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The Machine Is a God Image with Ilia Delio
Ilia Delio and I sat down a week before The Future of Religion class opens, in front of 500 people who already knew what they were signing up for. Th…
15 hours ago
The Problem Is Not Poverty. It Is Wealth. w/ Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty
Some conversations want to be in a coffee shop, not a studio — and this is one of them. Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty and I share a particular endangered sp…
2 days, 16 hours ago
Preaching in the WTF Zone: Leah Schade on Saying Something True When the News Will Not Stop
The volume of "I genuinely don't know what to preach anymore" emails landing from clergy has become its own data set. Pastors are not okay. So I did …
5 days, 21 hours ago
The Darkly Radiant Struggle with Gary Dorrien
Gary Dorrien joins me and Aaron to close out six weeks of Theology for Troublemakers with a session that covered more ground than any before it — Kel…
1 week ago
Religion Before Belief: What's actually dying and what was always the deeper thing
Most weeks now I get an email from someone who's sure they've believed a lie their whole life — that the faith holding their family, their friendship…
1 week, 5 days ago
James Cone Was Right: Gary Dorrien & Charlene Sinclair on Black Theology, the Lynching Tree & the Cry We Keep Not Hearing
Week five of Theology for Troublemakers, and we finally got to James Cone — which meant we got to Charlene Sinclair, and I want you to know that the …
2 weeks ago
The Meme, the Madonna & the Fertility God: Andrew Root on Idolatry, the Church & Late Capitalism
Andy Root is back, and this time he's got a fertility god on the cover of his book — which, if you've been paying any attention to his work, is not a…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Binge-Watching as Spiritual Formation (And Not in a Good Way)
A year ago I started binge-watching shows during workouts and didn't notice when it became a problem. Then a new season dropped, I finished it in 48 …
2 weeks, 4 days ago
God Meets Us in Our Suffering: Rolf Jacobson on Cancer, the Theology of the Cross & Three Friends Who Went Through It Together
Rolf Jacobson is back — psalm scholar, dean at Luther Seminary, co-author of the Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Old Testament, and one of my fa…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Sacred Values and Street Power — The Theology of Organizing
Gary Dorrien came to organizing the hard way — canvassing for McGovern in Alma, Michigan in 1972, where people didn't just oppose the candidate, they…
3 weeks ago