150 episodes

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.

Homebrewed Christianity Podcast Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

    • Religion & Spirituality
    • 4.6 • 529 Ratings

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.

    Diana Butler Bass & John Dominic Crossan: The Resurrection of Jesus

    Diana Butler Bass & John Dominic Crossan: The Resurrection of Jesus

    This week, we are joined by Diana Butler Bass as we discuss the historical Jesus, the resurrected Christ, and a host of questions from members of the online class.

    To join the class, head over to www.CrossanClass.com



    Diana Butler Bass, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, popular speaker, inspiring preacher, and one of America’s most trusted commentators on religion and contemporary spirituality.

    Previous Episodes with Diana & Tripp



    * 2024: The Sequel

    * The Christology Ladder

    * The Indictment Edition of Ruining Dinner

    * American Saints in a Cynical Age

    * Ruining Dinner… and Date Nights

    * Welcome to the Post-Christian Century

    * Ruining Christmas Dinner

    * Ruining Election Night Dinner

    * The Over-Rated Genie God

    * Bad Blood, Civil War, and other Soothing Topics

    * Shall the Fundies (Keep) Winning?, Abortion, and Black Holes

    * Theology and Spirituality in a Time of Rupture

    * White Evangelical Theopolitics, John Shelby Spong, & Jesus

    * 20 Years of Religious Decline

    * Jesus After Religion and Beyond Fear

    * Ruining Dinner with Diana Butler Bass and Robyn Henderson-Espinoza

    * Evangelical Decline, the Supreme Court, and the Horizon of Possibility

    * Debating, Praying, and Living with Tyrants

    * Religion, Politics,

    • 1 hr 38 min
    What is happing at Theology Beer Camp 2024?

    What is happing at Theology Beer Camp 2024?

    I’m excited to announce that tickets for Theology Beer Camp are now on sale! This year, we’ll be hanging out October 17th to 19th in Denver, Colorado. Grab your calendar and save the dates to join 20+ scholars, 20+ God-Pods, and over 500 people like yourself.

    As always, this year promises to be filled with enlightening discussions, delicious brews, and the opportunity to connect with like-minded theology enthusiasts. This year’s confirmed keynote speakers include Ilia Delio, Brian McClaren, John Thatamanil, and Diana Butler Bass!! We will be announcing more speakers, podcasters, musicians, and more over the next few months, including several exciting additions to the camp expereince.

    To learn more about the event, our lineup of speakers, and what’s in store for you at Theology Beer Camp, check out the event website at theologybeer.camp. We will keep updating the site as we reveal more details and contributors.

    I love Theology Beer Camp and spend all year planning and thinking about how to level up the fun each year. My favorite part is getting to meet so many of you in person. Take advantage of this certified zesty opportunity to dive deep into theological nerdom while enjoying tasty beverages and building lifelong connections with other great nerds!

    Presale tickets end soon! Get your tickets today.













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    • 33 min
    Robert N. McCauley: Religion is Natural & the Cognitive Science of Religion

    Robert N. McCauley: Religion is Natural & the Cognitive Science of Religion

    People often ask me, “Tripp, in 17 years of podcasting, what’s your favorite interview?” I can never answer the question because there are so many different kinds of interviews. I love episodes with my scholarly friends who repeatedly return to the podcast, but for this nerd, I am thrilled to introduce listeners to scholars who rocked my world. In this episode, I talk with a legend in science and religion, Dr. Robert McCauley. He is a pioneer in the cognitive science of religion, and his work has greatly impacted the academic community. It was an honor to unpack so many themes in his work and I can’t wait for y’all to hear it!

    Robert N. McCauley is William Rand Kenan Jr. University Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and the founding Director of Emory’s Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture. He is the author of Why Religion Is Natural and Science Is Not and Philosophical Foundations of the Cognitive Science of Religion. He is also the co-author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion and Bringing Ritual to Mind. With George Graham, he co-authored Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind: What Mental Abnormalities Can Teach Us About Religions. He has been elected president of both the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion, and he will serve as a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen in 2021.

    Are you new to the cognitive science of religion? If so, you won’t want to miss Bob’s regular columns at Psychology Today.

    In this conversation, we discuss…



    * the origin of the cognitive science of religion

    * implicit cognition and its role in studying religion

    * the anthropological story of religion’s birth

    * why religion is natural, and science is not

    * how literacy reshapes human cognition and the shape of religion

    * the changing role of science in the study of religion

    * the power of explanatory pluralism

    * what light on religious practice and experience is gained through the application of an evolutionary lens

    * the different evolutionary theories of religion and how they interact with the developmental psychology

    * how CSR can be a tool for understanding culture



    Here are two lectures if you want to dig into more of Bob’s work















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    • 2 hr 4 min
    Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & John Dominic Crossan: Critical Scholarship for a Faithful Disciple

    Jennifer Garcia Bashaw & John Dominic Crossan: Critical Scholarship for a Faithful Disciple

    This week, we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Garcia Bashaw as we discuss how historical Jesus scholarship can challenge and shape Christian practice, along with a host of questions from members of the online class.

    To join the class, head over to www.CrossanClass.com



    Jennifer Garcia Bashaw (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Ministry at Campbell University in North Carolina. She is an ordained Baptist minister and has a passion for teaching the Bible and training pastors. Jennifer is a Nerd-in-Residence for the Bible for Normal People and is the author of Scapegoats: The Bible through the Eyes of Victims & The Gospel of John for Normal People.

    Jennifer’s Previous Visit to the Podcast



    * the Gospel through the Eyes of the Victim



    John Dominic Crossan, professor emeritus at DePaul University, is widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian, God and Empire, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Greatest Prayer, The Last Week, and The Power of Parable. He lives in Minneola, Florida.

