Tripp Fuller

One of our favorite theology nerds – author J.R. Daniel Kirk drops by the HBC Headquarters for an Easter style Throwdown. This was recorded last year and placed in the cellar to age. What you are about to enjoy is some vintage goodness! Kirk is the author of Jesus have I love but Paul? and he blogs at Storied Theology.  This is his third  visit to the podcast - and he talked with us at Wild Goose West.    WARNING: if you are going to call in a response to the Easter Call-In Challenge, do so before listening Kirk!  

Happy Birthday!  HomeBrewed is celebrating its 5th and BoDaddy is celebrating his 40th! Subscribe on iTunes Here! On this episode of the Theology Nerd Throw-down,  Tripp and Bo talk about same-sex marriage, Rob Bell and his detractors. This all started when Tripp posted about big platforms coming out in support. Then Bo posted about Rob and his detractors. It came to a head when Bo responded to an odd post about how this paints Jesus in a weird light. You will have to listen to the hour long conversation to put all the pieces together.   At the end – we talk about this Summer’s book series called “High Gravity” with Peter Rollins.

What happens when a philosopher interviews a scientist about energy?  I am not gonna tell you but you can listen!  Clayton Crockett, c0-author of The New Materialism, interviews Kevin Mequet about the pivotal scientific concepts in the book.  This episode is a follow-up to Clayton’s partner in publishing, Jeffrey Robbins, recent interview on Radical Theology and Politics.  It is also a little taster for the upcoming blog tour on their book. You can also check out Clayton’s previous visit to the podcast where we discussed theology and politics. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

This week’s guest is Dave Palmer, a marketing expert at Dunk Tank Marketing, to talk about The Great American Bible Challenge (which is entering it’s second season on the Game Show Network), and why progressives are reluctant to appear on a show requiring Bible knowledge. He also discusses the challenge of marketing to Christians overall. In the Echo Chamber, Christian and I discuss Rob Bell’s announcement that he’s okay with gay marriage, which should come as no surprise. Later, they talk about the sordid Steubenville rape case, which turns into a debate over the definition of rape. Later, I recommend Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods, and Christian is digging the Netflix original series, House of Cards. This turns into a discussion about the Golden Age of Television, which is one of my favorite topics. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

Jordan and Christian are finally back together after weeks of travel, and they catch us up on their adventures, including why Christian nearly lost hist sanity trying to park his car in Mexico. They talk with Chris Baker of Ink 180 Tattoos about his tattoo ministry with former gang members and sex workers. His story is inspiring and is helpful for anyone trying to figure out what God is calling them to do in life. In the Echo Chamber, they talk about a story where a woman kills her Child, suffocating her by stuffing roses down her throat during an exorcism, and gets away with it, and they consider a teen’s story about why God made her have a car accident. Pretty much your standard CultureCast fare: sensationalist, dramatic and all over the place. Nothing but class, y’all.

 It’s the 5th Birthday of the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast! The past 5 years have been packed full of great conversations, new ideas, and getting to connect with a ton of you, the HBC Deacons.  I am thrilled to still be rocking the podcast and bringing you some audiological ingredients for brewing your own tasty theology. This week we are joined for this birthday party by one of the 3 JC’s of the HBC.  We are working on Jesus Christ for episode 777 & had John Cobb for episode 101 so that leaves Jack Caputo for this milestone. Caputo has given us an introduction to Radical Theology!  His first,  second, and third visit rocked the podcast. He shared the main-stage fun from Soularize and the 3D event with Philip Clayton, Jay Bakker, and Peter Rollins.  Even more exciting are these class lectures Caputo is sharing here at HBC.  These lectures are free theological cat nip for theology nerds.   With all this free stuff you should be wise and go pre-order his new book NOW! This Stud Sponsored the Podcast!  This episode is sponsored by Jason Micheli over at the Tamed Cynic.  Go check him out and thank him for keep the show running! Don’t forget to come see Caputo, Bo and I at Subverting the Norm in April! I got 7 great reasons you should join us. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

Steve Knight of SoGo Media pays a visit to the HBC Headquarters for a TNT worthy of the ‘throw-down’ moniker. We (mostly) talk about: Atheism for Lent What is ‘Missional’? Why White Guys care about Diversity and we tell a couple of stories to close You can find SoGo Media and their awesome array of videos here. You can connect to Steve Knight via his Twitter account @knightopia to keep up with all of the happenings in his multi-faceted universe. We also want to thank Epic Brewing for sponsoring the evening. You can find the Mumford -Music Industry blog post that was referenced [here] 

Integral Philosophy has come up a few times on Homebrewed Christianity.  A bunch of friends of the show have dabbled in it including Brian McLaren, Richard Rohr, Shane Hipps, and Rob Bell & the Deaconate have asked repeatedly “what’s an Integral?”  Well the wait is over.  Steve McIntosh, an Integral philosopher and Jesusonian (follower of Jesus), is here to introduce you to the ideas and how it could connect with the teachings of Jesus. After going over some of the ‘big ideas’ Steve attempts to demonstrate the usefulness of the philosophy by tackling a couple present predicaments – Global Climate Change & Political Partisanship.  As part of a new think tank Steve is working to use his theory to change our practice as a species to one that is more hospitable to the planet and our neighbors.  For more details on this work check out The Institute for Cultural Evolution. Steve recently introduced Integral on a guest blog, Deacon Tony Jones responded and then Steve gave a holla back.

