Tripp Fuller

Carlos J. Correa Bernier is Director of the Romero Center. He sits down with Deacon Stephen Keating to talk about human trafficking and issues related to the border. Go to www.theromerocenter.org for more information and to connect with their many programs and resources. Centro Romero,located in San Ysidro, California, less than 20 minutes from the Mexican border city of Tijuana, is one of the Centers for Education and Social Transformation, a concept created at the Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ  in 2005. The Daniel F. Romero Center for Border Ministries was envisioned as a Justice and Witness Ministries of the United Church of Christ. Stephen Keating blogged about his experience this summer (Hell On Earth: A Sex Trafficking Survivor’s Story) and it continues to daily be the most searched for blog of the year. He is on twitter as @stephenmk  This episode is sponsored by Slave Free Earth – they are asking the deacons to join them in ending human trafficking and specifically sex slavery. Go to SlaveFreeEarth.com and join the 7 Community. Pledge to: Pray 7 minutes a week Give 7 dollars a month Challenge 7 people a year to join Send us the confirmation email of your joining and we will give you a shout out on the podcast – send up a question with that email and we will respond to it on the next TNT podcast. Donations are tax deductible. *** 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!

Over 50 different HBC Deacons have answered the call.  They responded to the John 14:6 Challenge & now Bo and I get to Nerd Out with some of your calls!  It was a ton of fun to interact with you all and we will be looking forward to more interactive fun in the near future. The release of Brian McLaren’s new book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?: Christian Identity in a Multi-Faith World  and our subsequent live event with him at Wild Goose West (audio here) got the ball rolling.  Then when Brian’s new publisher Jericho Books who hooked us up with some promotional copies we decided to open the mic up to y’all. Bo has been blogging as we received the calls.  First he proposed an alternative reading to John 14:6 & now he is trying to get rid of Salvation altogether (sarcasm!). At the conclusion of the podcast Bo started talking Christological smack so soon and very soon I will be leading Bo high up the Christological mountain where the divine Logos & Sophia make sweet eternal symmetry. This episode is sponsored by Slave Free Earth – they are asking the deacons to join them in ending human trafficking and specifically sex slavery. Go to SlaveFreeEarth.com and join the 7 Community. Pledge to: Pray 7 minutes a week Give 7 dollars a month Challenge 7 people a year to join Send us the confirmation email of your joining and we will give you a shout out on the podcast – send up a question with that email and we will respond to it on the next TNT podcast. Donations are tax deductible. *** 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!

Walter Brueggemann – legendary Hebrew Bible scholar – is back on the podcast! His books include The Prophetic Imagination (now in 2nd edition), Praying the Psalms and Journey to the Common Good (among so many others) are treasured as indispensable resources for students of Scripture. This episode is sponsored by Slave Free Earth – they are asking the deacons to join them in ending human trafficking and specifically sex slavery.  Go to SlaveFreeEarth.com  and join the 7 Community. Pleadge to: Pray 7 minutes a week Give 7 dollars a month Challenge 7 people a year to join Send us the confirmation email of your joining and we will give you a shout out on the podcast – send up a question with that email and we will respond to it on the next TNT podcast. Donations are tax deductible. *** 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!

We were stoked to sit down with Jim Wallis, Sojourners guru, political activist and all-around change agent for the common good to chat up what happened during the most recent elections. We talk about what comes next, how the parties will respond to the electorate and where both sides can come together for real change. And although Jim Wallis does sound a little bit like Darth Vader in this episode, it’s not his fault. We had an audio glitch in the recording in our haste to get this to you quickly. Christian Piatt and Jordan Green also break down some of their own political theories in the Echo Chamber, drop some family-friendly recommendations on your face and give a shout out to yet another special guest, coming soon on a future CultureCast. *** 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 Taylor, film director and rock hero, visits the show to talk with Christian Piatt and Jordan Green about the disappointing theater run of Blue Like Jazz, what made him leave music for film, and to announce his return to music through a new album he’s been working on. So, yeah, that’s a big deal. And yeah, we’re pretty much breaking the story. In the Echo Chamber, we talk about the election, Superstorm Sandy, scary movie commercials, and, you know, a bunch of other stuff. Finally, we discuss some common Christian cliches. (NOTE: This episode was recorded on Halloween, but the screeches you’ll hear throughout are not a ghost. They are Jordan’s daughter, Lana, who refused to nap.) *** 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!

