Today on Crackers and Grape Juice, we shared an interview I did with Alicia Crosby and AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez who both participated in the Standing Rock gathering last month. They shared powerful testimony about what it’s like to be in a comm

Satan, Beyonce, and Jesus the Problematic Fave

Sep 6th, 2016

This week on Crackers and Grape Juice, I talked with one of my favorite people Jarell Wilson. We started off talking about Satan, but as our conversations often go, we went a whole lot of places. One of the basic unresolved dilemmas that we rai

Is Jesus the only way to God?

Aug 24th, 2016

This week’s Crackers and Grape Juice episode addressed the question “Is Jesus the only way to God?” We answered this question as we answer most questions by saying it depends on what you mean. The most common Bible verse that people cite when t

My conversation with Shane Blackshear

Aug 21st, 2016

A couple of weeks ago in Austin, I got to talk about my book on a live podcast event with Shane Blackshear for his podcast Seminary Dropout. You should definitely subscribe to his podcast! We covered a lot of ground in scripture including the G

What is the gospel?

Aug 16th, 2016

In our latest podcast on Crackers & Grape Juice, we respond to the question in a recent Confessing Movement newsletter: “What is the gospel?” As is often the case, I was put in the strange position of defending the conservative evangelicals. As

Emily Joy’s poetic heart

Jul 30th, 2016

Emily Joy was my final Wild Goose interview. She grew up in a homeschooling fundamentalist Christian family and went to college at Moody Bible Institute. Like many fundamentalists, Emily was taught that the intuitions of her heart were evil. Pa

Bec Cranford: tattooed Pentecostal wonder-woman

Jul 29th, 2016

I’m continuing to play catch up on my Wild Goose interviews for Crackers and Grape Juice. The fourth interview was with one of my best friends Bec Cranford. Bec really embodies the spirit of Wild Goose, which is to say she’s a wild, heavily tat

Brandan Robertson’s rich nomadic spirituality

Jul 28th, 2016

I’ve gotten way behind in sharing my Wild Goose interviews on the Crackers and Grape Juice podcast. If you haven’t heard of Brandan Robertson, you need to hear this interview and get his new book Nomad. Brandan grew up in very difficult circums

Sarah Heath’s contagious love

Jul 21st, 2016

If you’re a super nerdy Methodist and you know about the production Chuck Knows Church, you might be familiar with a series they did called “The Committee.” It’s a story about a dying church that puts together a committee to try to revitalize t

Does God ordain suffering to save people from being Calvinist?

Jun 8th, 2016

My title is intended to troll my Calvinist friend Derek and distract him from working on his German homework. In case you haven’t been privy to the latest evangelical drama that people like me think is the only thing happening in the universe,

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