We Are the Miracle: Schleiermacher and Soft Empire
This is the fifth live Q&A for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep in which Joerg and I got to Friedrich Schleiermacher: the father of liberal...
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Biblical Womanhood Came from a New Thought Press: Kristin Du Mez on Live Laugh Love
Kristin Du Mez signed the contract for this book about a week before Beth Moore tweeted about Jesus and John Wayne, and that book took on a...
Empire Hard, Empire Soft: Joerg Rieger on Las Casas and the Conquest That Learned to Be Nice
This is the fourth live Q&A for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep, and this week we're in the Americas with Bartolomé de las Casas — Joerg's p...
Every Empire Thought It Was the Exception: Barry Harvey on the American Shelf Life and What the Church Does Now
Barry Harvey is back with a book that puts madness, theocracy, and anarchism in the title. It's a collection of essays developed over his ca...
Anselm's God Can't Just Forgive: Joerg Rieger on Why That's Good News, Not Cruelty
This is the third live Q&A for The Christ Empire Couldn't Keep, and this week we did everyone's favorite theologian: Anselm. Here's the setu...
Embracing Division: Robert P. Jones on Unity, Justice, and the Lines We Have to Draw
Robbie Jones wrote a book called Backslide, and I went in expecting a chronicle of every way a Southern Baptist kid from Jackson, Mississipp...
Who Owns the Creed? Joerg Rieger on the Conservative Gimmick and the Surplus They Missed
Second live Q&A, and this week we went to Nicaea. Here's the setup, in case you're new: Constantine called the council, funded the bishops'...
You're Probably Assyria: Anna Sieges on the Book of the Twelve and the Empire You're Actually In
Al Mohler recently let the internet know he finds it a bit sus when a woman talks about the Bible on a podcast. Today's guest is one of four...
Is That Really a High View of Scripture? Craig Allert on Scripture, Canon, and the Story We Weren't Told
My dad had a giant church history timeline hanging in his office wall when I was a kid. And if you are a pastor's kid, you learn a lot watch...
Empire Goes All the Way Down: Joerg Rieger on What "Christian Nationalism" Misses
This is the first live Q&A for the new class, and Joerg Rieger came ready. Christ and Empire came out during my last year of div school, and...
Ancient Israelite Religions, Plural: Cynthia Shafer-Elliott on Household Shrines, Figurines, and Yahweh's Asherah
There is an entire content industry built on "biblical archaeology" right now — TV shows, YouTube channels, the House of David series on Ama...
Tripp Hijacks Religion on the Mind with Dr. Dan Koch
Dan Koch just finished a seven-and-a-half-year process and came out the other side a fully licensed clinical psychologist. So I did what any...
Constantine Is a Cipher: Tony Jones on the Emperor Everyone Uses and Nobody Knows
Tony Jones has been getting up early for ten years and refusing to talk to anyone until he has written for hours. Now we know why. Son of He...
Hope Does Not Exist": O'neil Van Horn on Making Hope and the Practice of Resurrection
My friend & Orbis editor, Dr. Tom Hermans-Webster, sent me this book with a note that said, "You're going to love this, Tripp. No, really, y...
We're the Ones Lamenting: James McGrath on Reading Revelation from Inside the Empire
Welcome to TBC 26 FM, the post-apocalyptic radio station broadcasting from the wasteland of late modern America. James McGrath — the Religio...
Faith Has Been Snorting Modernity This Whole Time: James K.A. Smith on the Trad Wife, the Manosphere, and Hegel
Jamie Smith is a Reformed philosopher — one of the first to put a Catholic mystic in the title of a book and then proceed to argue that it w...
Doubt Is the Door: Chaplains in the Trenches, George MacDonald, and the Bebbington Quadrilateral w/ Timothy Larsen
Dr. Timothy Larsen writes about serious, energetic faith in the places other historians assume the faith cannot really be. A Victorian Chris...
What If the American Revolution Had Failed? with Diana Butler Bass
Diana Butler Bass just got back from Ireland, where she and Richard escaped the Fourth of July — and she came home with the most stunning hi...
Thank God I Am an Atheist: Thomas Jared Farmer on Gianni Vattimo's Weak Thought
Gianni Vattimo — the Catholic-communist-gay Italian pioneer of pensiero debole (weak thought) — died in 2023, and the intellectual biography...
The MLK Monument Has No Jesus on It: Vincent Lloyd and Luke Bretherton on Secularism as Ideology
Political theology is finally having its moment — every op-ed columnist reaching for Christian nationalism, every neoreactionary tech founde...