Barry Taylor is back for round three of the Theology of Rock!  This time we wanted to help all those going in and out of the voting booth this week get provoked by some of the USofA’s best protest song writers to dream a bit bigger than our current political conversation.   In the episode we discuss… This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie Man in Black, Johnny Cash The Times They Are a Changing, Bob Dylan All She Wants to Do is Dance, Don Henley American Skin, Bruce Springsteen Sleep Now in the Fire, Rage Against the Machine Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue, Toby Keith (was not played) Strange Fruition, Lupe Fiasco In addition to the most awesome conversation with Barry we were joined at this live podcast by some amazing musicians including Randy, Colleen, & Daniel Bedingfield. * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline!  

In what may be their biggest get thus far, the CultureCast welcomes author, NPR contributor, and Esquire editor-at-large A.J. Jacobs to the show. On topic: A.J.’s latest book, Drop Dead Healthy, in which he chronicles the vastly different ways humans can bring their bodies to peak health, and how it feels to be the father of a cottage industry of life experiment books. Along those lines, Christian and Jordan discuss Rachel Held Evans and Lifeway Bookstores, Gawker’s exposition of Reddit’s nastiest troll, and Christian daringly endorses the iPhone 5. The CultureCast has its own feed so if you want Christian & Jordan’s awesomeness automatically delivered to your door subscribe!! Here is iTunes feed & here is the straight up feedburner feed! Rate it & Comment when you subscribe. * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline!  

47% of you will not like this podcast… but 99% of the angels started dancing when they heard that Joerg Rieger was coming back on the podcast!  Joerg’s last visit has remained one of the most popular episodes & this return visit will not disappoint.  Rieger and I had a monster of a conversation.  We discuss the election, the economy, the gaffs, Ayn Rand, and all that is being left of the table of our political discourse when it comes to economic justice.  Then we move on to a bunch of the HBC Deacons’ questions. Rieger is the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology (SMU), prolific author, regular speaker, motorcycle enthusiast, and just plain awesome dude.  In the podcast we discuss the relationship of politics, power, the economy, and our present crisis from a theological and biblical perspective.  We move from the abstract to the practical and along the way I hope it’s clear we both had a good bit of fun. *** Come see Rieger, Philip Clayton, Rita Brock, & more at the American Academy of Religion this year in Chicago.  Homebrewed Christianity is sponsoring a session: Occupy the Church: Church Theology for the 99 Percent.  It will be on Monday November 19 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM in the Conference Room 4A at the Hilton Chicago Hotel.  The details will be posted soon.*** Rieger is author of many books including: Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude **[This Book Currently Blowing My Mind Nightly]** No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future  (Kindle $9.99) Christ & Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times and Globalization and Theology ($8.80 Kindle, $9.80 paperback) Check out his amazing website for great resources! * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline!  

It is time to Nerd Out with your Geek Out!  After many sarcastic tweets from Bo, provocation from the Justin Klassen & Adam English interviews, Rob Bell’s request to explain them both and Tripp’s insistence on the last TNT episode that Radical Orthodoxy is cooler than Post-Liberalism (much to Bo’s dismay) comes the Theology Nerd Thrown all the Nerdy Deacons have been waiting for.  This is a Throwdown of Geeky proportions, sure to be ignored by the less than dweeby among us. We know we will have Deacons ready to respond and set us straight so hope on the HBC hotline & layeth the Theo-Smack down! * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline! This podcast is sponsored by Deacon Ken Alton who dropped the HBC a donation via PayPal! Mucho appreciated!

