Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 272 – Jamie Howison: The Man Who Ate with Capon

Jamie Howison struck up an unlikely friendship with the irascible Robert Farrar Capon just before Capon’s death, and he’s on the podcast to talk about it, ministry, Cornel West, and John Coltrane….

Episode 271 – Simeon Zahl: The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience

“It is true that theological doctrines and religious practices do shape and form religious experience, but it is no less true that experience tends to resist such shaping and forming. Attention to the complex interaction of these two insights is a key…

Episode 270 – Fleming Rutledge: Elected & Rejected

For our latest episode, we’re bringing you a conversation Jason had with the inestimable Fleming Rutledge, at the beginning of the COVID quarantine, about God’s way of rejecting and electing throughout scripture.

Episode 269 – Ryan Newson : Cut In Stone

Our guest today is Dr. Ryan Newson, Professor of Theology and Ethics at Campbell University, about his new book, “Cut in Stone”: Confederate Monuments and Theological Disruption.”

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social…

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…

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…

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…

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…