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 41 – Transfiguration

This weeks word is Transfiguration and as always Johanna is asking the hard questions. Let’s just hope her comparing Jesus to Freddie Mercury doesn’t get her struck by lightening.

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Episode 40 – Theodicy

The team is back together this week and taking on one of the most thought about things in theology: Theodicy.

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Episode 39 – Sign

This week Jason and Johanna talk about the importance and significance of Signs. Listen in as we work our way through the alphabet one stained glass word at a time.

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Episode 38 – Sermon

After a long Christmas hiatus (ie, Johanna is lazy), the gang is back, working our way through the alphabet one stained glass word at a time. Up next: ‘Sermon.’

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Episode 37 – Repentance

What the heck does Repentance even mean? This week Johanna, Jason and Teer tackle what biblical Repentance looks like without using stained glass language.

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Episode 36 – Resurrection

John 11 says Jesus is the “resurrection and the life.” But what does resurrection mean? The resurrection of Jesus Christ is considered to be the lynchpin of Christianity but scarcely anyone is talking about it apart from Easter or perhaps into…

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Pitch Dark

Advent has always been my favorite holiday season, and when I think of it, two memories float to the surface. One is dark and cold and the other warm and light. Because Advent is nothing if not dialectical…

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Episode 35 – Quadrilateral

Johanna, Jason, and Teer continue their way through the alphabet, one stained glass word at a time.

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Episode 34 – Quietism

What the hell sort of stained-glass words start with Q?
How about quietism? What’s that? You might be asking that question, still, after the latest episode.

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Episode 33 – Prayer

With Teer in jail without bail for indecent exposure and disorderly conduct, Johanna and Jason discuss an extra P-word: Prayer.

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