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Friday Apr 28, 2023
Friday Apr 28, 2023
“The Truth about The Truth" with Kerri Fisher! (part 1)
We are inundated with messages that beg us to embrace the world in black-and-white but the myths of "common sense" and "one-right-way" are tools of supremacy seeking to limit imagination and thus liberation not only for those of us who are marginalized but for those who bear the burden of being the witness, accomplice, or perpetrator of violence in the world. Many of us are on the path to embody more non-binary, diunital, both/and/and ways of being human, but how do we practically embrace truth in the various dimensions, tensions, and contradictions where it lives without losing our identities--without altogether losing our way?
Get ready for some brewtastic goodness as Janel & Ryan sit down with the Kerri Fisher! The force is strong with this one...
Bio
Kerri Fisher is a creative non-fiction writer and poet who explores black and biracial identity in the American South. Her work has been recognized by the Writer's League of Texas, The Collegeville Institute, and The Mayborn Literary Non-Fiction Conference. Her poetry has been featured in Apricity Magazine and The MockingHeart Review. Kerri is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Social Work Educator, and regularly invited speaker/ DEI Consultant on topics including cultural humility, intersectionality, supremacy culture, and anti-oppressive practices. Find Kerri's creative work at:
https://www.instagram.com/blackwhiteotherblog/ & https://www.kerrifisher.com.
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Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Sunday Mar 05, 2023
Spoiler Alert: We are all going to die! (and Janel apologizes up front for saying milieu wrong.)
So, let's brew theology with the Death Scholar!
Grief theory until now is largely the product of the Protestant (and white) experience, and often emphasizes the Remembering of the Dead, rather than the Care of the dead, stressing the importance of grief “work” and grief “tasks” while working to a goal of reintegration without the deceased. There are some lingering problems with contemporary grief theory... Relationships with the dead are not static ones, but changing and valuable ones that will continue to develop as we move through life. Join Ryan and Janel as they get to chat it up with Dr. Candi Cann as she speaks about the importance of reframing death and a healthier posture of grief that comes with it... (Part 1) You can now order Dr. Cann's new book, Death and Religion: The Basics on Amazon (or wherever you like to buy books!)
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Dr. Candi K. Cann, Associate Professor of Religion in the BIC, teaches at Baylor University in both the BIC and the Religion department. She received both her A.M. and Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Harvard University, an M.A. in Asian Religions from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and a B.A. in Asian Studies and English from St. Andrews in North Carolina. At Baylor, she teaches courses in World Cultures, Social World, World Religions, Buddhism, and Death and Dying.
Dr. Cann's research focuses on death and dying, and the impact of remembering (and forgetting) in shaping how lives are recalled, remembered and celebrated. She examined this theme through martyrdom in her early scholarship. Dr. Cann's first book, Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-first Century with the University Press of Kentucky (2014), centered on grief and memorialization in the contemporary world. She has also written various chapters and articles on digital death and grief. Her second book Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife (also with University Press of Kentucky, 2017) is an edited collection on the intersection of food in death and grief. Her third book, The Routledge Handbook of Death and Afterlife(Routledge, 2018), is an edited collection containing thirty chapters examining death and afterlife from around the world.
Dr. Cann has also written lots of articles and book chapters, including her article titled “African American Deathways" in Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies. (Oxford University Press, 2020), and her co-written piece on COVID, "Death, Grief, and Funerals in the COVID age (www.covidpaper.org) utilized by Option B, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Presidential Taskforce on Grief & Loss, and the New York State Psychological Association, among many others. Dr. Cann's current projects are researching diversity in death, and the intersection of death and technology around the world.
Check out her website: www.candikcann.com and this Patheos film, A Good Goodbye, featuring her work.
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Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Sunday Feb 26, 2023
Spoiler Alert: We are all going to die!
So, let's brew theology with the Death Scholar!
Grief theory until now is largely the product of the Protestant (and white) experience, and often emphasizes the Remembering of the Dead, rather than the Care of the dead, stressing the importance of grief “work” and grief “tasks” while working to a goal of reintegration without the deceased. There are some lingering problems with contemporary grief theory... Relationships with the dead are not static ones, but changing and valuable ones that will continue to develop as we move through life. Join Ryan and Janel as they get to chat it up with Dr. Candi Cann as she speaks about the importance of reframing death and a healthier posture of grief that comes with it... (Part 1) You can now order Dr. Cann's new book, Death and Religion: The Basics on Amazon (or wherever you like to buy books!)
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Dr. Candi K. Cann, Associate Professor of Religion in the BIC, teaches at Baylor University in both the BIC and the Religion department. She received both her A.M. and Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Harvard University, an M.A. in Asian Religions from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and a B.A. in Asian Studies and English from St. Andrews in North Carolina. At Baylor, she teaches courses in World Cultures, Social World, World Religions, Buddhism, and Death and Dying.
