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Bo’s Top 10 from Theology Beer Camp

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It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black

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The Misplaced Concreteness of a Single Outcome + the God-Podcalypse

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What If We're Still in the Early Church? A TNT on Whether Religion Gets to Evolve

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A Baptized Neighbor-Neglecting Device

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Three Books and a Meme: on Brin, Gleick, Baudrillard, Debord, & The Contraction of the Present

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We've Engineered a World with Nothing to Say and a Listener with No Ears

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Performing for the Digital Slave Master: Bo Sanders's Strava Confession and the Hell of the Same

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Puff, Puff, Passages: Bo and Tripp on the Bible, the Ban List, and the Books We Would Take to a Desert Island

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The Angel of History, the End of History, and the End of the Liberal Subject

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America Was a Mirage: Kevin Carnahan on Why the Moral 1940s–1980s Was an Accident

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If an AI Says It Loves God, How Would You Test It?

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Over/Unders, Mount Rushmores, and Shooting Fish in Barrel

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I'm Unsinkable. I'm Already Dead: A TNT on Doubt, Faith, and the Galilean Vision

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The Pope, the Plantation, and the Algorithm: A Theology Nerds Throwdown

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They Love Your Questions — Just Not Your Conclusions: Tim Whitaker on Evangelicalism, Apologetics & the Sleight of Hand

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If This Is the End Times, I'll Be Your Huckleberry: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Theology

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The Hyperlink Permission: How Dispensational Eschatology Reads the Bible & Why It Gets Wild

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Big Nephilim Energy: A Field Guide

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Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan

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The Consequences, Not the Mechanism: What the Resurrection Narratives Are Actually About

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Spiritual Warfare to Spiritual Welfare: Bo's Four Stories of Reclaiming Charismatic Practice

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The Two Foundation Stones Holding Up Everything You Hate About American Politics

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The Podcast That Wasn't Supposed to Last 18 Years & Vintage Theo-Blog War Stories

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Seduced into Self-Exploitation: Liberation Theology for the Algorithmic Age

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Parables, Panopticons, and Pinterest

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From the Society of Spectacle to the Filioque Clause

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3 Letters.? 1 Pod!

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When Going to Church Makes It Worse: on Moral Bankruptcy of White Evangelicalism

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The A's Have It: Argument Culture, Adiaphora & Atonement Theories

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The Courage of Yes: Consenting to a God We Cannot Grasp

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No Room in the Inn: a Theology Nerd's Hallmark Christmas Story

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Venison Chili, Reindeer Farms, and the Spirit of Advent

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Taylor Swift, Bach, and the Death of Mainline Protestantism

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The Hour of Gratefulness

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Blood, Wounds, and Watch Words: A Deep Dive into Radical Moravian Theology

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Truck Stops Without Trucks & Churches Without Christians

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Why Your 'Biblical' Christianity Might Just Be Colonial Nonsense

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The One Where We Tried Something New and It Mostly Worked

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Against Empathy: When Christians Declare Compassion a Vice

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Religion Before Language: Why We Danced Before We Believed

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Heidegger Dreams and Chicken Interruptions: An Onto-Theological Throwdown

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Love at the Center: Tom Oord's Systematic Theology Project

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From Epstein to Palestine: The Common Thread of Basic Decency

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Bible Bonanza: What Verses Should Actually Be Read in Schools

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"You Met One Pharaoh, You Met 'Em All" - Remembering Walter Brueggemann

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The Great Untethering: Why Everything Feels Fake

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Tending to Questions: A More Hopeful Future for Liberal Faith

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Does Liberal Christianity Have a Future?

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State Mandated Bible Verses & Chronic Lonliness

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The BoDaddy Confessional: Faith, Cat Posters, and Tom Bombadil

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Dispositional Not Dispensational: on Territorial Spirits & Prayer Walking

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Co-Passion & Contemplation

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MAGA is Manifesting a New Civil Religion

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Bo’s got the gift of Prophecy?

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The Tech Takeover: Reimagining Connection in a Digital World

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The (Never-Ending) Crisis Edition

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In-Carnitas: Have Yourself a Street Taco Christmas

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Conserva-Curious?

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Bonhoeffer & Resistance

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The Real Power of Politics Question

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The Geek Stage at Theology Beer Camp

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The BoDaddy goes to his first Theology Beer Camp

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Tripp talks Bonhoeffer and gets fiesty about Eric Metaxas

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Political Substance Abuse

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The God Speaks? edition

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Post-Conflict Science & Religion

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Putting some Gods to Rest

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Daddy Votes, Co-Passion, & Processing Prayer

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Bo’s Backlash & Adolescence without a Smart Phone

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What’s Your Theological Sample Rate?

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The Post-Easter, Mo-Easter Edition

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Reversing the Goat & Baking Bread on Theology Nerd Throwdown

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The Fruit and Roots of Cultural Change on Theology Nerd Throwdown

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Theology Nerd Throwdown – The Return of the BoDaddy!

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Homebrewed Christianity’s 15th Birthday Party w/ the BoDaddy & Tony Jones

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Process This: the Power of Love & the Experience of God w/ Tom Oord & Andrew Davis

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim: Godly QnA

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Diana Butler Bass: the Over-Rated Genie God

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Camp Games & a Little Theology

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Diana Butler Bass: Bad Blood, Civil War, and other Soothing Topics

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Thomas Jay Oord: Process Theology QnA

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EuroTripp’n Tony

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Grace Ji-Sun Kim & Susan Shaw: What is Intersectional Theology?

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Joerg Rieger: Jesus vs Caesar

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Trilogies, Atonement Power Rankings, & Sex Work at Happy Hour

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Everyone You Ever Loved Will Die, so Merry Christmas!

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Kombucha, Meditation, Tarot, and Stink Bombs

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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

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Elgin goes to Mars

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Do Progressive Christians Want to Make Disciples?

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Close Encounters of the Theological Kind with Scott Paeth

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The Affinities Between Marxism and Christianity with Scott Paeth

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Are We in the Midst of a Cold Civil War? with Scott Paeth

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The 3 Best (and Worst) Theological Ideas with Brian McLaren

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Christian Parenting without Baggage? with Brian McLaren

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What’s the Point of Christianity? w/ Brian McLaren

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Evil: Part 2

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Evil: Part 1

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Should We Open the Canon, or Keep It Closed?

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