A couple weeks ago I got to preach on one of my favorite texts – Ruth.  We were kicking off a new church school year for the kids and introducing the new curriculum ‘Holy Moly’ from Sparkhouse.  If you are part of making the curriculum decisions at your church I can’t say how much all the teachers, parents, and the kids are loving Holy Moly.  Parents have said they are having more conversations about the stories and the faith with their kids. The teachers love how easy it is to use and modify depending on numbers and time each week.  More than that long time teachers keep telling me how the kids are excited each week and are picking back up the larger narrative of Abraham and the big family tree. Now that I plugged some amazing stuff, here’s the audio from the sermon at Neighborhood Church.  It begins with my buddy George reading all of the 1st chapter of Ruth. Brew On!

 Over the weekend, our friend Phil Snider had the unexpected pleasure of going viral. Not him personally, really, but a video he appeared in this past August snatched more than 2.5 million views after Gawker picked it up. Phil is a Disciples of Christ pastor in Springfield, MO, and he was speaking on behalf of LGBT rights at a local city council meeting. What he said and how he said it were nothing short of remarkable. Christian Piatt and Jordan Green were fortunate to get a chance to sit down and chat with him…especially since it was before all the big major media folks got a chance to! We also talked over some theology in the context of the Lance Armstrong scandal, and how he relates in some ways to Mars Hill Pastor Mark Driscoll. We toss out some TV recommendations and cap it all off with some Church Sign Epic Fails. * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline! This podcast is sponsored by Deacon Ken Alton who dropped the HBC a donation via PayPal! Mucho appreciated!

What would a PhD in American Religious History who converted to Christianity as a teen and then to Mormonism while at Princeton Seminary have to say about Romney’s run for the White House?  Well guess what?  Jana Riess is here to chat about it. We discuss much more than the election including a number of rumors I picked up off evangelical talk radio, bits of Mormon history, and the faith’s changing relationship to America and Christianity.  Buckle Up! Jana is the author, co-author, or editor of nine books, including Flunking Sainthood: A Year of Breaking the Sabbath, Forgetting to Pray, and Still Loving My Neighbor; What Would Buffy Do? The Vampire Slayer as a Spiritual Guide; Mormonism for Dummies; and The Writer’s Market Guide to Getting Published. Jana is an awesome blogger for Religion News Service. *YOU MUST FOLLOW JANA ON TWITTER* For more Mormon-casting check our the Culture Cast’s “I Love Mormons” episode and the Theology Nerd Throwdown where Bo and I chat about Jana’s last challenge to me. * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline! This podcast is sponsored by Deacon Ken Alton who dropped the HBC a donation via PayPal! Mucho appreciated!   Thursday Night – October 25th – 7pm – Monkish Brewing Company Come on out for a live mutinous podcasting experiment. Join Captain Brewin, Peg-Legged Pete, & Barry the Skull Keeper for some philosophical swash-buckling & fresh brewed pints at the Monkish Brewing Co. Kester Brewin is bringing the good news of pirate inspired mutiny to the USA. We shall be seeking the wisdom of Blackbeard, Luke Skywalker, Peter Pan and Odysseus and other eye-patched heroines as we reflect on personal development, art, economics and faith. If hearing from Kester about his newest book Mutiny! wasn’t enough… he’s bring two fellow philosophical swashbucklers, Peter Rollins & Barry Taylor, who shall assist him in over-throwing the intellectual & cultural scurvy. Get your Mutiny! tickets here. They are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Those in attendance are encouraged to come in Pirate gear. Should you NOT come with at least an eye patch you will be publicly shamed into purchasing Tripp an additional pint and yell ‘Arr’ with gusto.

This week, minister/blogger/former Presbyterian moderator Bruce Reyes-Chow calls in to talk race, mainstream denominations, and, most importantly, fantasy sports. Jordan and Christian later talk through a Time Magazine piece on eight innovative ideas changing the world, take another run at the Name of the Year bracket, which devolves considerably. Also, to introduce the show, Jordan talks about his wife dealing with breast cancer.   * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline! This podcast is sponsored by Deacon Ken Alton who dropped the HBC a donation via PayPal! Mucho appreciated!   Thursday Night – October 25th – 7pm – Monkish Brewing Company Come on out for a live mutinous podcasting experiment. Join Captain Brewin, Peg-Legged Pete, & Barry the Skull Keeper for some philosophical swash-buckling & fresh brewed pints at the Monkish Brewing Co. Kester Brewin is bringing the good news of pirate inspired mutiny to the USA. We shall be seeking the wisdom of Blackbeard, Luke Skywalker, Peter Pan and Odysseus and other eye-patched heroines as we reflect on personal development, art, economics and faith. If hearing from Kester about his newest book Mutiny! wasn’t enough… he’s bring two fellow philosophical swashbucklers, Peter Rollins & Barry Taylor, who shall assist him in over-throwing the intellectual & cultural scurvy. Get your Mutiny! tickets here. They are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Those in attendance are encouraged to come in Pirate gear. Should you NOT come with at least an eye patch you will be publicly shamed into purchasing Tripp an additional pint and yell ‘Arr’ with gusto.

