Theology Nerd Throwdown

Callid recently released his book, Way to Water: A Theopoetics Primer with Cascade Books and we threw an online book party. That celebratory and streaming endeavor has been edited for your listening enjoyment. The book itself is chock full of goodness with chapters on process theopoetics (including Catherine Keller), the intersection of biblical and literary studies, Rubem Alves‘ liberation theology, and… Read more about A Theopoetics Party on the TNT

The Level Ground LIVE show at Jones Coffee in Pasadena, CA was a blast. What it lacked in theology it made up for in throw down. Enjoy the highlights of our conversation with Samantha Curley and Barry Taylor about film, faith and sexuality. Monkish Beer was a generous sponsor! We want to wish Brian White… Read more about Level Ground LIVE 3D: sex and spirituality

The Culture-Cast and TNT team up for a rowdy LIVE 3D event at C21 in Phoenix, AZ  We want to thank everyone who came out and made this evening so memorable. Philips Theological Seminary was our sponsor this evening – and rocked the swag! The episode starts on a negative note but has a trajectory… Read more about HBC21 Live Event

2015 starts with a deep discussion of Hume and the much contested definition of miracles.  This is partially in response to the last TNT with Shultz and Taylor and the subsequent blog by Bill Walker that naturalism is not enough.  Book suggestions from this show: For the Bible Tells Me So  Gangnam Style  Ecstatic Naturalism … Read more about TNT: Hume on Miracles

Podcast favorite LeRon Shults sits down with Barry Taylor and Tripp in the HBC HQ to chat.  LeRon has made the infamous migration from Emergent to agnostic. His new books can be found here. Get his new book Theology After the Birth of God on discount until Feb.  Then Feb. 1 the paperback version of Iconoclastic Theology comes… Read more about TNT: Shults and Taylor

Tripp sits down with Jay Baker and Peter Rollins for a nice conversation.  It starts off with some levity before getting into more serious matters.  

Tripp sits down with Tony Jones to chat about the new series with Fortress Press: ‘Theology for the People”.  They chat about everything from the publishing industry to the emergent church – from theological education to the death of God. If you have not heard part 1 of the AAR live event featuring Catherine Keller… Read more about Theology for the People: Publishing, Emergent and God

J. Ryan Parker sits down with Bo to talk about the movie Exodus: Gods and Men. Bo had blogged about the footage that he had seen and Ryan came over to chat about it. You can read Parker’s article in Relevant Magazine about Ridley Scott’s portrayal of God in the movie.    

It’s time for Advent and we have prepared a weekly exploration of the Biblical texts offered in the lectionary.  Due to Thanksgiving, we pre-recorded this episode and wanted to offer it for some fun and conversation. If you are interested in the next 4 please sign up for the class and plan to join us… Read more about Eat More Turkey: here is some sermon prep

Last year in Baltimore the Open and Relational Theologies session took a look at the Emerging Church.  This session involves three conversations, with three participants in each. These conversations pertain to papers written by participants, but there will be no formal reading of the papers. The conversations explore issues in the emergent church as they… Read more about Transgressing Emergence: AAR and the Church

The Elder of Hops joins Bo and Tripp to chat about the empty tomb, Biblical scholarship and church planting.  The book that Bo references is The Shaping Of Things To Come. Heads UP: Advent is coming so Tripp & Bo are inviting you to a High Gravity Advent.  Register of the course and join the… Read more about TNT: Church Planting, Empty Tomb and Biblical Scholarship

Christian Piatt of the Homebrewed CultureCast was recently in SoCal to hang with Tripp Fuller and talk about his new book PostChristian: What’s left? Can we fix? Do we care?   They were joined by Bart Campolo, Peter Rollins and Benjamin Cory to talk about the implications of moving on. Imagine this as an a living room… Read more about PostChristian Piatt Fun!

March 2014 in San Diego TransFORM provided Homebrewed with three firsts: The debut of a new gameshow “En Fuego!“ Joerg Rieger says nice things about capitalism Tripp lost a preach-off (to Peter Matthews pictured right) We had a blast catching up with old friends and meeting tons of new folks. Rebekah Berndnt and Micky Jones… Read more about TransFORM TNT

Two Friars and a Fool come by to explain why they think you should stop praying. It’s an interesting conversation about their concept of prayer and action. We want to thank Chalice Press for sponsoring the show. Check out the book on Amazon (Kindle is $7) Make sure to check out Phillips Theological Seminary ahead of… Read more about TNT: Homebrewed Never Prays Again

We sit down with Pete Rollins and Phil Harrison in the backyard to chat about everything from art and justice to Jesus and religious authority. Phil was in town to promote his new movie The Good Man. Make sure to check it out and look for our upcoming interview with him! See the trailer here… Read more about TNT: authority, language, Jesus and ideology

Incarnation, the Biblical conquest and worship for your benefit are our topics this week. We start with Victoria Osteen’s viral video. Joshua’s Canaanite genocide is up next. Then we flesh out the incarnation via an interesting thought experiment. We end with a little game to see what Tripp learned during his comprehensive exams. Outro music:… Read more about TNT: part 2 collected conversations

Facebook & Ferguson  Bo is back and publishing some of his conversations recorded over the past months.  Tripp and Bo intro the episode then Micky Jones (starting at 7:50) and Bo chat for a half-hour. The second half is the Theology Nerds fielding phone calls about different types of  Christianity.   The 2nd half of… Read more about TNT: Conversations Collected part 1

We finish with a BANG! Callid and Bo conclude the ABC’s of Theology series with:  V is for Vatican II (ecclesiology) W is for the Word of God (scripture) X is for X-ray (technology) Y is for Y2K (apocalyptic) Z is for Zebra (evolution) Thank you for all of your feedback and encouragement. A special… Read more about Catholic, Quaker, Evolution, Apocalypse: final TNT for ABCs

Micky and Callid join Bo to discuss Salvation, Theopoetics and Universalism for the ABC’s of Theology.  You can read the original posts here: S is for Salvation (Micky) T is for Theopoetics (Callid) U is for Universalism (Bo)   You can follow the rest of series here [link]  Artwork for the series by Jesse Turri

Callid and Bo return for the next 3 letters in the ABC’s of Theology series. Up today are: P is for Perichoresis Q is for the Quest for the Historical Jesus R is for Revelation (and the book of Revelation)  You can find the original posts with the links above.   Artwork for the series… Read more about TNT: P Q R for the ABCs of Theology