    Previous Podcast Episodes with Dom & Tripp



    * Brian McLaren & John Dominic Crossan: The Message of Jesus & the Judgement of Civilization

    * Brian Zahnd & John Dominic Crossan: God, Violence, Empire, & Salvation

    * Why the Biblical Paul is Awesome

    * Christian Resurrection & Human Evolution

    * The Cross & the Crisis of Civilization

    * The Coming Kingdom & the Risen Christ

    * The Parables of Jesus & the Parable of God

    * How to think about Jesus like a Historian

    * the Last Week of Jesus’ Life

    * Jesus, Paul, & Bible Questions

    * Saving the Biblical Christmas Stories

    * the most important discovery for understanding Jesus

    * The Bible, Violence, & Our Future

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    • 1 hr 27 min
    John Caputo: What to Believe?

    John Caputo: What to Believe?

    John Caputo is back on the podcast! If you are new to Homebrewed Christianity, you may not be familiar with Jack. Still, he is a longtime friend of the pod, a top-tier postmodern philosopher who radically returned to his theological roots. In his new book What to Believe? , he gives a beautiful introduction to his articulation of radical theology inspired by a Tillichian departure.

    If you no longer “believe in God,” the Supreme Being of classical theology, or you never did in the first place, is there anything you still ought to believe, anything you should cherish unconditionally, no matter what? In this lively and accessible book, addressed to believers, “recovering” believers, disbelievers, nonbelievers, and “nones” alike?to anyone in search of what they really do believe?the acclaimed philosopher and theologian John D. Caputo seeks out what there is to believe, with or without religion.

    John David Caputo (born October 26, 1940) is an American philosopher who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University. Caputo is a major figure associated with postmodern Christianity and continental philosophy of religion, as well as the founder of the theological movement known as weak theology. Much of Caputo’s work focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, deconstruction and theology.

    Previous Episodes with Jack



    * Tillich and a Radical Theology of Culture 

    * John Caputo on the End of Religion

    * The John Caputo Book Party!

    *  the journey form Radical Hermeneutics to the Weakness of God

    * Homebrewed Christianity’s 5th Birthday with John Caputo 

    * Get Lost in Order to be Saved! John Caputo on Radical Theology

    * John Caputo says “GOD…perhaps”

    * on the Future of Continental Philosophy

    * Why Go Derrida with John D. Caputo

    * Caputo Returns

    * Stargazing with Nietzsche and Caputo

    * Keller-riffic + Caputo Tells Pete the “lack” is BS

    * Theology For the Sub...

    • 1 hr 25 min
    Brian McLaren & John Dominic Crossan: The Message of Jesus & the Judgement of Civilization

    Brian McLaren & John Dominic Crossan: The Message of Jesus & the Judgement of Civilization

    This week, Brian McLaren and John Dominic Crossan join us as we discuss Jesus’s civilizational significance, hear his teachings in their historical context, examine the habit of interpreting Jesus against his intentions, and answer a host of questions from members of the online class.

    To join the class, head over to www.CrossanClass.com



    Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English

    teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working with people of all faiths for the common good. He is a faculty member of  The Living School and podcaster with Learning How to See, which are part of the Center for Action and Contemplation. He is also an Auburn Senior Fellow and works closely with the Wild Goose Festival, the Fair Food Program, Vote Common Good, and Progressive Christianity. His recent projects include an illustrated children’s book (for all ages) called Cory and the Seventh Story and The Galapagos Islands: A Spiritual Journey, and Faith After Doubt. His newest book is Do I Stay Christian? and we are going to read it together.

    Previous Episodes with Brian



    * Should I Stay Christian if I Don’t Believe?

    * a God Worthy of Love

    * Saying Yes to Christianity

    * Questioning Christianity

    * Do I Stay Christian?

    * God – Pray – Driscoll

    * Faith Beyond Fear in an Age of Terror

    * 20 Years of Religious Decline

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    • 1 hr 23 min

Customer Reviews

4.6 out of 5
529 Ratings

529 Ratings

screeming mimi ,

Wish I was smarter

Love this pod cast, but it does stretch my brain a bit. It always leaves me with more to research, think about, and try to understand.

littlegale ,

Balthasar and Bulgakov Please!

Please feature more Patristic scholars, Women in the Early Church scholars, and some of the great RC and EO thinkers such as Balthasar and Bulgakov.

BillieWay ,

The Zestiest God-Pod

Tripp and all his friends and guests have changed my life and 3 years ago completely rocked my world after I learned about Homebrewed from starting listening to A People’s Theology in 2020. I immediately joined Tripp and Tom Oord’s Being Christian class and the rest is history*

It has been so extremely rewarding to travel this open and relational journey for the past three years. I’ve been lucky to do lay preaching on process and ORT themes, and talked to many friends about Homebrewed and have “shared the brew” and tried to lure others to the #ProcessParty.

Because I got into process philosophy and O.R. theology during my undergrad in philosophy, it was very exciting to think about Hegel’s mutual recognition and Heidegger’s being-in-the-world having already been into a dynamic ontology of entanglement and flux. In fact, as a PHIL101 supplemental instructor after undergrad, I presented to a class on an open and relational answer to the problem of evil.

Thank you Tripp and friends!

*has been taken up into the life of God who then provides novel possibilities for my future in each moment as we co-create together, knowing the past may perish in memory and “in” time, while at the same rime the life of the world becomes objectively immortal in the mind of God as God shares in the experience of all creation (and makes experience possible at all)

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