You’re Not Accepted

Hosted ByDr. Johanna Hartelius

Discussing essays and sermons of Stanley Hauerwas


All Episodes

Episode 8 – Patient Patience

Johanna and the boys sat down to talk about ‘Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick,’ co-authored by Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches. The essay was originally published in Christian Bioethics (1996, Vol. 2, No.2,).

During COVID-19…

Episode 7: Reflections on God and Mental Illness

The gang discusses Stanley’s essay on mental illness and his memoir, Hannah’s Child:

“I refuse to attribute meaning to the despair that mental illness is, to believe that such despair can have meaning because, if all meaning is of God, the meaning…

Episode 6 – Don’t Use God As An Explanation

“If we ask the elderly to commit suicide in order to shore up the economy for their grandchildren, then their grandchildren won’t have lives worth living.”

In the latest installment of You Are Not Accepted, Jason and Taylor have a quick…

Episode 5 – Because It’s True

“ Jesus is the heart from which the truth must be spoken. Thus the truth that must be spoken is known only through witness. Because he is the truth we can speak the truth. That speaking the truth takes the form of witness means we are confronted…

Episode 4 – Preaching As Though We Had Enemies

“God is using this time to remind the Church that Christianity is unintelligible without enemies. Indeed, the whole point of Christianity is to produce the right kind of enemies. We have been beguiled by our established status to forget that to be a…

Episode 3 – You Are Not Accepted

Dr. Johanna, Jason, and Teer talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ essay whence the pod series name came, “You Are Not Accepted.” The piece is Stanley’s rejection of Paul Tillich’s famous sermon “You Are Accepted” and featured in his book, Unleashing the…

Episode 2 — Without Apology (with Stanley Hauerwas)

For Episode #2 of You Are Not Accepted, Stan the Man joins Johanna, Jason, and Teer to discuss the theology of preaching— and why dumbing things down for people just makes for dumb people— from his book Without Apology.

On each episode of ‘You’re Not…

Episode 1– Preaching In the Ruins (with Stanley Hauerwas)

Dr. Johanna Hartelius, host of Hemeneutics, is hosting a new podcast series for Crackers and Grape Juice called “You Are Not Accepted: Engaging Hauerwas on Holiness.” Every other Wednesday Johanna, Jason Micheli, and Teer Hardy will discuss a writing…

The Trailer

Get ready for the Hauerwas Mafia to do what it does best. We’re going full Hauerwas on you.

On each episode of You’re Not Accepted we will discuss a different essay from the one and only Stanley Hauerwas. Stan the man will join us periodically and we…