Crackers and Grape Juice

Hosted ByJason Micheli, Teer Hardy, Taylor Mertins, & Johanna Hartelius

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 287 – Mandy Smith: The Way is the Way

Our guest is Mandy Smith. Originally from Australia, Mandy Smith is a pastor and author of The Vulnerable Pastor: How Human Limitations Empower Our Ministry (IVP). Her next book, Unfettered: Imagining a Childlike Faith Beyond the Baggage of Western…

Episode 286 – Will Willimon: Preachers Dare – Speaking for God

Christian preachers dare to talk about God.

– Karl Barth

Our friend, mentor, and muse, Will Willimon, is back on the podcast to talk with Dr. Johanna (she’s got a crush on him), Teer, and Jason about his new book, Preachers Dare: Speaking for…

Episode 286 – Delvyn Case III: Deus Ex Musica

Delvyn Case III is a composer, conductor, scholar, performer, concert producer, and Professor of Music at Wheaton College of Massachusetts.

As a professional musician he works as a composer, conductor, and pianist, equally at home in the worlds of…

Episode 285 – Thomas Lecaque: Spiritual Warriors on Behalf of Donald Trump

“In their language of warfare spiritual and secular, Trump’s evangelical allies have been playing with a fire that may continue to burn long after they give up this contest…History is a wasteland of religious justifications for political activism,…

Episode 284 – Jerusha Matsen Neal: The Overshadowed Preacher

Our guest for episode #284 is Dr. Jerusha Matsen Neal, Professor of Homiletics at Duke. I had looked forward to talking with her. I left our conversation feeling grateful and delighted. I hope you enjoy it.

A graduate of Princeton Theological…

Fleming Rutledge: An Election Day Prayer

Our dear friend of the podcast and overall muse, Fleming Rutledge called in to offer a prayer for Election Day. As are all her prayers, this one is special.

Fleming is the author of many books including “The Crucifixion: Understanding the Death of…

Episode 283 – Gretchen Purser: Not My Party

Jason, Teer, and Taylor had a conversation with Gretchen Purser about the changes to the Republican Party throughout her career.

“’Trump says all the things we’ve always wanted to say.’ Really? Then what does it say about us as Americans if Trump’s…

Episode 282 – Heidi Neumark: Being Christian in the Wake of Trump

“Rather than resorting to Luther’s Law-Gospel binary to excuse the Presidents mendacity and self-justify support for him, Protestants should turn to Luther’s theology of cross which tells us that we should call a thing what it is…and the thing is…

Episode 281 – J. Todd Billings: The End of the Christian Life

“You are mortal. You are not indispensable to the world. Your life will come to an end. We’re not heroes of the world and we can’t do much. To what and to whom do we give ourselves in this short life? Lacking a journalistic account of the future…