Dr. Cann's research focuses on death and dying, and the impact of remembering (and forgetting) in shaping how lives are recalled, remembered and celebrated. She examined this theme through martyrdom in her early scholarship. Dr. Cann's first book, Virtual Afterlives: Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-first Century with the University Press of Kentucky (2014), centered on grief and memorialization in the contemporary world. She has also written various chapters and articles on digital death and grief. Her second book Dying to Eat: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death and the Afterlife (also with University Press of Kentucky, 2017) is an edited collection on the intersection of food in death and grief. Her third book, The Routledge Handbook of Death and Afterlife(Routledge, 2018), is an edited collection containing thirty chapters examining death and afterlife from around the world.
Dr. Cann has also written lots of articles and book chapters, including her article titled “African American Deathways" in Oxford Bibliographies in African American Studies. (Oxford University Press, 2020), and her co-written piece on COVID, "Death, Grief, and Funerals in the COVID age (www.covidpaper.org) utilized by Option B, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Presidential Taskforce on Grief & Loss, and the New York State Psychological Association, among many others. Dr. Cann's current projects are researching diversity in death, and the intersection of death and technology around the world.
Check out her website: www.candikcann.com and this Patheos film, A Good Goodbye, featuring her work.
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Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Tran Part 3: The Finale (with the Toronto blessing to boot y'all!) After Christianity’s morally disastrous complicity with American racism, does the Christian church have anything left to offer? Ryan & Janel have a brewtastic time with Dr. Tran on another Brew Theology episode (part 3 of 3). Dr. Jonathan Tran examines this complex question and more, discussing his recent book Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism.
Jonathan Tran holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion at Baylor University. His research focuses on linguistic theology, theology and ethics, and critical theory. His most recent book is Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism with Oxford University press.
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Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
After Christianity’s morally disastrous complicity with American racism, does the Christian church have anything left to offer? Ryan & Janel have a brewtastic time with Dr. Tran on another Brew Theology episode (part 1 of 3). Dr. Jonathan Tran examines this complex question and more, discussing his recent book Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism.
Jonathan Tran holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion at Baylor University. His research focuses on linguistic theology, theology and ethics, and critical theory. His most recent book is Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism with Oxford University press.
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Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
It's time to kick off the New Year with some hopilicious heat!
After Christianity’s morally disastrous complicity with American racism, does the Christian church have anything left to offer? Ryan & Janel have a brewtastic time with Dr. Tran on another Brew Theology episode (part 1 of 2). Dr. Jonathan Tran examines this complex question and more, discussing his recent book Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism.
Jonathan Tran holds the George W. Baines Chair of Religion at Baylor University. His research focuses on linguistic theology, theology and ethics, and critical theory. His most recent book is Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism with Oxford University press.
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Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Saturday Aug 20, 2022
Today we're talking Sports and Religion. Now, before all you non-sports fans tune out, I beg you to give it a chance. In researching this topic we found some deep connections between sports and religion.
So please listen up as we talk Super Bowl and Olympics, New Testament and Old, and get a better understanding of where sports competitions came from and what those competitions meant to the various gods that demanded their participation.
I promise you'll be surprised and probably learn something new!
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Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
We know you are ready for some more brewtastic goodness LIVE from Atlanta! On episode 176 of the Brew Theology Podcast, Ryan and Piper (Tallahassee BT Director) sit down with the Rev. Dr. Robert N. Nash Jr. from McAfee School of Theology, and brew up the topic of preaching as community development. It's a good one, gang!
We had the honor to reunite with McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University for their Fourth annual live podcast recording! This year's event featured McAfee's Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III (Part 1) and Dr. Robert Nash (Part 2). Get ready to enjoy top-notch theological conversation in regard to Nash and his years of reflection within the church and academic world. We chat all things sacred-secular, mission/ methodology, phenomenology, Buddhism, "conversion," context, and more! Get ready to prost!
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An author of three books and numerous articles, Dr. Nash has devoted his research and writing to the intersection between religious faith and culture, paying particular attention to what happens to religions as they move from one cultural context to another. This research interest eventually led him to move from the classroom to the laboratory as he directed the global mission engagement of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, assisting that organization to adapt its global engagement to the unique challenges of the 21st century. He has now taken the experience he received there back to the classroom to assist ministers as they negotiate similar challenges in local congregations.
He has served as pastor and interim pastor of a number of congregations in Kentucky, Alabama, and Georgia and as a frequent lecturer on college and university campuses and at conferences across the nation that focus on ministry and mission in the 21st century.
Dr. Nash is married to Guyeth Nash, a psychotherapist, and they have two grown children, Douglas and Lindsay. He is an avid viewer of food and travel programs on television and enjoys grilling and eating his way through every Asian restaurant in Atlanta. He runs about 12-15 miles a week to keep off the pounds generated by his food interests. The Nashes have a dog named Nemo and two cats, Mama Kitty and Agamemnon.
