Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

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…

Episode 280 – Douglas Harink: Resurrecting Justice

“Both sides are thinking that some how or another getting this or that party elected is good for Christians. I think my point of view is neither side is good for Christians. Because effectively they have become idolatrous powers that christians are…

Episode 279 – David French: Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation

Friend of the podcast and commentator at The Dispatch, David French, has a new book out that couldn’t be more timely and bracing. It’s called Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation. As a preview, here’s a…

Episode 278 – David Gushee: After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity

Our guest today is David Gushee, whose new book is “After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity.”

Dr. David P. Gushee (BA, College of William & Mary; Master of Divinity, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Master of Philosophy and…

Episode 277 – Richard Beck: Trains, Jesus, and Murder: The Gospel According to Johnny Cash

“Saints and sinners, all jumbled up together.” That’s the genius of Johnny Cash, and that’s what the gospel is ultimately all about.

Johnny Cash sang about and for people on the margins. He famously played concerts in prisons, where he sang both…

Episode 276 – Don Payne: Already Sanctified

“In many cases, particularly in the case Wesley, teaching on sanctification leads to versions of piety that border on individual narcissism…renditions of sanctification as a process or journey of the believer moving towards ever ascending degrees of…

Episode 275 – Ken Jones: Because I’m Free

More than half of American adults, including 30% of evangelicals, say Jesus isn’t God but most agree He was a great teacher, according to results from the 2020 State of Theology survey. So, back on the podcast is our friend, Ken Jones, to talk about…

Episode 274 – Malcolm Foley: Black Lives Matter