Theology Nerd Throwdown

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 relational approach found in process thought. Andrew will b...

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, Sex, and Salvation. Plus, Tripp talks to Troy about the Hive, a new p...

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 in the public sphere, today we often see hints of both schools...

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, and what it was like to be an original Jesus Freak with Jeff in the 60s and 70s. They also get...

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, dealing with doubt, the relationship between religion and science, evil and sufferin...

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 administration. The music video for Trey Pearson’s new single is out now, so check it out....

Are you ready to get real with Niebuhr? Scott Paeth, professor of ethics at DePaul in Chicago, is on for this edition of the Why Go? series. Today, Scott is giving us 5 reasons why we should go Niebhurian (Niebuhr is probably the most influential American theologian of the 20th century, FYI). Scott is also the author of The Niebuhr Brothers for Armchair Theologians. How, as Christians, are we to e...

To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year. Tickets for Theology Beer Camp in Denver (August 18-19) and Oklahoma City (August 25-26) are on sale now! But you better hurry, prices go up Friday! In this episode, Eric Hall, author of the Homebrewed Guide to God (on sale now), and Archbis...

To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year. Tickets for Theology Beer Camp in Denver (August 18-19) and Oklahoma City (August 25-26) are on sale now! But you better hurry, prices go up Friday! This is friend of the podcast, professor at Xavier, and author of the Homebrewed Guide to Sa...

Are you ready to get your heart strangely warmed? Next up in the Why Go? series, Thomas Jay Oord joins Tripp to talk about why you should go Wesleyan. Tom gives 13 reasons, including: God’s primary attribute is love God is triune God acts first in every moment to offer salvation, and humans freely respond to God’s offer God does not predestine some to heaven and others to hell God values and seeks...

We’re all Kierkegaardians, whether we know it or not. So why not hear 5 reasons to let Soren salt your theological grub. Stephen Backhouse, author of the new Kierkegaard biography, Kierkegaard: A Single Life, give us five reasons to embrace our Kierkegaardian inheritance. Why go Kierkegaard? There is not school or church of Kierkegaard. He made sure that there could not be. Instead, he is the salt...

This is an audiological taste of what happened at the first annual Theology Beer Camp. During this special session of theological tailgating Philip Clayton and Tripp got all processy and talked about Jesus, God, creation, science – all while a cornhole tournament happened below! If after listening to this you’ve got some questions about process theology you should let us know! We will be doing an...

This episode of The Theology Nerd podcast is the Why Go Barthian? Webinar with Travis McMaken. This is another installment of our ongoing Why Go? series. In this episode you will get 5 reasons why you should go Barthian, plus: What does it mean to be Barthian? Barth didn’t want people to be Barthians, he wanted people to be theologians who spoke critically and carefully about Jesus. The three phas...

This is a special bonus episode from the Questions for the Believing Skeptic course. We are in a period where the confidence of rationalistic accounts of religion don’t work anymore. There has been an explosion of religion expression that doesn’t fit neatly into any box. As good philosophers and theologian, this new situation requires trying to come up with words and thoughts to make sense of it....

This is a special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast. Homebrewed Community Member Jesse Thorson, a Junior at Columbia University and Outreach Team Leader at Columbia Faith and Action, put together this special Q&A session about Tripp’s Guide to Jesus (which is available for purchase wherever books are sold). They talk about: Historical Jesus Development of the doctrine of Christ The questions dr...

This is a very special episode of The Theology Nerd podcast: Epiphanation It’s always Epiphany when the Homebrewed Community gets together. What is Epiphanation? It is when we get together with the Homebrewed Community on Epiphany, discuss questions or topics that they have, live for 3 hours, while imbibing delicious craft beverages. To take part in the next Epiphanation and other Homebrewed event...

It’s time for The Theology Nerd podcast. We are relaunching this podcast stream (formerly TNT) with a multitude of formats, like Q&A, webinars, special HBC community events, and more! Make sure to click subscribe in wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode. For this Q&A episode, we tackle: the logical and ethical problems with penal substitutionary atonement how the Kung Fu Pand...

In the first episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman this season things take a different trajectory… Morgan goes on a search for ‘The Chosen One.’ Almost every faith has a figure believed to be chosen by God and some of them are alive today. The episode centers around Morgan’s interaction with a number of different ‘chosen ones’ and the different shapes they take across the globe and relig...

We are re-launching our TNT podcast as The Theology Nerd with these 5 Extremely zesty reasons you should go process!  Listen to (or watch) Monica Coleman give you: A theological perspective that inspires 5 theological challenges classical theology can't handle Basic concepts of Process theology you can grasp and use How to nerd out with Whitehead We are putting this up on both podcast streams to r...

What’s up Theology Nerds! This is a short and sweet little invitation of an episode for any listeners who want to take their life and leadership to the next level. As you probably know I am the Director of Theology and the Humanities at Hatchery LA, an experimental graduate school for launching alternative spiritual communities, and this past semester we started our first online certificate progra...

This is a post-election podcast. It is very fresh. Christian and I talk about our feelings, thoughts, anger, and hopes after the election. We discuss it in three parts: as a Citizen, as a Husband-Parent, and as a Christian.  At the conclusion we decided to have a future (more reflective) episode and invited listeners of both podcasts to join it via the SpeakPipe. You can do that here and add you...

On this special edition of the Story of God-cast you will hear from the one and only Morgan Freeman! It is kind of like talking to the voice of God about God. He joined fellow producer of The Story of God on the National Geographic Channel, Lori McCreary, for a conversation with Tripp about the series.  Afterwards Barry and Tripp dig into the sixth and final episode of the series on Miracles. Over...

The problem of evil has occupied humanity ever since it realized it was born to suffer, kill, and die. Every religious tradition has to deal with this reality and today we are gonna discuss it. In this episode we talk about the fifth episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – Evil. In this week’s podcast Barry, Tripp, and Princess Alice discuss eternal conscious torment, original sin, the e...

Religion, science, faith, God, history, anthropology, prayer, and a few other topics all solicit questions. At least a few of them get tentative answers this week.  In this episode we talk about the fourth episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – Creation.   In this week’s podcast Barry and Tripp discuss bones, ancestor veneration, SoCal pseudo-religion, Adam’s hidden bone under Golgotha,...

Who is God? That’s a question that’s easy to ask, hard to interpret and never quite answered.  In this episode we talk about the third episode of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman – about God. In the episode we will discuss the blues, the diversity and universality of God-talk, the emergence of polytheism and monotheism, Stonehenge and This is Spinal Tap’s Stonehenge, the role of culture in rel...