Jordan took his family to Disneyland this week, so Christian recruited his wife, Rev. Amy Piatt to co-host. They act pretty much like what you’d expect a married couple hosting a radio show together to act like, so that’s kind of entertaining in itself. Then, after interviewing Shannon Moore, a Christian minister in Texas who has been denied ordination for a decade for being out about his sexual orientation, Christian promptly deleted the interview by accident (sorry Shannon!). WE’ll have Shannon back on soon, but for this week, we’re sharing an interview Christian did with Welton Gaddy on State of Belief Radio about a Washington Post piece Christian wrote called “Don’t Call Us the Nones: In Praise of Religious Independence.” Christian explains why the phrase “The Nones,” referring to religiously unaffiliated people, smacks of the dying remnants of Christendom in our culture: a cultural dynamic we’d do better without, thanks. Then Amy and Christian tackle Olympian-turned-killer Oscar Pistorius in the Echo chamber, along with Tim Tebow’s recent refusal to speak at a prominent Dallas Baptist Church. From there, the conversation moves into family values and gender roles, taking a look at Phyllis Tickle and some blowback she’s gotten for claims that changing gender roles have negatively affected communities of faith and family as a whole. Finally, Christian asks Amy why so many women like The League, a TV show about men in a fantasy football league. Basically her conclusion is that women find pleasure in watching men be idiots and tear each other down. So we’ve got that going for us.

Slave Free Earth Co-founder Will Henderson stops by HBC Headquarters for throw-down about human trafficking, global sex slavery and emerging as a progressive.  It is an explosive conversation. You can join the  Slave Fee Community at SlaveFreeEath.com and pledge to be a 7 community member. Cathy and Will Henderson were on the HBC podcast last Fall. They are both deacons and ongoing sponsors of the podcast!   If you are interested in the issue of  human trafficking – make sure to get our interview here and read this survivor story.   This episode is sponsored by the Subverting the Norm Conference 2 in Springfield Missouri April 5th and 6th. Thanks to both Drury University and Phillips Theological Seminary for sponsoring the conference and making it the most affordable two-day event of the year. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

Brace yourself!    Jeffrey Robbins is all about the New Materialism and he is going to knock your socks off!  Tripp gets to chat with the co-author of the book “Religion, Politics and the Earth“ (along with pod favorite Clayton Crockett) that is making its way around the inter-webs in preparation for the Subverting the Norm Conference – April 5 & 6 in Springfield, Missouri. We will be linking here to all of the posts from the New Materialism blog-tour.   This episode is sponsored by the Subverting the Norm Conference 2 in Springfield Missouri April 5th and 6th. Thanks to both Drury University and Phillips Theological Seminary for sponsoring the conference and making it the most affordable two-day event of the year. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

This week, Jordan and Christian go way outside of their sphere of personal experience and into the world of white folks. Specifically, we chat it up with author and screenwriter Christian Lander, best known for his bestselling book, “Stuff White People Like.” We talk about white privilege, why humor is sometimes the best tool for getting at difficult truths and why so many knockoff versions of his meme have been, well, let’s say not as good as the original. We also do a recap of the Christopher Dorner story, the rogue Los Angeles cop who went on a killing spree and got caught in a cabin up in the woods east of LA. We do some analysis of Zero Dark Thirty, one of the most celebrated and controversial films of 2012, and then we cover the newsworthy bits from the President’s State of the Union address (Christian) and have a look back at what was worth watching at the Grammys (Jordan). Oh, and although we’re not technically part of the Catholic College of Cardinals, we toss in our two cents about who should be the next Pope. Because, yaknow, what we think on this matters to the Vatican and stuff. We close out with a heartfelt farewell for Richard Twiss, a great man and an inspiring spirit who we lost far too soon. Peace, Richard.

Tony Kriz, author of Neighbors and Wisemen gives Bo a tour around his neighborhood as he talks about the power of story, redemption, God’s good news and the art of listening. We hope that you will pick up the book and join in as we make our way through the chapters of Neighbors and Wisemen every weekday of Lent. Tony has an amazing ability to weave story and insight into an engaging read that gets to the heart of the matter without being preachy. You can also find an Kindle version and an Audible Mp3 version  This episode is sponsored by the Subverting the Norm Conference 2 in Springfield Missouri April 5th and 6th. Thanks to both Drury University and Phillips Theological Seminary for sponsoring the conference and making it the most affordable two-day event of the year. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!*** Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!

After hearing an anecdote about Christian’s massive parenting fail (which cost him $75), we welcome our guest, Ian Ebright, a contributor to Relevant Magazine and Red Letter Christians, and founder of Broken Telegraph. He is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for From the Sky, a film on the Christian perspective of drone warfare, so he’s an expert on the subject, and brings a balanced perspective to the issue. Well worth a lesson if you’re interested in America’s foreign policy, or wars, or the future, in which our robot overloads control the skies. In the Echo Chamber, we discuss the LAPD’s crazy rogue cop. Not to brag or anything, but according to reports, I’m a better shot than the guy. In Recommendations, I promote FX’s The Americans and the return of Community, and Christian talks up one of my favorites: The League, which is surprisingly appealing to the women in our lives.  

What do you get when you ask 3 theology nerds “what does the church and the Occupy movement have to do with each other?”  - 3 different answers. Friends of the podcast – Jeremy Fackenthal, Kirsten Gerdes and the Dean Philip Clayton each respond to the challenge that Occupy provides the church. This is the 2nd half of a session at last year’s AAR gathering in Chicago. You can hear the first half here.  ____________ Remember: Easter comes early this year so Lent starts on February 13. Bo will be blogging through the book Neighbors and Wisemen every weekday through the Lenten Journey.  Come and join the conversation! This episode is sponsored by the Subverting the Norm Conference 2 in Springfield Missouri April 5th and 6th. Thanks to both Drury University and Phillips Theological Seminary for sponsoring the conference and making it the most affordable two-day event of the year. *** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***   Subscribe on iTunes Here! Subscribe on iTunes! Subscribe on iTunes Here!