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Ethicists love to talk about war and peace. Theologians regularly debate the merits of pacifism verses just-war. The biggest problem with theses conversations is just how foreign the actual experience and situation of the solider is from the debates. On the show this week is Logan Isaac and Matt Moorman from the Centurion's Guild. Matt was a friend of Tripp's from high school turned solider turned minister and friend of Logan. Logan is an Iraqi vet and a peace activist and advocate for his fellow soldiers. He's the author of Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism & Conscience and For God and Country (In That Order): Faith and Service for Ordinary Radicals. Make sure to check them out on twitter, instagram and Facebook. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is second sold out live show from the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Columbus Ohio. It was a spectacular evening and some of it was recorded. What wasn't recorded was taking our guest Andy on his first trip to Waffle House. In this episode you will get... * Adam Phillips & Andy Goebel shall be in the house talking about their church plants getting kicked out of one denomination and welcomed into another for being welcoming. * Phil Snider, GLAD award recipient and postmodern pulpit practitioner, joins us for some sermonic convo and a Preach Off vs Tripp. * There's a display of Tripp's lack of cultural awareness, Amy's endless reservoir of fear & Christian's excellent French accent. * We have some heart felt tunes from Andra Moran & Trey and Carter from Populis join us for some jams. This podcast was sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary. Josh Linton was in the house for Phillips and got everyone their first two drinks. Can you imagine a cooler place to go to school? Make sure you check them out and holla at Josh with any questions. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Theological Ethicist Miguel A. De La Torre is on the podcast to talk about his new book The Politics of Jesús: A Hispanic Political Theology. Dr. De La Torre is Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He has served as the elected 2012 President of the Society of Christian Ethics and currently serves as the Executive Officer for the Society of Race, Ethnicity and Religion. Here's his blog for your edification. Also check out some of his other awesome books Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians and Reading the Bible from the Margins. PS he also thinks that sex is great. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prepare yourself for an audiological explosion of monumental proportions. This is the first night of HBC\CultureCast excitement at the Disciples of Christ General Assembly in Columbus Ohio. In the podcast Christian, Amy and I are joined by the one and only Rev. Dr. Sharon E. Watkins, Sarah Lund, Rick Lowery and music by Populis. This podcast was sponsored by Phillips Theological Seminary. Josh Linton was in the house for Phillips and got everyone their first two drinks. Can you imagine a cooler place to go to school? Make sure you check them out and holla at Josh with any questions. It was also sponsored by the Disciples Youth Ministry Network. Sarah's new book Blessed Are the Crazy: Breaking the Silence about Mental Illness, Family and Church. Make sure you check out Populis' new EP. It will make your booty scoot. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Merold Westphal is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. Westphal is a long time philosophy prof from Fordham University and has now reached the status of emeritus. Merold is a top notch philosopher and committed evangelical who thinks deep and wrestles faithfully. He publishes regularly and also has an awesome book for a general audience. This is the third lecture from the End of Religion conference at Villanova University. Up next is Jack Caputo! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aaron Simmons is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Furman University, author of The New Phenomenology, a bunch of other books and does some blogging here. This presentation is from the End of Religion conference sponsored by Villanova University. Check out the previous episode with Jeff Robbins if you missed it. The paper is followed by a panel discussion with Jeff, Aaron, Westphal and Caputo. Don't miss it. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Christopher Rodkey is on the podcast talking the death of God, radical theology, preaching, worship, board meetings and everything in between. Dr. Rodkey is is a United Church of Christ pastor and religious educator, professor, and author. He is pastor of St. Paul's United Church of Christ in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, and teaches at Penn State York and Lancaster Theological Seminary. He holds doctorates from Drew University and Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary and is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Saint Vincent College. Make sure to check out his recent books The Synaptic Gospel and Too Good to Be True. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's time to discuss "The End of Religion!" Not only that but Jeff Robbins give us four theses on the radical theology of the future. Robbins is a professor of religion and philosophy at Lebanon Valley College, infamous radical theologian & the reigning "Best Hair in the Humanities" champion. Robbins returns to the podcast as one of four lectures tackling the 'end of religion' as part of a series partnering with the religion department of Villanova University. The four lectures include Jeffrey Robbins, Jack Caputo, Aaron Simmons and Merold Westphal. If you dig what Jeff is up to then check out his previous interviews here on HBC where we discuss The New Materialism and his guide to advent. Also be wise and look at all these EPIC texts he has written. There is no reason not to own and read Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New Materialism. It's delicious reading. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It is time to start preparing for the Presidential Election! Ok that might not be super exciting news BUT that won't spotty rest of your water cooler from talking religion and politics in the near future. Luckily our favorite ex-pastor and religious journalist Greg Horton has agreed to join the podcast for some nerdy fun. In this episode we talk about our not-so-Christian nation, the confederate flag, USA flag in sanctuaries, wedding cakes, love of science, the most BA Pope, how to apply a religious label and other goodies. Listen and then holla back on the SpeakPipe to let us know what we should talk about next on an election year update. Greg Horton is a freelance writer and professor of English, Humanities, and Philosophy. He lives in downtown Oklahoma City in a substandard apartment that befits his status as a member of the fourth estate. He has published more than 800 articles (for real money) on topics as wide ranging as religion, wine, travel, politics, culture, music, and arts. He is most often on twitter, but fb remains open on his browser, too: twitter.com/expastor. It may be that he will finally update his blog soon, but since it doesn't earn money, maybe not: typepad.com/theparish. Over a period of about 15 years, Horton worked for three different church staffs in three different traditions, including a brief, mind-numbing stint as a senior pastor. Somehow, he has managed to turn degrees in Bible (B.S.) and Religion (M.A.) into actual non-religious credentials. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jennifer Grace Bird teaches at the University of Portland and Portland Community College. She is a bible scholar and Permission Granted is her first "popular audience" book (she talks about that dubious category in the interview) and is intended for people to use in their communities to read scripture together. The text itself is chock full of great stuff and comes along with questions to guide folks in reading along together as they make their way through the book, making sure they have their Bible nearby. Callid was able to catch up with Jennifer earlier this month and so we're able to bring the goodness straight to you. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Root is back on the podcast to talk about a cross centered practical theology. In his new book Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross he pushes back against his field avoiding robust interaction with systematic theology. In the podcast we cover Charles Taylor, Jungel, Kathryn Tanner, Kant, interdisciplinary studies, Schleiermacher, and other goodies. We also discuss his other new book Bonhoeffer as Youth Worker: A Theological Vision for Discipleship and Life Together. That's right, Bonhoeffer was a youth minister with a PhD. Andy is the Olson Baalson Associate Professor of Youth and Family Ministry at Luther Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. He also has a website and a podcast that you should check out. Here's his last visit to the podcast back in 2010 when we talked about despair. Enjoy! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Highlights from our first Deacon Meeting held in May 2015. Tony, Mickey, Barry and Pete join Bo and Tripp to respond to conundrums sent in by the deacons. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dietrich Bonhoeffer remains one the 20th century's greatest and most influential theologians. In this episode Dr. Marsh and I discuss our love for Bonhoeffer, his life, theology, and more. Charles recently published a Bonhoeffer biography titled Strange Glory that I couldn't put down. In this episode you get to hear us talk about some of the fresh insights into Bonhoeffer's life and thought Marsh unpacked in his book. We will discuss his fascination with Catholicism, friendship with Karl Barth, his childhood neighbor Adolf Von Harnack, the influence of Reinhold Niebuhr on him, and his homoerotic friendship with Eberhard Bethge. Charles Marsh is professor of religious studies and director of the Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. In this interview he and I had so much fun talking Bonhoeffer our passionate interchange had us moving back and forth between parts of Dietrich's life and theological conversation partners. His new biography of Bonhoeffer, Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is amazing. You should really buy it, read it and enjoy. Also if you are an audiophile the audio book is available as well so no excuses. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo is straight up excited about this interview. You can tell throughout that he not only has been reading a lot of Mindy McGarrah Sharp but loving it. During the conversation they discuss Dr. Sharp's new book Misunderstanding Stories: Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology and The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology. Mindy is the Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Ethics at Phillips Theological Seminary. Make sure to follow her on twitter. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is the highlights from the Live podcast at the Twin Cities School of Theology Launch Party. TwinSoT is new theological school being launched by Untied Theological Seminary in the Twin Cities and also new partner with the Hatchery LA. In the podcast you will hear from Barbara Holmes, Philip Clayton, Paul Capetz, Thorsten Mortiz and Maria Francesca French. The highlight of the trip was definitely getting to connect with the local Deacons! It was amazing to put some human beings to the tweets and speak pipe calls. Plus I got to go to Fulton brewery afterwards and buy some the HBC Community members a pint. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let's talk about the church, faith and spiritual formation in the super connected and networked world we live in. We are joined by Clint Schnekloth, author of Mediating Faith: Faith Formation in a Trans-media Era. Over the course of the conversation he discusses 2nd life, Minecraft, YouTube, World of War Craft and other exciting places to ponder faith formation. Clint is a legit Homebrewed Christianity Deacon and lead pastor at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He lives in East Fayetteville, with his wife and three children, all ages six and under. If you are wise you will check out his most tasty blog and follow him on twitter. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Friend of the podcast Brian McLaren is back to discuss the ecological crisis, the Bible and a stack of things in between. Bo and Brian also discuss his most recent book We Make the Road by Walking: A Year-Long Quest for Spiritual Formation, Reorientation, and Activation. If you haven't checked it out you should. Here's the Theology Nerd Throwdown episode from C21 in case you missed it and want to hear when Brian first started forgetting the podcast's name. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This TNT Call-In is packed with conversation and contentious perspectives about God, culture and evangelical 'orthodoxy'. 5 calls provide more material than Bo and Tripp can possibly deal with in one episode. At min 55 the 'Al' vs. 'The' debate resurfaces in a brand new way to end the show. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cynthia Shafer-Elliott is the Professor of Hebrew Bible at William Jessup University specializing in the historical, cultural, and archaeological contexts of ancient Israel and Judah. Her interest in the daily lives of the average Israelite and Judahite household include economics, food preparation and consumption, religion, and the roles and relationships of the family. She is an experienced field archaeologist in Israel and is currently part of the archaeological excavation team at Tel es-Safi/Gath, Israel. Dr. Shafer-Elliott is also the author of an academic book Food In Ancient Judah - and joins Bo to talk about all of these things! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

LeRon Shults is back on the podcast – partly to respond for some of the controversy he stirred up the last time he was on with Barry Taylor in Tripp’s very busy garage. Talking about his unique evolutionary take on the development of religion and atheisms … The other reason that he is back is to promote an explosive new venture by Syndicate Theology F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway and the author or editor of twelve other books, including his recent Iconoclastic Theology: Gilles Deleuze and the Secretion of Atheism (2014). Shults is also a senior research fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion in Boston, USA. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Did you know that God is Unconscious? I didn't until Tad Delay told me. Here's the thing, it is super sexy for nerds to talk about psychoanalysis, Freud and Lacan. Clearly Zizek can use them to write really sweet movie reviews but if you were wondering just what happens when psychoanalysis and theology hang out you need to read this book! Tad has written an accessible that by its end will have you thinking thoughts you had no idea how to think before you started. Tad is a friend of the show and fellow PhD candidate at Claremont. His book is so good and the ideas so deep that just one interviewer was not enough - we had to get three! Tripp, Barry Taylor and Pete Rollins (who wrote the forward to Tad's book) sit down to chat with him. You will also notice the sweet cover illustration by our Elder of Graphical Sweetness - Jesse Turri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Paeth and Douglas Ottati tackle the lightning round at Progressive Youth Ministry with a whirlwind tour of the history of liberal theology. You can hear part 1 of the live show from that evening featuring Amy Butler and John Vest here. Both Paeth and Ottati have been on HBC multiple times. Here are a couple of links for each of them. Paeth's first visit. BONUS-cast. 2014 PYMC. Ottati's first visit (Christology). Why write a liberal theology? We want to thank Phillips Theological Seminary for their awesome sponsorship of this evening and their ongoing partnership. Please check out their new ministry degrees ... including the Masters in Theological Studies and Doctor of Ministry! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bonnie Miller-McLemore chats with Callid and Bo to help introduce the upcoming Practical Theology Project. The Practical Theology Project will debut later this Summer and will pair voices and perspectives in side-by-side clips responding to the same basic questions. Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University. Her research in religion, psychology, and culture, pastoral and practical theology, and women and childhood studies focuses on understanding the person and lived theology in the midst of everyday realities. Her works include The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology ; Christian Theology in Practice: Discovering a Discipline ; In the Midst of Chaos: Caring for Children as Spiritual Practice. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Who doesn't like the House of Cards on netflix? Probably the people who are gonna skip this episode because it is a serious conversation about the most recently dropped and binged through season. There shall be discussion of politics, power, sex, violence, and the double tap of a desk. Long time HBC Deacon from Georgia, professor of English from Emmanuel college, and co-host of the Christian Humanist podcast Nathan Gilmour joins Tripp for a spoiler filled discussion of the House of Cards. If you haven't seen the new season don't cry if we ruin it. If you have enjoy or message the Speakpipe about all the cool stuff we missed or got wrong. