Our goal is to bring the wisdom of the academy’s ivory tower into your earbuds. Think of each episode as an audiological ingredient for your to brew your own faith. Most episodes center around an interview with a different scholar, theologian, or philosopher.
The Medium Is the Message — Crossan on Parables, Provocation, and the Pedagogy of Jesus
👤 Episode 1
The Person, Not the Principle: How Bonhoeffer’s Christology Became Treason — and What Eric Metaxas Did With It
👤 Episode 2
The Reason Prayer Feels Impossible (And It's Not Your Fault) w/ Wes Ellis
👤 Episode 3
Tradition Without Traction Is Lame: An enclosed lake and a constitutional crisis w/ John Dominic Crossan
👤 Episode 4
Beer in the Temple? & What the Bible Actually Says About Alcohol w/ John Anthony Dunne
👤 Episode 5
Flying Saucers, Deep Incarnation, and the Covered Dish Dinner: Astro Theology with Ted Peters
👤 Episode 6
Are We Waiting for God, or Is God Waiting for Us? with John Dominic Crossan
👤 Episode 7
MAGA and the Post-Christian America: A Meditation on Power, the Cross, and the World We're Choosing
👤 Episode 8
What Would God's State of the Union Look Like? with John Dominic Crossan
👤 Episode 9
The Universe Is Alive and It Might Be Looking Back: Andrew Davis on Astrotheology
👤 Episode 10
Theses on Reactionaries: How White Evangelicalism Became America's Most Dangerous Ideology with Tad Delay
👤 Episode 11
Keeping Hope Alive: A Conversation with Rev. Jesse Jackson
👤 Episode 12
From Conflict to Collaboration: The Science-Religion Conversation We Need with Dr. Elaine Howard Ecklund
👤 Episode 13
Too Fast, Too Furious for Jesus: Justin Lin on Last Days
👤 Episode 14
The Cloud and the Kingdom: Discerning the Spirits of a New Economic Epoch
👤 Episode 15
Steve Bannon Is Not an Idiot: Reinhold Niebuhr's Unheeded Advice for a Democracy in Crisis
👤 Episode 16
When Neighbors Turn on Neighbors with Miroslav Volf
👤 Episode 17
Cheap Grace in a Red Hat, Stealing Bonhoeffer’s Fire: What Bonhoeffer Actually Meant—and Why It Condemns His Admirers
👤 Episode 18
The Bible and the Cosmos: Which Story Comes First? with Dom Crossan & Phil Clayton
👤 Episode 19
The Exhausted Soul and a World Gone Mute: The Economy That Ate Your Soul and Wants to Blame You
👤 Episode 20
A Tale of Two Gods: Why C.S. Lewis's Famous Argument Falls Apart with John Dominic Crossan
👤 Episode 21
Why Postliberals Want Authoritarian Power (And What to Do About It) with David Congdon
👤 Episode 22
Burnout, Burn Up, Burn It Down: Hartmut Rosa's Diagnosis of Modern Life
👤 Episode 23
Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: the Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism
👤 Episode 24
Practicing Love Without Being Naive About Power with Marvin Wickware
👤 Episode 25
Paul Tillich's Socialist Decision and the Crisis of American Christianity
👤 Episode 26
The Four Faces of "None": What the Largest Study of Religiously Unaffiliated Americans Reveals
👤 Episode 27
From Philosopher Kings to Billionaire Oligarchs with Tad Delay
👤 Episode 28
AI & Theology
👤 Episode 29
High-Friction Love: The Incarnation in an Age of Smooth Technology
👤 Episode 30
The Great Disconnect: When the Pulpit and the Pew aren't Speaking the Same Language
👤 Episode 31
Rian Johnson on Wake Up Dead Man – Murder, Mystery, and the Search for Grace
👤 Episode 32
Books for Your Friendly Neighborhood Theology Nerd
👤 Episode 33
From Garden to New Jerusalem: Why the Church's Economic Blindness Matters
👤 Episode 34
Bonhoeffer’s Witness Against Christian Nationalism
👤 Episode 35
When Empire Strikes Back: Herod, the Magi, and Holy Resistance
👤 Episode 36
NT Wright on Ephesians: The Church as a Small Working Model of New Creation
👤 Episode 37
Tolkien & Trump: The Professor or the Profligate with Dr. Craig Boyd
👤 Episode 38
Finding Our Way Forward: How Whitehead Shows Us Religion as Life's Creative Force
👤 Episode 39
How the Lectionary Kept Me Christian: Diana Butler Bass on Practicing the Year
👤 Episode 40
Community Over Cops: Building Justice from the Ground Up with Ross Halperin
👤 Episode 41
Is America Possible? with Corey Walker & Bill Leonard
👤 Episode 42
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas on the Big Screen
👤 Episode 43
Two Books, One Night: Finding Beauty in What We Can't Control with Diana Butler Bass & Andy and Kara Root
👤 Episode 44
Religion in the Making: Where Evolution Turns Up the Volume on Value
👤 Episode 45
An Adventure in Ideas: Discovering Whitehead's "Religion in the Making"
👤 Episode 46
Theology Beer Camp All-Stars Unite!!
👤 Episode 47
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson: Memory Loss, Rain Dancing, and Making Meaning
👤 Episode 48
Casey Sigmon: Agonistic Encounters, Holy Friction, and Real Worship
👤 Episode 49