We review the movie Noah with J. Ryan Parker and then hear from the director and screenwriter.  Bo and J. Ryan chat about their upcoming posts for the movie and some of the concerns they had coming out of their viewings. Bo's post Noah: Inhabiting a R

Our guest today is Richard Falk - an international law and international relations scholar who taught at Princeton University for forty years. Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and taught at the local campus of the University of Cal

Randy Woodley is back on the podcast - this time for HomeGrown episode 4!  You can listen to Randy's first visit when we talked about his book or his second (at Wild Goose West) where Tripp snuck up on him with some 'concerns'. Randy's Book "Shalom and

The HomeGrown Christianity series is pleased to welcome Jen Butler to discuss creation-care and Christian perspectives. We talk about the unique opportunity of our times and the challenges that are posed when addressing eco-theology in a seminary setting

Who doesn’t love J.R.R. Tolkien, the mythology of Middle Earth, and getting to see Smaug (the most EPIC of all dragons) on the big screen?  If Led Zeppelin can sing about it and nerds can roll 12 sided dice about it, then it must be pretty awesome.  O

Who is Jesus Christ for us today?  Is there a way to even attempt to answer the question with intellectual credibility?  One of Germany's greatest theologians, Michael Welker, is on the podcast discussing his new book God the Revealed: Christology.  I

We are emergent Christian ministers who love being theology nerds. In each episode we talk to a theologian, philosopher, or Biblical scholar about the big questions of faith, doubt, ethics, and culture. It is our conviction that there is too much tasteles

Leah Kostamo is the author of 'Planted: A Story of Creation, Calling, and Community'.   She is the co-founded  A Rocha in Canada -- a Christian conservation organization that endeavors to show God's love for all creation. A Rocha's environmental center

It's a new year and time to meet a new theologian!  Gregory Walter is a professor of religion at St. Olaf in Minnesota and author of Being Promised: Theology, Gift & Practice -  one of the 5 books on the Theology Nerd's Christmas list.  In our convers

Santa & Jesus aren't white, Christmas isn't about Capitalism, the Pope isn't a Marxist leftist, the Christian Calendar is a hardcore form of resistance, and you find out that Roger Olson's own student turned Tripp into a Process theologian.  That is just