One of the greatest insights of the Google-World is the freedom of Beta. A Beta is more than a product not-yet-ready-for-consumption, but a way of thinking, creating, and living. It owns being unfinished. It expects contribution, evolution, transparency. For a long time all of culture was under a spell. It believed in the [...]

 

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Since I am a big fan of LOST, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to invite Chris Seay back on the podcast. Chris is a pastor in Houston and author of The Gospel According to LOST. In the conversation, we explore the biblical themes in LOST, the theme of science vs. faith, and we spend [...]

 

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Jonathan is a blogger, podcaster, and the author of the novel, St. Peter’s Brewery. He was a newspaper editor and used to be involved in Christian rasslin. St. Peter’s Brewery follows the tale of Jimmy, who runs away from all of his problems, and finds sanctuary in a small pub located in what used to be a church building. [...]

 

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Heresy hunters, be on alert, because  this episode features Heretic’s Guide to Eternity coauthor Barry Taylor hanging out in his Beverly Hills office with Tripp talking about all the various intersections he’s interested in involving faith and culture.
Barry is the artist-in-residence at the Brehm Center for Worship Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary [...]

 

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We finish up the second year of the podcast with Darby Kathleen Ray, professor of religious studies at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Ray’s book Incarnation and Imagination: A Christian Ethic of Ingenuity is about the incarnation as the key to God’s ingenious and imaginative response to human evil. Her work inspires Christians to [...]

 

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Fr. Richard Rohr returns to the podcast to discuss his latest book The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See, which offers an understanding of the Christian mystic tradition as a nondualistic way of seeing the moment. This is what Fr. Rohr says is the most important book that he has written to [...]

 

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What a treat we have this week!  None other than Emilie Townes,  ground breaking theologian, Baptist minister, and now Homebrewed Christianity guest.  Ever since I met her last March at the Transforming Theology conference I knew she needed to be on the podcast.  There I was able to interview her for a video series [...]

 

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Traveling for Thanksgiving? Why not spend it with a few turkeys? Tripp and I cut up for a few minutes as usual, with fresh taunting directed toward our lovable rivals over at The Nick and Josh Podcast, then we turn to the topic du jour. This week, we’re visited by James F. McGrath from the [...]

 

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This week we have Julie Clawson on the podcast, a prolific blogger, emerging woman, and author of Everyday Justice. Julie’s book challenges us all to love our global neighbors by practicing justice in our daily lives. She explains all of the systems of injustice we participate in – issues like sex trafficking and the use [...]

 

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Dr. Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. is a retired Xavier University professor of theology, and author of many books on philosophical theology, including God: Three Who are One, which we discuss this week. I got a chance to read it for the Transforming Theology Theo-Blogger Consortium last spring.
We begin our conversation with Moltmann’s theology and Joe [...]

 

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