Best Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts (2025)

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Four Questions About AI That Will Keep You Up at Night w/ Noreen Herzfeld | Theology Beer Camp 2025 51:27

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Computer scientist turned theologian Dr. Noreen Herzfeld tackles the most pressing questions about artificial intelligence through a theological lens. As we race toward artificial general intelligence while simultaneously destroying our planet's climate, could this be the "great filter" that explains why we haven't found alien civilizations? This g…

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Hanna Reichel: Navigating Faith in the Era of Authoritarianism 1:25:11

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Dr. Hanna Reichel returns to the podcast to discuss their timely devotional For Such a Time as This, which emerged from student questions about how theological wisdom applies to our current political moment. Drawing parallels between Trump-era America and the Weimar Republic, Reichel explores the muddy complexity of resistance, the dangers of purit…

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Aizaiah Yong - Swimming Against the Stream: How Contemplation Fuels Justice Work 1:27:31

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In this conversation with Aizaiah Young, we dove deep into what it means to live a contemplative life in our hyperaccelerated culture. Aizaiah, who works at the Collegeville Institute and draws from thinkers like Raimon Panikkar and Howard Thurman, made a compelling case that contemplation isn't passive navel-gazing—it's about bringing your full se…

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Grant Wacker: the Defining Moments of Religion in America 1:02:43

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What's up theology nerds! On this episode, I had the absolute privilege of sitting down with Dr. Grant Wacker, one of America's preeminent historians of religion, and man did he deliver. We dove deep into his fascinating "Bushman test" - the idea that when writing history, you should do so with the understanding that you might someday encounter you…

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Standing Firm: Bonhoeffer's Urgent Wisdom for Our Dangerous Times 32:14

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🍺 Bonhoeffer for Dangerous Times | Theology Beer Camp 2025 PreviewAre we living in the most dangerous times of our lives? Renowned Bonhoeffer scholar Jeffrey C. Pugh doesn't pull punches in this powerful preview lecture for Theology Beer Camp 2025. Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison writings, especially "After Ten Years," Pugh explores why t…

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Standing Firm: Bonhoeffer's Urgent Wisdom for Our Dangerous Times 32:14

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🍺 Bonhoeffer for Dangerous Times | Theology Beer Camp 2025 PreviewAre we living in the most dangerous times of our lives? Renowned Bonhoeffer scholar Jeffrey C. Pugh doesn't pull punches in this powerful preview lecture for Theology Beer Camp 2025. Drawing from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's prison writings, especially "After Ten Years," Pugh explores why t…

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Pete Enns: Kings, Prophets, and Politics: Ancient Warnings About Power and Justice 1:15:14

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We had Pete Enns back on the stream to dive deeper into questions from his "God of Justice" lecture, and man, did we get into some rich territory. Pete walked us through the fascinating tension between Deuteronomy 17's positive view of kingship versus First Samuel 8's harsh warnings - showing how the Bible itself contains multiple voices wrestling …

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Myron Penner: Five Ways Science Can Help Your Faith 1:22:33

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My friend Dr. Myron Penner - everyone's favorite Canadian Mennonite philosopher of science & religion - offers up five compelling ways that science can actually enrich rather than threaten faith. We move beyond the tired old "conflict thesis" between science & religion to explore how scientific discoveries can help identify factually suspect theolo…

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Elesha Coffman: The Christian Century and Mainline Legacy 1:48:27

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So I had the chance to sit down with Elesha Coffman, who's written what might be the only book entirely devoted to the Christian Century magazine, and we ended up diving deep into the whole messy question of what "mainline Protestantism" even means - which apparently stumped two past presidents of the American Society of Church History during her d…

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From Iron Swords to Nuclear Bombs: Tracing 3,000 Years of Escalatory Violence with John Dominic Crossan 1:22:40

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What an incredible conversation we had with John Dominic Crossan about distributive justice and the biblical vision for creation! Dom completely reframed how I think about Genesis - showing us that the Sabbath, not humanity, is the crown of creation, and that God's distributive justice isn't just a nice idea but the very fabric of how the cosmos is…

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Christian Witness in Catastrophic Times with Cornel West 1:56:07

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I had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Cornel West, one of America's most distinguished public intellectuals and philosophers, to discuss his historic Gifford Lectures, which marked a watershed moment in the series - bringing a jazz-soaked philosophical methodology to this centuries-old tradition of natural theology. West has spent decades at…

