Advent Week One….John Dominic Crossan….Homebrewed Christianity…..Your Questions…..Audio Goodness.  We are real excited to have Crossan back at the HBC podcast and this conversation is an awesome way to kick off our Advent podcast series.  In his first visit Crossan discussed his book “God and Empire” and this time we focus on your questions about his [...]

 

 John Dominic Crossan on The First Christmas: Homebrewed Christianity ep. 34 [53:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I am not sure this is what Phyllis Trible was thinking when she wrote ‘Texts of Terror,’ but then again if this musical takes off maybe they can get her to hep work on the sequel.

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John Dominic Crossan is making a return visit to the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast and this time I want your questions.  Crossan was gracious enough to commit to an interview focused around his book co-authored with Marcus Borg, The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’ Birth.  On top of coming back he [...]

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After Divinity school I decided to read somethings devotionally that I was assigned in school.  At the top of the list was the book of Numbers.  It is the account of Israel’s time in the wilderness between bondage and the entrance into the promise land.  On a post-it I wrote, “Read Numbers, it is full [...]

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This is week one of the Faith & Politics series here at Homebrewed Christianity.  We hope this series does a little bit to contribute to a broadening of the political conversation within the church.  Dr. Brueggemann begins by walking through his famous book “The Prophetic Imagination,” zeros in on the Prophet Jeremiah, and then explores [...]

 

 Walter Brueggemann on the 'Prophetic Imagination' for our Political: Homebrewed Christianity ep.27 [48:03m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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This is part two of our discussion with Warren Carter on his newest book “John and Empire.”  If you haven’t listened to part one, go check it out and then come back and get the conclusion to the conversation in this episode.  There is a bunch of background info, links, and such in the [...]

 

 The Gospel of John & Empire pt.2 with Warren Carter: Homebrewed Christianity ep.22 [34:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Preaching the Sermon on the Mount: The World It Imagines is not only a great book and help at preaching the texts you can loose your job over, but an appropriate read in the middle of the political party platforming.  Listening to both parties each night has made me confident that the church really needs [...]

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This week we are joined by New Testament scholar and professor at Brite Divinity School Warren Carter for the first part of a discussion on the gospel of John’s relationship to the Roman empire.  If you are a fan of his previous work on the gospel of Matthew (like me) then even you may [...]

 

 The Gospel of John & Empire with Warren Carter: Homebrewed Christianity ep.21 [47:45m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I preached this past Sunday and a number of people asked for the sermon, so promised to post it here.   Enjoy.

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This week we have professor Craig Atwood on the show for a great conversation about a good’ole heretic Jan Hus. I don’t want to steal the historical thunder of Atwood, but I am confident that for those who listen you will be inspired by a heretic from Church History who was killed by the [...]

 

 Homebrewed Christianity 13: A Faithful Flaming Heretic and Divinely Sanctioned Violence with Dr. Craig Atwood [66:54m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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