Theology Nerd Throwdown

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. Today, Tripp is joined by Brian McLaren to help answer your questions, including: In the past 3 years I’ve become more committed as a… Read more about What’s the Point of Christianity? w/ Brian McLaren

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. In this episode, Tripp picks up where he left off last time and addresses some more questions surrounding evil: doesn’t the problem of evil… Read more about Evil: Part 2

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. We got lot of questions about evil, suffering, and divine power. There is the classic philosophical question about evil, and then there is the theological… Read more about Evil: Part 1

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. Today’s question: is the canon open or closed? how would communities decide what new texts should be considered to be part of an ongoing… Read more about Should We Open the Canon, or Keep It Closed?

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. Today’s question: did the early Christians believe the Bible was inerrant? The short answer is no. But it’s a little more complicated than that.… Read more about Did Early Christians Think The Bible Was Inerrant?

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. This week’s question: What do I do with 4 different, contradictory, gospel stories? In answering, Tripp wants to convince you that you… Read more about Be Glad the Gospels Don’t Line Up

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you. In this episode Tripp tries to tackle two questions: How did the early church see the relationship between religion/faith and reason/science? How… Read more about Faith, Reason, and Reading the Bible

Back by popular demand, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza sits down to talk with Tripp about Thanksgiving, the theology of nostalgia, and the politics of wholeness. They discuss: the postwar origins of Thanksgiving how do we reconcile the Christian rhetoric of gratitude and the founding of our country on the genocide of indigenous peoples appropriate (and inappropriate) holiday… Read more about Thanksgiving, Nostalgia, and Togetherness with Robyn Henderson-Espinoza #GoActivistTheology

Theologian and activist Timothy Murphy is on the podcast to talk about his new book, Counter-Imperial Churching for a Planetary Gospel. It’s part of the (Process) Theology Nerd Book Giveaway sponsored by Process Century Press and the Center for Process Studies In this episode you’ll hear about Timothy’s interest not just in process, but in… Read more about Social Justice, Conflict, and Process Ecclesiology with Timothy Murphy

Get ready for all the freedom, liberty, and patriotic stuff you can handle! Jason Micheli and Teer Hardy from the Crackers & Grape Juice Podcast. In this episode the Hauerwasian Mafia sent one of its Drill Sergeants, Jason, to talk about the predicament of faith, freedom, and the conflicting calls to allegiance that color the American… Read more about Freedom, Liberty, and Other Patriotic Stuff

Welcome to a special episode of the Theology Nerd podcast. Today, the Good Doctor Daniel Kirk is talking to Jeffrey Pugh about his book,  The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times: Theology After You’ve Been Left Behind. Hear about Jeffrey’s personal history with apocalyptic movements, the secret to the end of the world, the… Read more about The Secret Chart to the END OF TIME (kind of) with Jeffrey Pugh and Daniel Kirk

We are live from North Carolina today! J. Aaron Simmons, Lauren Winner, and Ryan Newsome were all on stage for the live podcast from the Progressive Youth Ministry conference at Montreat in North Carolina. PYM just announced details for next year’s conference, so make sure to check progressiveyouthministry.org for more. This episode includes the full… Read more about Smells Like Teenage Phenomenology with J. Aaron Simmons LIVE from #PYM17

The good Doctor Daniel Kirk is on a road trip across the country with Clan Kirk, but no need to fear your Lectiocast is still here! It is an honor to fill in for Daniel and talk some lectionary goodness. We will see how long it takes before Daniel quits his trip and gets me… Read more about Questions for Trinity (Sunday) #LectioCast

“Lament is the antidote of denial.” – Walter Brueggemann This episode Tripp and Nathan talk to Erin Schendzielos about new project her and the Shelter50 Publishing Collective are working on with Walter Brueggemann – Antidote: Interruptions of Lament and of New Originary Stirrings. This project was inspired by the Adult VBS Walter did at the Hatchery last… Read more about Interruptions of Lament and of New Originary Stirrings with Erin Schendzielos

Are we all taking different paths up the same mountain? or are their many mountains? is there one ultimate reality or many? Andrew Schwartz, director of the Center for Process Studies – a research center of Claremont School of Theology, in affiliation with Claremont Graduate University. CPS seeks to promote the common good by means of the… Read more about Deep Religious Pluralism with Andrew Schwartz

The podcast is coming to you live from the Hive in Cincinnati with our friends at the Common Pilgrim. Tripp talks to friend of the podcast (and author of the forthcoming Homebrewed Guide to Salvation) Adam Clark, and Alice Connor about her new book Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom,… Read more about Live at the Hive in Cincinnati

Tripp was in Santa Barbara where the Way Collective sponsored the Believing Skepticast at the phenomenal Third Window Brewing Co. Tripp and Tim talk about what is happening with religion in the 21st century and navigating the tricky waters of faith and doubt. Whereas in the past, atheists and believers from separate camps would debate… Read more about Believing Skepticast: Live in Santa Barbara

Jeffrey Pugh and Eric Hall have taken over the Theology Nerd podcast this week! Jeff and Eric, authors of the Homebrewed Guide to the End Times and God (respectively), sat down early on Holy Saturday to talk about their books, how a young Assemblies of God Eric got an endowed chair at a Catholic school,… Read more about Truth, Hermeneutics, and Revelation with Jeff Pugh and Eric Hall

Are you an Oordian? Are you a member of Oord Nation? Listen to Thomas Jay Oord answer your questions about open and relation theology and you just might become an Oordian. In this episode Tripp and Tom answer a stack of questions that people sent in about open and relational theology. Topics include: divine power,… Read more about Open and Relational Q&A with Thomas Jay Oord

This is a Q&A episode of the Theology Nerd podcast, where we answer questions that listeners like you send in. We talk about how not to preach the woman at the well story (John 4), the intersection of musical theater and theology, and what Peter Berger’s Sacred Canopy has to say (if anything) about the Trump… Read more about Politics, Musical Theater, and the Woman at the Well