, and how my Muslim friend made me a better Christian dad during lockdown. We also covered the wild story about Kentuckians trying to vote in an election that didn't exist (they really wanted to vote against Mondaire), Trump flags mysteriously disappearing from Bo's neighborhood after some military comments, and somehow ended up talking about 98 Degrees doing cover songs because they ran out of their own hits. Yeah, it's a ramble-fest, but that's what you're here for, right? See you in Valhalla, brother. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 59m 07s | ||||||
| 11/3/25 |  Why Your 'Biblical' Christianity Might Just Be Colonial Nonsense | Wow, this episode was a wild ride! Bo and I kicked things off recapping the absolute magic that was Theology Beer Camp in St. Paul - seriously, the energy this year was different, more connected, more like a family reunion of podcast nerds day-drinking and talking theology. Then we dove into what really gets my blood boiling: this whole restorationist fantasy that we can just skip over 2,000 years of church history and get back to some "pure" Christianity. Like, have these folks even read Acts? The whole book is basically the Holy Spirit dragging the apostles kicking and screaming into a bigger vision than they ever imagined! We talked about how the church has evolved on huge issues - slavery being the prime example - and how claiming "the Bible clearly says" usually means you're about to ignore how the Spirit has been moving. The conversation got pretty heated when we discussed how American Christianity often can't tell the difference between its own cultural agenda and God's actual mission. Oh, and apparently Pope Francis is getting dangerously close to endorsing liberation theology, which honestly, about time! You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Sign up HERE to stay up to date on Theology Beer Camp 2026 & get EARLY ACCESS to the cheapest tickets. UPCOMING ONLINE ADVENT CLASS w/ Diana Butler Bass Join us for a transformative four-week Advent journey exploring how the four gospels speak their own revolutionary word against empire—both in their ancient context under Roman occupation and for our contemporary world shaped by capitalism, militarism, and nationalism. Advent marks the beginning of the church year—an invitation to step out of the empire's time and into God's time, where the last are first, the mighty are scattered, and a child born in occupied territory changes everything. This course invites you into an alternative calendar and rhythm. While our modern world races through December toward consumption and productivity, Advent calls us to a different time—a counter-imperial waiting, a subversive hope, a radical reimagining of how God enters the world. What will we experience? Each week, we'll hear one gospel's unique vision of the birth narrative, allowing Matthew, Luke, John, and Mark to speak in their own voices about what it means for God to show up when empires think they're in control. We'll discover how these ancient texts of resistance offer wisdom for our own moment of political turmoil, economic inequality, and ecological crisis. This class is donation-based, including 0. You can sign-up at www.HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 70,000other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 43m 01s | ||||||
| 10/7/25 |  The One Where We Tried Something New and It Mostly Worked | We opened up the Zoom room and let listeners bring whatever questions they wanted, which turned into one of those sprawling conversations that goes from Karl Popper's tolerance paradox to the unique trauma of rapture theology to whether algae-filled church toilets are connected to the hot water line. Josh Patterson kicked us off asking about progressive intolerance, which led Bo to brilliantly distinguish between liberalism and liberation. We got into how algorithms are making us all more ideologically rigid, why trans identity seems to be the sticky wicket for some progressives, and how cultural context is basically non-negotiable for reading scripture well. Bo told war stories from the 1994 rapture predictions, I shared the origin story of The Road to Edmond film, and we gave Julian some real talk about finding your lane in ministry. Plus: Lord of the Rings rapid-fire questions, the purpose of eight-foot paper mache Jesus heads, and Bo's benediction about cold toilet water. You know, normal theology podcast stuff. ONLINE CLASS - The God of Justice: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Contemporary Longing This transformative online class brings together distinguished scholars from biblical studies, theology, history, and faith leadership to offer exactly what our moment demands: the rich, textured wisdom of multiple academic disciplines speaking into our contemporary quest for justice. Join John Dominic Crossan, Peter Enns, Casey Sigmon, Aizaiah Yong, & Malcolm Foley As always, the class is donation-based, including 0. INFO & Sign-Up at www.FaithAndPolitics.net Theology Beer Camp is a unique three-day conference that brings together of theology nerds and craft beer for a blend of intellectual engagement, community building, and fun. Guests this year include John Dominic Crossan, Kelly Brown Douglas, Philip Clayton, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Jeffery Pugh, Juan Floyd-Thomas, Andy Root, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Noreen Herzfeld, Reggie Williams, Casper ter Kuile, and more! Get info and tickets here. _____________________ This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 49m 31s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 |  Against Empathy: When Christians Declare Compassion a Vice | Bo and I dive deep into a controversial AP article about Christian conservatives declaring empathy a vice - yeah, you heard that right. We unpack how figures like Ali Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney are arguing that empathy has become a "cudgel for the left," leading Christians to affirm sin and support destructive policies. But here's where it gets interesting: Bo thinks this whole anti-empathy movement is actually a smokescreen for deeper issues around personal versus structural sin, and how progressive and conservative Christians are operating with completely non-overlapping theological frameworks. We explore how politics has gotten upstream of religion, the role of floating signifiers that muddy genuine dialogue, and why both sides seem to be talking past each other on everything from immigration to school lunches. Plus, I share some wild stories from the New England Cigar Expo (including knight fighting - seriously), and we announce some exciting changes coming to Theology Beer Camp 2025, including pre-recorded lectures and liter steins for the presenters. Spoiler alert: by the end, Bo's feeling like a deflated balloon about the state of American discourse, and honestly, I don't blame him. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube ONLINE CLASS - The God of Justice: Where Ancient Wisdom Meets Contemporary Longing This transformative online class brings together distinguished scholars from biblical studies, theology, history, and faith leadership to offer exactly what our moment demands: the rich, textured wisdom of multiple academic disciplines speaking into our contemporary quest for justice. Join John Dominic Crossan, Peter Enns, Casey Sigmon, Aizaiah Yong, & Malcolm Foley As always, the class is donation-based, including 0. INFO & Sign-Up at www.FaithAndPolitics.net Theology Beer Camp is a unique three-day conference that brings together of theology nerds and craft beer for a blend of intellectual engagement, community building, and fun. Guests this year include John Dominic Crossan, Kelly Brown Douglas, Philip Clayton, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Jeffery Pugh, Juan Floyd-Thomas, Andy Root, Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Noreen Herzfeld, Reggie Williams, Casper ter Kuile, and more! Get info and tickets here. _____________________ This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 46m 55s | ||||||
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