Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 254 – Johanna Hartelius: Why it’s time for a conversation about American anti-intellectualism

Expertise in the age of COVID-19 has been shaped by any fool’s ability to start a blog, podcast, or stand behind a podium. In this episode, Jason and Teer sat down with Mrs. Dr. Johanna Hartelius, host of You’re Not Accepted, to discuss the Op-Ed she…

Episode 253 – Thomas Lynch: Pestilence and Humanity 101

Now that I have no other office but Zoom, I’m inclined to curse the internet and whatever dolt of a father and whore of a mother that begat him. Except, thanks to the webs, a writer I admired has become a friend I hold dear. 

Thomas Lynch is back…

Episode 252– John Barry: The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won multiple awards. The National Academies of Sciences named his 2004 book The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, a study of the…

Episode 251– Wheaton College’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute: Preparing Your Church for COVID-19

To help your church plan and prepare for the impact of COVID-19, we talked with Kent Annan of Wheaton College’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute about their new manual, Preparing Your Church for Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Step-by-Step, Research-Informed…

Super Tuesday Special— Mark Lilla: The Once and Future Liberal

“People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse. If you want to save America’s soul, consider becoming a minister. If you want to force people…

Episode 250 — Phillip Cary : Good News for Anxious Christians

Have you ever struggled with “giving God control, finding God’s will, hearing God speak, or letting God work”? Do those phrases sound familiar and even spiritual, but when you try to apply them, they actually cause more anxiety, not less? Phillip Cary…

Episode 249– Fleming Rutledge: Maybe Some Things Shouldn’t Be Forgiven

Jason and Dr. Johanna Hartelius, co-host at C&GJ, have recently co-authored a scholarly journal on Karl Barth, Fleming Rutledge, and the rhetoric of apocalyptic preaching.

So what better time to revisit an old podcast from the very beginning of…

Episode 248– Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: A Revolution of Values

Fresh off Donald Trump blaspheming at the National Prayer Breakfast and dismissing Christ’s Sermon on the Mount to nary a complaint from the evangelical pastors in attendance, we’ve got Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove on the podcast to talk about his latest…

Episode 247 : Jennifer Powell Mc Nutt — Rehabilitating Calvin

What if we reconsidered Calvin and Calvin’s prioritizing of God’s power and sovereignty from the perspective of what Calvin was, a refugee, and from the hermeneutic of what his context makes his work, liberation theology?

Our episode today is with…