Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 260 – Will Willimon: Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic

What does a theologian say to young preachers in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third Reich?

Karl Barth’s lectures on preaching amidst the growing cloud of Nazism in 1932-1933 resulted in the little book, Homiletics. In it, Barth takes his…

Episode 259 – Lee Camp: Scandalous Witness

“One major reason Christianity in America has been made into a bad public joke is our failure to rightly understand what Christianity is.”

Our guest this week is Lee Camp, Professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville and host of the popular Tokens…

Episode 258- Malcolm Foley: Lynching Then and Lynching Now

Church Historian, Malcom Foley, joins us on the podcast to talk about the murder Ahmad Arbery within the context of the history of lynching in the American Church.

Malcolm is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Baylor’s Department of Religion, studying…

Episode 257 – Katherine Stewart: The Power of Christian Nationalists in Trump’s America

Our guest this week is Katherine Stewart, a journalist at the New York Times. Katherine’s investigative work has focused on the Religious Right and Christian Nationalism. She talks with us about the influence they have had on the Trump White House,…

Episode 256 — Brian Stolarz & Dewayne Brown :The Innocence Files

For this special episode, we talked with my friends Brian Stolarz and Dewayne Brown about their new documentary film on Netflix, The Innocence Files. The movie tells the story of Dewayne’s wrongful conviction for a cop-killing in Houston, his ten plus…

Episode 255 — Jack Levison: Mouth-to-Mouth Re-Creation

Our guest this week is Professor Jack Levison, author of numerous books including the recent works The Holy Spirit Before Christianity and Boundless God. 

Jack was a fun, funny, engaging, and insightful guest– plus, he did his homework enough to…

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…