CGJ

Episode 267 – David Bentley Hart : We Are The Worst Of All

The one, the only David Bentley Hart joins Jason and Dr. Johanna Hartelius to talk about his latest book, Theological Territories: A David Bentley Hart Digest. In particular, we talk about an essay included in the Digest that’s timely for our current…

Read More

Episode 266 – The C&GJ Team: Quarantunes

“Sing lustily and with good courage.” John Wesley wrote those words in the Hymnbook for Methodist in 1761. We at Crackers and Grape Juice take those words seriously! Therefore we decided to bring you some of our current “Quarantunes” – songs that have…

Read More

Episode 265 – Bryan Jarrell: Growing Up in The Lost Cause

“The Lost Cause had taught me that faith, particularly faith in Jesus and going to church, was an indispensable part of what it meant to be a good person. But now that very same faith which The Lost Cause had commended was forcing a decision which…

Read More

Episode 264 – William Lamar: Bad Theology Kills

Rev. William H. Lamar IV joins Crackers & Grape Juice to talk about his latest piece featured in Faith & Leadership: ‘It’s not just the coronavirus — bad theology is killing us.”

The Rev. William H. Lamar IV is pastor of Metropolitan African…

Read More

Episode 263 – Tara Isabella Burton: Strange Rites

Jason and Teer are joined by author Tara Isabella Burton to discuss her latest opinion piece in the New York Times and new book, ‘Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World.’

From the publisher: “In Strange Rites, religious scholar and…

Read More

Episode 262 – Drew Hart: Who Will Be a Witness

Drew Hart joins Jason and Teer to discuss his forthcoming book, ‘Who Will Be A Witness ‘ (September 2020), the ghosts of America’s racist past, and what the Gospel says to us in a moment of pandemic, protest, and movement.

Drew G. I. Hart is a…

Read More

Episode 261 – Shea Tuttle: Exactly As You Are

We could all use the comfort of Fred Rogers right about now. Joining this episode of the podcast is author Shea Tuttle, the author of “Exactly as You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers.” Mister Rogers touched the lives of many, and that is an…

Read More

Episode 260 – Will Willimon: Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic

What does a theologian say to young preachers in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third Reich?

Karl Barth’s lectures on preaching amidst the growing cloud of Nazism in 1932-1933 resulted in the little book, Homiletics. In it, Barth takes his…

Read More

Episode 259 – Lee Camp: Scandalous Witness

“One major reason Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke is our failure to rightly understand what Christianity is.”

Our guest this week is Lee Camp, Professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville and host of the popular Tokens…

Read More

Episode 258- Malcolm Foley: Lynching Then and Lynching Now

Church Historian, Malcom Foley, joins us on the podcast to talk about the murder Ahmad Arbery within the context of the history of lynching in the American Church.

Malcolm is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Baylor’s Department of Religion, studying…

Read More