Episode 17: Facing God, Facing Nothingness
The gang wrap up this series on Stan the Man by discussing Stanley’s Advent sermon, “Facing God, Facing Nothingness,” in his book, Without Apology.
Read MoreYou’re Not Accepted
Get ready for the Hauerwas Mafia to do what it does best. We’re going full Hauerwas on you.
On each episode of You’re Not Accepted we will discuss a different essay from the one and only Stanley Hauerwas. Stan the man will join us periodically and we will do our best to contain Jason the fanboy.
Go ahead and order yourself a copy of Resident Aliens and prepare to be Hauerwas’d.
***Do not worry, the back-catalog of (Her)Men*You*Tics will remain on this feed***
Episode 16 – The Christian Message, the Work of Theology, and the New Humanism
From his forthcoming book, Becoming Human, Johanna and Jason discuss Stan’s essay (on Karl Barth) “The Christian Message, the Work of Theology, and the New Humanism.”
Jason thinks this is a very good episode.
Read MoreEpisode 15 – Prayers Plainly Spoken
For the latest in our series of conversations about the work of Stanley Hauerwas, Johanna, Jason, and Teer talk about prayer and Stanley’s book “Prayers Plainly Spoken.”
Read MoreEpisode 14 – Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.
Johanna, Jason, and Teer discuss Stanley’s essay, ‘Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. Remembering: A Response to Christopher Beem.’ This essay was first featured in The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 1995).
The abstract:
“The…
Read MoreEpisode 13 – The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ
In this episode, the podcast posse discuss an essay by a frequent interlocutor of Stanley’s, The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ by James McClendon.
Read MoreEpisode 12 – Flannery O’Conner and a Christian Reading of American Literature
“Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America.” In this episode, the podcast posse discusses an essay Stanley wrote with Ralph Wood,…
Read MoreEpisode 10 – The Story of the Kingdom
Johanna, Jason, and Teer discuss ‘Jesus the Story of the Kingdom,’ one of the concluding chapters from ‘The Peaceable Kingdom’ (1983).
Christian ethics is about being schooled in the narrative of Jesus and discipleship. It is not about what you would…
Read MoreEpisode 9: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Political Theology
“The Gospel is not an answer to questions produced by human anxiety but a proclamation of a fact.”
In the latest installment of YANA, we discuss Stanley’s essay, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Political Theology,” from his book “Performing the Faith:…
Read MoreEpisode 8 – Patient Patience
Johanna and the boys sat down to talk about ‘Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick,’ co-authored by Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches. The essay was originally published in Christian Bioethics (1996, Vol. 2, No.2,).
During COVID-19…
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