Crackers and Grape Juice

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

talking faith without stained glass language


All Episodes

Episode 92 – Robert Jenson: Don’t Thank Me, Thank the Holy Spirit

Podcast regular Kenneth Tanner, along with Chris Green had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Jenson. Jenson was described as the greatest living theologian by Stanley Hauerwas, and as “one of the most original and knowledgeable theologians of our…

Episode 91- Christy Thomas: Its Time. Blow Up The UMC

Christy Thomas is a retired UMC elder, author, and journalist. On her blog, ‘The Thoughtful Pastor’, she argues it is time to blow up the UMC based on structural issues that have become all too obvious during the UMC’s inability to find common ground…

Episode 90 – Martin Doblemeir: Searching for a New Niebuhr

Jason caught up with the founder and president of Journey Films to talk about their latest project, “An American Conscience: The Niebuhr Story”

From Journey Films: “An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story examines the career and global…

Episode 89 – Drew Colby: I’m a Racist (and So Can You!)

Drew Colby is a UMC elder, pastor, and one of the podcast’s biggest fans. He joined Teer & Jason to talk about racism from his white-liberal perspective.

Episode 88 – Scot McKnight: Angels Are Real

Kenneth Tanner and Morgan Guyton checked in with podcast favorite Scot McKnight. Topics covered include a little ribbing on Jason, politics, and Scot’s latest books, “Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science” and “The Hum of…

Episode 87 – Melissa Febos: Eucharist is Erotic

When the other guys on the podcast posse found out Jason’s guest, Melissa Febos, had written a memoir about her time as a dominatrix in NYC, they all got gun shy.

Their loss. I’m grateful to consider Melissa an (e) friend now.

Not gonna lie- and…

Episode 86: Addison Hodges Hart – Winsome to the World

Alternate Title: “Beard Envy”
Jason enjoyed a wide-ranging conversation with Addison Hodges Hart, the elder brother of David Bentley Hart- who was his student- and the author of the great books Strangers and Pilgrims and Taking Jesus at his Word. Not…

Episode 85: Daniel Kirk- A Man Attested By God

Daniel Kirk is a Ph.d., author, and host of the LectioCast podcast. His book, “A Man Attested by God: The Human Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels”, argues that we should read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke as stories about Jesus as an idealized…

Episode 84: Ched Myers – Binding the Strong Man

Morgan interviews Ched Myers to discuss what solidarity and resistance look like in the age of Trump and social media.

Ched is an activist theologian, biblical scholar, popular educator, author, organizer and advocate who has for 35 years been…