Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 219 – Stanley Hauerwas: Jesus is Lord and Everything Else is Bullshit

The Hauerwas Mafia pays homage to our namesake by going back to the vault to share our original interview with the one and only Stanley Hauerwas. Jason is determined to get his theological idol off his familiar tropes and talking points and does so…

Episode 218 – Phillip Cary: The Meaning of Protestant Theology

Jason and Teer caught up with Dr. Phillip Cary to talk about Dr. Cary’s new latest book, ‘The Meaning of Protestant Theology.’ Dr. Cary unpacks Luther’s gifts to the Protestant Church 500+ years removed from the Reformation and explains why Wesleyan…

Episode 217 – Jeffrey C. Pugh : Send Them Back

Our guest this week is Dr. Jeffrey Pugh, Professor of Religion at Elon University. Jeffrey is the author of books such as The Devil’s Ink, The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the End Times, and Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in…

Episode 216 – Thomas Lynch : Whence and Whither : On Lives and Living

Friend of the podcast, Thomas Lynch, rejoins us to talk about his new book, Whither and When: On Lives and Living. Thomas is an undertaker and poet whose work has garnered numerous awards, including the National Book Award for his collection of essays…

Episode 215 – Joel Goza : America’s Unholy Ghosts – The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics

For this episode, we talked with Joel Goza who is a Duke Divinity School alumni and now works as a church planter and for a non-profit in the 9th Ward. His new book is an important one, especially on Independence Day weekend. It’s titled America’s…

Episode 214 – Live Podcast: Jeff & Steve Mullinix: B.J. Unity

For the fourth year in a row, the podcast posse hosted a live pubcast to kick-off annual conference, this time at Ballast Point Brewery in Roanoke where we had over 200 folks attend. Our guests were Jeff and Steve Mullinix, who shared with us their…

Episode 213 – David Fitch : The Church of Us vs. Them – Freedom from a Faith That Feeds on Making Enemies

Friend of the podcast, the wild and crazy Dr. David Fitch is back to talk about his latest book, “Us vs. Them: “Freedom from a Faith that Feeds on Making Enemies.” Fitch talks with us about how ideological functions to shape our reading of scripture,…

Episode 212 – Joshua Retterer— Grace Is For Losers: A Conversation about Robert Farrar Capon

Jason and Taylor sat down with Joshua Retterer to talk about the late Robert Farrar Capon and his work. Their conversation touches on a number of subjects including eschatological nerve, an affair with a happy ending, laughing in church, and being…

Episode 211 – Winfield Bevins : Ever Ancient Ever New – The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation

Fresh on the heels of his Twitter face-off with Jerry Falwell Jr, Jason talked with Winfeld Bevins about his his new book Ever Ancient, Ever New. Actually, no, Jason talked to him months ago, before General Conference even and we’re posting it now to…