Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

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…

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…