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Are y'all ready for some brewtastic goodness LIVE from Atlanta?! On episode 175 of the Brew Theology Podcast, Ryan and Piper (Tallahassee BT Director) get to sit down with the renowned REV Otis Moss III* from McAfee School of Theology (Part 1 of 2), and brew up the topic of preaching as community development. You definitely don't want to miss out on this one, friends!
We had the honor to reunite with McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University for their Fourth annual live podcast recording! This year's event featured McAfee's Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III (Part 1) and Dr. Robert Nash (Part 2). Get ready to enjoy top-notch theological conversation in regard to Otis Miller's Blue Note Preaching style! (Otis brings the heat, to say the least.)
If you are a fan of any of our Brew Theology shows, give this episode a share on the interwebs, rate Brew Theology on iTunes and give BT a brewtastic review! Head over to the Brew Theology website, www.brewtheology.org to learn more, and/or become a local partner, sponsor and financial contributor. Questions & inquiries about Brew Theology, the alliance/network, Denver community or podcast, contact Ryan Miller: ryan@brewtheology.org &/ or janel@brewtheology.org.
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* With civil rights advocacy in his DNA, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III built his ministry on community advancement and social justice activism. As Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Ill., Dr. Moss spent the last two decades practicing and preaching a Black theology that unapologetically calls attention to the problems of mass incarceration, environmental justice and economic inequality.
Dr. Moss is part of a new generation of ministers committed to preaching a prophetic message of love and justice, which he believes are inseparable companions that form the foundation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As part of his community engagement through Trinity United Church of Christ, Dr. Moss led the team that came up with the “My Life Matters” curriculum; which includes the viral video “Get Home Safely: 10 Rules of Survival,” created in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Ferguson, Mo., police.
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Moss is an honors graduate of Morehouse College who earned a Master of Divinity form Yale Divinity School, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Chicago Theological Seminary. He returned to Yale in 2014 to present the famed Lyman Beecher lectures. The three-day event included an in-depth discourse on the subject of “The Blue Note Gospel: Preaching the Prophetic Blues in a Post Soul World.” The lectures, which demonstrated a homiletic blueprint for prophetic preaching in the 21st century, were the foundation of his latest book, Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair, published in 2015.
Dr. Moss was named to the inaugural Root 100, a list that “recognizes emerging and established African-American leaders who are making extraordinary contributions,” according to the publication’s Website. Honorees range between ages 25 to 45, and their accomplishments and successes transcend media headlines or statistics.
With a unique gift to communicate across generations, Dr. Moss’ creative biblebased messages have inspired young and old alike. His intergenerational preaching gift has made Dr. Moss a popular speaker on college campuses, at conferences, and churches across the globe. He is highly influenced by the works of Zora Neale Hurston, August Wilson, Howard Thurman, Jazz, and Hip- Hop music. The work and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the pastoral ministry of his father, Dr. Otis Moss, Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, have been primary mentors for his spiritual formation.
He is the former pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Augusta, Ga., his first pastorate, where the church grew from 125 members to over 2100 disciples during his tenure. His earlier publications include: Redemption in a Red Light District, and The Gospel According to the Wiz: And Other Sermons from Cinema. He coauthored The Gospel Re-Mix; How to Reach the Hip-Hop Generation with three other contributors, and Preach! The Power and Purpose Behind Our Praise, with his father.
His sermons, articles, and poetry have appeared in publications such as Sojourners Magazine and The African American Pulpit Journal. Those works include: Power in the Pulpit II: America’s Most Effective Preachers, Joy To The World: Sermons From America’s Pulpit, Sound The Trumpet: Messages of Hope for Black Men, and The Audacity of Faith: Christian Leaders Reflect on the Election of Barack Obama. His work has also been featured on HuffingtonPost, Urban Cusp, and The Root.
Dr. Moss is an ordained minister in the Progressive National Baptist Convention and the United Church of Christ. He is on the boards of Auburn Seminary and Faith-In-Place/Action Fund , and chaplain of the Children’s Defense Fund’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Child Advocacy Conference. Additionally, Dr. Moss is a Senior Fellow in the Auburn Seniors Fellow Program.
He is married to his college sweetheart, the former Monica Brown of Orlando, Fla., a Spelman College and Columbia University graduate. They are the proud parents of two children, Elijah Wynton and Makayla Elon.
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Saturday Feb 26, 2022
Today we're talking about the big "D" - Deconstruction. A pretty loaded word at the moment, we're talking about faith, growth, falling apart, and moving on when faith changes. Listen to Ryan and Janel share their own evolving stories, and learn about this every changing process. Not for the faint at heart, deconstruction is hard work and we're here to walk with you.
We mentioned a few things in the Podcast that we want to highlight here. Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar has been a really helpful book for Janel. Ryan was influenced by Rob Bell and Brian McLaren, in particular A Generous Orthodoxy.
We also wanted to highlight TikTok star Piper Ramsey-Sumner @cbfplr and recommend @AbrahamPiper and @JoLuehmann. You might also check out @eve_wasframed on Instagram.
Please reach out if you have specific Deconstruction questions or topics you'd like to cover.
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