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Genocide, Ham Sandwiches and Infallibility are on the docket as Peter Enns returns to the podcast for the second time. He is a Biblical scholar and professor at Eastern University. If you missed Peter's first visit about the evolution of Adam and Eve ... make sure to check it out. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Progressive Youth Ministry 2015 in Chicago gave HBC a chance to hang with the Reverend Doctors Amy Butler and John Vest! Thanks to Phillips Theological Seminary for sponsoring the evening and make sure you check out the new Masters of Arts in Social Justice. Kudos to the Hatchery for providing the pint glasses. They were very useful. This is part 1 of that marathon evening and part 2 will be on the TNT in 3 days with a Genealogy of Liberal Theology. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bo and Tripp are responding to SpeakPipe calls in this episode. Cindy asks about the Great Debacle podcast. Doug likes the Flipped episode with HeatherLyn. Micky invites everyone to the TransFORMed conference. Omar wants to talk about inclusion and systemic issues from High Gravity. Brekke calls in about forgiveness. Nathanael has questions about Process. We are creating a page of links and resources about Process stuff. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Buckle your theological safety belts for it is time for a debacle. It is neither a conversation nor a debate but a debacle... a Great Debacle! Over 1300 people tuned in to the stream from all over the globe to wrestle with the meaning of the cross. Now you get to enjoy this gem of a nerdy kerfuffle. Tony Jones comes to the debacle dropping wisdom bombs from his new book Did God Kill Jesus? Peter Rollins is rocking his Gandalf hat spitting rhymes from The Divine Magician. Old Town Roastingbrought us coffee & COOP Ale Works delivered the malted excitement. Snoochie Boochies! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we have a theological examination of a cultural phenomenon. Theological Reflections on “Gangnam Style”: A Racial, Sexual, and Cultural Critique by Joseph Cheah - Associate Professor of Comparative Theology,University of Saint Joseph and Grace Ji-Sun Kim - Visiting Researcher,Georgetown University We are excited to have Grace Ji-Sun Kim on again (you can hear her first visit here) and we look forward to her contribution to the Fortress Press' 'Theology For The People' series next year. We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary's DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on. Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Pagitt has FLIPPED his view of God and thinks that you should too! In this episode, Doug and Heatherlyn join Tripp and Bo at the Loft LA for conversation and presentation about turning our notion of God on its head. Check out Heatherlyn's FaceBook page and Website for more of her music. Around the 40' mark Chris Spearman chats with her about artistry and church music. We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary's DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on. Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the sweet Continental philosophy of John Caputo, Richard Kearney, and Karmen MacKendrick. For more info on Callid's book check out the blog tour. We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary's DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on. Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over. You can also check out the downloadable package of three High Gravity classes Tripp and Peter Rollins taught together. It includes all the audio from Atheism for Lent, Radical Theology, and Christology classes totally over 27 hours of material for 50 bucks. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did God Kill Jesus? What do we do with the 'sacrifice' talk in scripture? Is the cross a symbol worth keeping? Did Jesus have to die for God to love us? What would Tripp sound like if he was a revival preacher? Those questions and more will be explored in this interview with Elder Tony Jones. It was recorded live in Chicago at LaSalle Street Church. Not only were they excellent hosts for the day long Theology Nerd Bootcamp but they opened in the evening for a good group of guests ready to hear about Tony's new book Did God Kill Jesus? Let this wet your theological whistle because on HOLY SATURDAY (April 4th 10:30 am pst.) Tony and I will be joined by Peter Rollins for The Great Debacle! Be wise and sign up for your free ticket to the live video stream. We are thrilled to have the Wesley Theological Seminary's DMin program sponsoring the podcast. Head on over to this Washington DC institution of theological learning to hear more about getting your learn on. Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over. You can also check out the downloadable package of three High Gravity classes Tripp and Peter Rollins taught together. It includes all the audio from Atheism for Lent, Radical Theology, and Christology classes totally over 27 hours of material for 50 bucks. