Author

About the Author
Dr. Johanna Hartelius is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Expertise (Lexington, 2011) and the forthcoming book The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons (University of California Press, 2020). When she's not explaining to Crackers and Grape Juice that rhetoric means something other than ornamentation and lies, she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes and tries to raise two little humans. Johanna is the host of You're Not Accepted.

Episode 60 : Baptism

Grace and Peace and Welcome to the newest episode of Hermenutics! Today Dr. Johanna has brought us the word Baptism. Listen as Jason, Johanna, and Todd discuss why Jesus needed to be baptised.

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Episode 59 : Blindness

This week the pod is talking about blindness and what it means to see, not only in reference to the biblical text but to everyday life as well.

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Episode 57 : We’re Back with Atheism

Hermeneutics, the Crackers and Grape Juice Show, hosted by Dr. Johanna Hartelius is back. Once again, Johanna and the gang will work their way through the alphabet one stained glass word at a time. To kick things off Jason and Teer joined Johanna to…

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Live Podcast Announcement!

The one and only Kara Slade will be joining Crackers&Grape Juice for a live pubcast next Wednesday (6/15/22) at 6:30pm in Hampton, VA at the St. George Brewing Company to help kick off Annual Conference. Her book “The Fullness Of Time” is a remarkable…

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Episode 55 : The Wedding

The ubiquity of scripture’s contrast between commands and promises, how those who want a Christianity without the Cross are stuck with inconvenient scriptures, and a picture of grace as Jesus serving the best wine for a drunk world too far gone to notice or appreciate it. The gang at Hermeneutics continues our new series through…

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Episode 54 : Barely on the Ground

The one where we talk about water and wine.

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Episode 53 : We’re All Perishing!

The gang from Hermeneutics is reading and discussing our way through John’s Gospel. Here’s part two of our conversation about John the Baptist and Jesus.   John 1:29-34

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Episode 52 : Christ the Cave-Dweller

Hermeneutics is back!

In this newest season of Hermeneutics, we’re tackling the Gospel of John, bit by bit. To kick things off we’re starting at the very beginning with the Prologue.

The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the…

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