It’s time for some more Theology of Rock with Barry Taylor!  Let’s talk about the apocalypse of teenage love, songs their writers -players-listeners & their meaning, Holy Week with Prince, the loss of meaning, Being-Toward-Death, YouTube-ing tunes, dance music, Tripp’s first dance theological dance tune, American Idol’s obsession with worship leaders, Reality TV, depravity, & the collapse of the sacred and profane in rock music. This Week in Billboard History (1st week of October) * 1964 Roy Orboson…. oh pretty woman * 1968 Beatles … Hey Jude * 1984 Prince… Let’s Go Crazy * 1996 Los del Río …. Nacarena * 2006 Kelly Clarkson…. a moment like this Barry and I also discussed David Byrne’s new book How Music Works. Come get more of Theology of Rock fun LIVE at Mutiny! with Kester Brewin & Peter Rollins! * SUPPORT the podcast by just getting anything on AMAZON through THIS LINK or you can get some Homespun Craftianity. We really appreciate your assistance in covering all the hosting fees which went up 30 bucks a month due to the growing Deaconate! Protect Your Table. Buy a Coaster. One Click to the Homebrewed Hotline! This podcast is sponsored by Deacon Ken Alton who dropped the HBC a donation via PayPal!  Mucho appreciated!   Thursday Night – October 25th – 7pm – Monkish Brewing Company Come on out for a live mutinous podcasting experiment. Join Captain Brewin, Peg-Legged Pete, & Barry the Skull Keeper for some philosophical swash-buckling & fresh brewed pints at the Monkish Brewing Co. Kester Brewin is bringing the good news of pirate inspired mutiny to the USA. We shall be seeking the wisdom of Blackbeard, Luke Skywalker, Peter Pan and Odysseus and other eye-patched heroines as we reflect on personal development, art, economics and faith. If hearing from Kester about his newest book Mutiny! wasn’t enough… he’s bring two fellow philosophical swashbucklers, Peter Rollins & Barry Taylor, who shall assist him in over-throwing the intellectual & cultural scurvy. Get your Mutiny! tickets here. They are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Those in attendance are encouraged to come in Pirate gear. Should you NOT come with at least an eye patch you will be publicly shamed into purchasing Tripp an additional pint and yell ‘Arr’ with gusto.

This epic showcase of Theology Nerd fireworks was recorded at Wild Goose East 2012. Bo was unavailable for the trip so Callid Keefe-Perry stepped up for the show… and what a show it was!  Tripp and Callid introduce the Goose to HyperTheism!  For anyone willing to overlook some sketchy audio quality at parts – this is going to be a gold mine of goodness! The songs at the beginning and the end of the show are spliced in from Wild Goose West with the band Ironic Indifference.  Both shows were recorded live and in open areas so there is a lot of background noise … but if you are up for it – you will NOT be sorry. You can link up with Callid at The Image of Fish  and on his film site Made as Makers  Make sure to get your tickets for Mutiny!  Its time for some philosophical Swashbuckling!!!  It is nearing time for a live podcast of EPIC proportions! Kester Brewin, Peter Rollins, & Barry Taylor in a fleshly 3D in Los Angeles. You will get 3 hours of nerdy excitement. There will be live rock music, a Theology of Rock podcast, fresh craft beer, & the main event – MUTNIY! Thursday Night – October 25th – 7pm – Monkish Brewing Company