Homebrewed Christianity

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller

Episodes 974
Avg. Duration 1h 18m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.6 (578)
Since Oct 2011
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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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.

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There Was a Time When God Was Gods with Ilia Delio

Jun 09, 2026 1h 26m

Ilia delivered the Axial Age lecture this past week from her temporary post in Germany, and the questions came in fast enough that we ended up touching the third rail of the whole class — the rise of…

Religion Has a Physiology: Ilia & Tripp on Why Rituals Come Before Beliefs

Jun 02, 2026 1h 20m

This is the first Q&A of The Future of Religion, and the questions did exactly what good questions do — they pulled the lecture into places I had not planned to take it. Ilia opens by reframing…

The Machine Is a God Image with Ilia Delio

May 30, 2026 1h 29m

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. The conversation ranged — from the brain mutation…

The Problem Is Not Poverty. It Is Wealth. w/ Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty

May 28, 2026 1h 21m

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 species of Baptist heritage, the small, ecumenical,…

Preaching in the WTF Zone: Leah Schade on Saying Something True When the News Will Not Stop

May 25, 2026 1h 9m

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 the only honest thing — I outsourced your…

The Darkly Radiant Struggle with Gary Dorrien

May 23, 2026 1h 26m

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 — Kelly Brown Douglas as the fourth womanist founder,…

Religion Before Belief: What's actually dying and what was always the deeper thing

May 18, 2026 23m

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 friendships, their sense of self together is collapsing, and…

James Cone Was Right: Gary Dorrien & Charlene Sinclair on Black Theology, the Lynching Tree & the Cry We Keep Not Hearing

May 16, 2026 1h 26m

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 moment Gary introduced her on this call was one of…

The Meme, the Madonna & the Fertility God: Andrew Root on Idolatry, the Church & Late Capitalism

May 15, 2026 1h 38m

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 actually a detour. Baal and the Gods of More is…

Binge-Watching as Spiritual Formation (And Not in a Good Way)

May 12, 2026 14m

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 hours, and I sat in front of the screen feeling a…

God Meets Us in Our Suffering: Rolf Jacobson on Cancer, the Theology of the Cross & Three Friends Who Went Through It Together

May 11, 2026 1h 30m

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 favorite people to argue theology with over a long…

Sacred Values and Street Power — The Theology of Organizing

May 09, 2026 1h 27m

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 despised him, and where two doorstep encounters…

Glimmerings: Miroslav Volf & Christian Wiman on Friendship, Faith & Letters That Pressed Them Both

May 04, 2026 1h 11m

Miroslav Volf is back, and this time he brought his friend — poet and theologian Christian Wiman — and their book Glimmerings, collection of letters exchanged over years of friendship that moves from…

A Story of Being Saved by Love and Grace: Gary Dorrien’s Memoir in His Own Words

May 02, 2026 1h 27m

Gary Dorrien is spending six weeks teaching the history of Christian social ethics in America — and this week Aaron and I turned the lens on Gary himself, which he immediately identified as the worst…

America is Obsessed with Problems but Denies Catastrophe

Apr 28, 2026 24m

Cornell West says America is obsessed with problems but denies catastrophe — and the moment you reduce the catastrophic to the problematic, you have already deodorized the discourse, sanitized it,…

Gary Dorrien on the Niebuhr You Thought You Knew

Apr 26, 2026 1h 30m

Gary Dorrien is the Niebuhr Chair at Union, and nobody alive can walk you through the whole arc of Reinhold Niebuhr with his range — from the German-American pastor's kid at Elmhurst and Eden, to the…

The Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Nonviolence as Metaphysical Revelation

Apr 22, 2026 39m

There is a habit in Western theology so old it feels like air: imagining God as the supreme instance of coercive power — the divine despot whose omnipotence is measured by the capacity to override…

What Would a New Abolition Be? Gary Dorrien on the Black Social Gospel, Ida B. Wells & Reverdy Ransom

Apr 20, 2026 1h 14m

This is the first live Q&A for Theology for Troublemakers — the class Gary Dorrien, Aaron Stoffer, and I have been building for exactly this moment — and if the questions that came in after the…

Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan

Apr 17, 2026 2h 10m

So many clergy members and theology nerds messaged me after JD Vance told the Pope to dial back the theology talk that I had no choice — I called my friend Kevin Carnahan, co-editor of the Journal of…

I Thought I Was a Doctor: Trump, the Pope & the Most Chaotic Week in Religion News with Diana Butler Bass

Apr 16, 2026 1h 28m

It's Ruining Dinner with Diana Butler Bass on Tax day! Also, apparently, the day the Vice President told the Pope to stop doing theology. Diana Butler Bass joined me for what was supposed to be a…

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