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Mark Vernon: Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination 1:20:22

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In this episode, we turn to the radical vision of William Blake with brilliant scholar and psychotherapist Mark Vernon. Mark argues that Blake isn't just a historical curiosity—he's a guide for rewilding our humanity in an age of spiritual flatness. We explore how Blake saw the collapse of cultural imagination coming 200 years ago, offering us a wa…

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Nichole Torbitzky: Student Beliefs & The Evolution of Faith on Campus 1:28:53

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I got an email from a retired university chaplain who'd hit a wall - after decades of ministry, he felt so culturally alienated from undergrad students that he didn't think he could do the job anymore. It made me think about my friend Nicole Torbitzky, who serves as both philosophy professor and university chaplain at Lindenwood University in Misso…

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Sitting by the River with Jesus: Trauma, Mysticism, and Communal Healing with Aizaiah Yong 1:24:03

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What if everything we think we know about trauma and healing is backwards? Today I'm talking with Aizaiah Young about his incredible new book "Trauma and Renewal" and honestly, this conversation blew me away. Isaiah survived a near-death motorcycle accident right after passing his PhD comprehensive exams (talk about terrible timing), and during a 1…

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When the Church Forgets Christ with Tim Whitaker 1:44:17

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In this episode, Tim Whitaker from the New Evangelical joined me for one of those sprawling conversations that somehow manages to connect Christian nationalism, the Democratic Party's moral cowardice, process theology, and whether buying burritos on payment plans signals the end of civilization. We started with our upcoming "God of Justice" class a…

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Randall Balmer: Myth Busting Evangelical Activism & Its Origins 1:29:46

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What if everything you thought you knew about why evangelical Christians became politically active was completely wrong? Today I sit down with one of America's greatest historians of religion, Randall Balmer, to do some serious myth-busting. We dive deep into what Balmer calls "the abortion myth" - the widely believed but false story that evangelic…

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Guillermo Bervejillo: The Structure of World History 1:34:22

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So I got pulled into this fascinating email exchange with Brian McLaren about Kojin Karatani's The Structure of World History, and it turns out there's this whole crew of organizers and academics who've been quietly working with these ideas to rethink everything from social movements to economic theory. My guest Guillermo Bervejillo—who went from b…

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Why Your Politics Need a Better Cosmology (Whether You Know It or Not) w/ Matthew Segall & Aaron Simmons 2:00:04

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You can join the Democracy in Tension online summit and get access to all the lectures today.⁠ You can WATCH this conversation on YouTube Dr. Matthew Segall is a transdisciplinary researcher and teacher who applies process philosophy to various natural and social sciences, including consciousness. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy…

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Four Questions About AI That Will Keep You Up at Night w/ Noreen Herzfeld | Theology Beer Camp 2025 51:27

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Hanna Reichel: Navigating Faith in the Era of Authoritarianism 1:25:11

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Aizaiah Yong - Swimming Against the Stream: How Contemplation Fuels Justice Work 1:27:31

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Grant Wacker: the Defining Moments of Religion in America 1:02:43

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Standing Firm: Bonhoeffer's Urgent Wisdom for Our Dangerous Times 32:14

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Standing Firm: Bonhoeffer's Urgent Wisdom for Our Dangerous Times 32:14

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Pete Enns: Kings, Prophets, and Politics: Ancient Warnings About Power and Justice 1:15:14

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Myron Penner: Five Ways Science Can Help Your Faith 1:22:33

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Elesha Coffman: The Christian Century and Mainline Legacy 1:48:27

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From Iron Swords to Nuclear Bombs: Tracing 3,000 Years of Escalatory Violence with John Dominic Crossan 1:22:40

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Christian Witness in Catastrophic Times with Cornel West 1:56:07

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Mark Vernon: Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination 1:20:22

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Nichole Torbitzky: Student Beliefs & The Evolution of Faith on Campus 1:28:53

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Sitting by the River with Jesus: Trauma, Mysticism, and Communal Healing with Aizaiah Yong 1:24:03

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When the Church Forgets Christ with Tim Whitaker 1:44:17

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Randall Balmer: Myth Busting Evangelical Activism & Its Origins 1:29:46

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Guillermo Bervejillo: The Structure of World History 1:34:22

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Why Your Politics Need a Better Cosmology (Whether You Know It or Not) w/ Matthew Segall & Aaron Simmons 2:00:04