Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


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Episode 246: Douglas Campbell— Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love

Our guest today is Douglas Campbell, Professor of New Testament at Duke. His new book, Pauline Dogmatics, unpacks the eschatological heart of Paul’s gospel in his world and its implications for today

Drawing upon thirty years of intense study and…

Episode 245 : Will Willimon – Separation Sadness

“Go ahead. Get your church all cleaned up. Have everyone swear to your cherished ideology. What are you going to do about Jesus? Our Lord refuses to keep reaching out and bringing in the ‘wrong’ people making my church more complicated than I would…

Episode 244 : Fleming Rutledge— Help My Unbelief

Back on the podcast at last, the peerless Fleming Rutledge joins Jason to talk about the 20th Anniversary Edition of her book, Help My Unbelief. In addition to her book, Fleming reflects on the conservative/progressive divide in the Church, the LGBTQ…

Episode 243: Stanley Hauerwas— You Are Not Accepted

You’re Not Accepted.

That is a hard truth to swallow.

Today’s episode is a preview for you, a tasting if you will, of our latest project; ‘You’re Not Accepted.’ The podcast formerly known as Hermeneutics has received a makeover since we finished…

Episode 242 : Ryan Couch – Fencing Grace

What happens when a presidential candidate is refused communion at church? Jason and Taylor got together with Ryan Couch to talk about that very thing with regard to a recent event with Joe Biden. In a world where sacramental practices are practiced…

Episode 241: Mark Galli — What Evangelicals Could Learn from Karl Barth

Mark Galli recently set off a Twitter war and a media feeding frenzy for his editorial in Christianity Today, of which Galli is editor-in-chief, arguing for the removal of President Donald Trump. While Trump labled CT a “far-left” magazine, it is in…

Episode 240— Robert Hart: A Christmas Fugue for You

Fr. Robert Hart is the Rector of Saint Benedict’s Anglican Catholic Church in Chapel Hill, NC, a contributing editor of Touchstone, A Journal of Mere Christianity, and frequent contributor to The Continuum blog. He’s an incredible music fan, and…

Episode 239 : Amy Laura Hall – A Woman at War with War

I’m thrilled to have made friends with Dr. Amy Laura Hall. Not only is she back on the podcast to talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ influence on her work and theology, she’ll be our special guest in June at our annual live podcast at Annual Conference in…

Episode 238 : Dr. Thomas Lecaque— The Apocalyptic Myth that Helps Explain Evangelical Support for Trump

Thomas Lecaque teaches Religious History at Grand View University in Iowa. He recently authored an article in the Washington Post that caught our attention, entitled “The Apocalyptic Myth that Explains Evangelical Support for Trump.”

You can find…