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Why in the world are philosophers getting so excited about Paul these days? Well I would tell you the answer but Tripp and Pete decided to do an entire High Gravity class investigating this turn to Paul among political philosophers. Last week the class kicked off with an initial session on the Bible with Daniel Kirk and now in the second session we turn to the philosophers. This podcast includes the general introduction to Paul and the philosophers that kicked off session two. Check it out and think about joining us for the rest of the class. In the second half of this session we discussed Jacob Taubes‘ seminal work The Political Theology of Paul. His lectures were what paved the way for two of the most talked about texts in political philosophy. In weeks 3 and 4 we will walk through Alain Badiou‘s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. In weeks 5 and 6 we will do a close reading of Slavoj Zizek‘s The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. Make sure you check out our sponsor Deidox Films. They create short films take show how different disciples in different walks of life embody their faith. If you like using films in your teaching, preaching or learning then get wise and click on over. You can also check out the downloadable package of three High Gravity classes Tripp and Peter Rollins taught together. It includes all the audio from Atheism for Lent, Radical Theology, and Christology classes totally over 27 hours of material for 50 bucks. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul wrote half the New Testament. He is also the topic for the new High Gravity online class with Peter Rollins that just started. Session one featured a special guest - Fuller Seminary NT Prof. Daniel Kirk! In this podcast you get two hours of hype and just the first half of Daniel's presentation for us in the kick off session. Next week we will start reading three different political philosophers! In the second session we will look at Jacob Taubes‘ seminal work The Political Theology of Paul. His lectures were what paved the way for two of the most talked about texts in political philosophy. In weeks 3 and 4 we will walk through Alain Badiou‘s Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism. In weeks 5 and 6 we will do a close reading of Slavoj Zizek‘s The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity. The class includes over 10 hours of live-streamed nerdiness for just 30 bucks. Each session will be a live streamed video-cast w/ some introductory remarks about the thinkers, conversational walkthrough the texts, and interaction with the participants. Following the session it will be available for download on the class page along with links to the archived video, supplemental reading material, and the class discussion board. Each session will begin at 6pm pst (9pm est). Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 a speedy recovery. Enjoy the closing song - or as someone said "Open all the kegs and let Tripp out into the world!" Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I (Jesse) recently chatted with one of my favorite ecophilosophers, bloggers, and youtubers, Matthew David Segall. Matthew is a a doctoral candidate in philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. His knowledge of the history of philosophy is expansive and the synthetic approach exemplified in his work is imperative and extremely valuable. We cover a ton of topics including Matthew's spiritual and philosophical influences/background, his transition from scientistic atheism to Buddhism to Western Esoteric Hermetic Christianity, his understanding of the relationship between science, philosophy and religion in the west, his interest in Carl Jung, Whitehead, Schelling, and esoteric thinker Rudolph Steiner and how they exhibit what Matt calls "etheric imagination." We also talk about science and art, psychedelics, consciousnesses and Eucharist, capitalism and the ecological crisis and the talk he'll be giving at the upcoming Whitehead conference in Claremont this summer. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 toward awesomeness ... hope you enjoy the brew! Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tripp chats with Leon Niemoczynski about a philosophical approach to sacred nature. Leon Niemoczynski teaches in the Departments of Philosophy and Theology at Immaculata University near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and he is also currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Niemoczynski's research focuses on the philosophy of nature, where he is especially interested in issues pertaining to philosophical naturalism, logic and metaphysics, aesthetics, German idealism, philosophical ecology, animal ethics, environmental philosophy, and environmental philosophy's relationship to the philosophy of religion. He is the author/co-editor of Animal Experience: Consciousness and Emotions in the Natural World (Open Humanities Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Sacred Nature: Prospects for Ecstatic Naturalism (Lexington Books, 2014) and as sole author, Charles Sanders Peirce and a Religious Metaphysics of Nature (Lexington Books, 2011). He has published in numerous anthologies and journals including Process Studies, The Review of Metaphysics, The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, and The Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, to name but just a few. His most recent book chapter covered the philosophy of Quentin Meillassoux and the radical theology of John D. Caputo, which was published in The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Indiana University Press, 2014). Leon is currently working on his newest book tentatively titled Speculative Naturalism: An Ecological Metaphysics which draws from the metaphysics and theological panentheistic-process perspectives of C.S. Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead, Gilles Deleuze, Friedrich Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, and Quentin Meillassoux. He resides in the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife Nalina. Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 The Secret Message of Jesus Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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