Freestyle Christianity

In this episode, we revisit a catacomb introduced to the podcast by our friend Timothy Chilvers, who together with David leads the conversation with John Swinton.

In this episode of Freestyle Christianity you will get to listen to a talk by Barry Taylor at Wake in Belfast.

In this episode, Josef, David and Joel catch up on time lost by summarizing the last couple of weeks and especially the events we´ve participated in (Göteborg, Sweden and Belfast, Northern Ireland). In the second half of the conversation, the triad explore the structure and chaos that is "catacombic theology." The episode as a whole can be seen as synthesis of the last couple of months of Freestyling, both in texts and podcasts, but also as the start of a new series of podcasts, dedicated to an archeology of the catacombs. A special focus of this episode ended up being a connection between radical theology, the death of god, desiring theology of Charles Winquist, Join the conversation either by way of critique or commentary, on any of the social platforms associated with Freestyle Christianity; we´d love to hear from you.  

In this episode of Freestyle Christianity you will get to listen to a talk given by Kester Brewin at the festival Wake in Belfast. The subject of Kester's talk was his recently published book Getting High: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the Dream of Flight. We are all born flightless, every one. After so many thousands of years each of us still drops into the world smooth-skinned and featherless.' Why have we never been content to keep our feet on the ground? In the 1960s this desire to get high exploded with the LSD counterculture and the Apollo missions. In this unique and dazzling book, acclaimed author Kester Brewin (MUTINY / AFTER MAGIC) explores the history of the human quest for transcendence, and how, following a family tragedy, it blighted his own life. Drawing on a huge cast of characters from the Montgolfier brothers to Renaissance artists, Hells Angels, astronauts, The Beatles, Gonzo journalists and dreaming hippies, GETTING HIGH is a wild trip into the ancient dream of flight, soaring through s

David and Josef speaks to James Heaney about his book Beyond the Body: An Antitheology of the Eucharist.

Peter Rollins and Jay Bakker visited Sweden for our Freestyle Christianity Event "Catacomb" in Gothenburg, and this episode features a summary by Pete of what we talked about during the three days of the event. 

Josef speaks to Barry Taylor about radical theology, the Internet, Nietzsche, creativity, the pope, True Detective, a radical take on Easter and much more. Barry is a Brit who has lived in Los Angeles for far longer than he ever imagined, and he likes it. As a writer/speaker/thinker/musician he has talked and played his way around much of the world and can often be found speaking at conferences, teaching classes on art, advertising, theology, religion, technology and all things cultural at various educational institutions in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Lifelabla, a learning environment committed to promoting and nurturing ideas that enrich life and help  people to become self-aware and more focused on creating the lives they want for themselves. He has written a few books, and is writing a new one, a memoir of sorts about epiphanies and catastrophes.  Barry holds his PhD in Theology and Culture, as with most things, very lightly. When he is not working he can often be seen biking around Venice or hangin

Josef talks to Clayton Crockett about his new collaborative project An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics, which also features Ward Blanton, Jeff Robbins, and Noëlle Vahanian. Foreword by Peter Rollins, Preface by Creston Davis, and Afterword by Catherine Keller. An Insurrectionist Manifesto contains four insurrectionary gospels based on Martin Heidegger's philosophical model of the fourfold: earth and sky, gods and mortals. Challenging religious dogma and dominant philosophical theories, they offer a cooperative, world-affirming political theology that promotes new life through not resurrection but insurrection. The insurrection in these gospels unfolds as a series of miraculous yet worldly practices of vital affirmation. Since these routines do not rely on fantasies of escape, they engender intimate transformations of the self along the very coordinates from which they emerge. Enacting a comparative and contagious postsecular sensibility, these gospels draw on the work of Sla

In this episode, we are invited to the first of a series of catacombic conversations. This time freestylers David, Joel, Tad Delay and Ludvig Lindelöf jam on questions about mythology, doubt, psychoanalysis, theology, Tillich and Lacan. If you like, or perhaps dislike, what you hear; share comments or thoughts here, one of our Facebook pages, or perhaps in the form of a tweet to @freestylechrist. Be sure to follow both Tad and Ludvig on Twitter!

Josef and David talks to Peter Enns about his new book The Sin Of Certainty, hermeneutics, inerrancy and a whole lot more.  Peter is the Abram S. Clemens professor of biblical studies at Eastern University and has authored many books including, Inspiration and Incarnation and For The Bible Tells Me So.

David and Josef talks to Russell Re Manning about Paul Tillich. Russell is a philosopher of religion with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in modern and contemporary philosophy and theology.

In this episode, David and Joel speak with dr. Walter Brueggemann. The conversation deals with many issues, but is centered around questions of hermeneutics, especially in relation to the Christian Bible. If you like what you hear, be sure to check out dr. Brueggemann's resources online here, for instance, and/or be sure to order one of his many books.

Josef talks to Austin Roberts about Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion, which is a forthcoming volume by Bloomsbury, edited by LeRon Shults and Lindsay Powell-Jones. This episode is part two of our series which will feature a number of the book's contributors, part one with LeRon was published a few weeks ago. Last week we published an article by Austin which is related to the conversation in this episode: Chaosmic Process Theology | Deleuze and Whitehead If you like what we produce, please subscribe to Freestyle Christianity on iTunes and give us a 5 star review to help other people find us easier. Thanks!

In this episode David talks to Gladys Ganiel about her book The Deconstructed Church. Gladys is Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (ISCTSJ) at Queen’s University Belfast. She works in the disciplines of sociology and politics and her main areas of research are the Northern Ireland conflict, evangelicalism, Christianity in Ireland, the emerging church, and charismatic Christianity in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

David talks to John (Jack) D Caputo who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University about his two latest books Hoping Against Hope and The Folly of God.  They talk about how Paul Tillich has influenced the work of Jack, deconstruction, Radical Theology, plasticity, hospitality and the Augustinian question, who it is that Jack says he loves when he loves his God.

David and Josef talks to Peter Rollins about God talk and the notion of "lack" in Pete's work.

Josef talks to LeRon Shults about the forthcoming book Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion, which will be published by Bloomsbury in September. This volume brings together some of the leading voices in the field of Deleuze studies and religion, discussing what a schizoanalysis of religion might be and introduce a variety of ways in which it might be practiced. The authors do not all agree on the extent to which Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis project is antithetical to “religion.” However, they do share an enthusiasm for the exploring the ways in which it can contribute to such topics as political theology, liberation theology, Christian doctrine, and spirituality more generally, without losing sight of the important role atheism has to play in Deleuze's broader work.

David and Joel talk to Dr Marika Rose about her work. Marika is Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion and Research Fellow of St John's College. Her research focuses on discussions within continental philosophy about the relationship between Christian apophatic thought (particularly that of Dionysius the Areopagite) and contemporary philosophies of difference, otherness and incompletion.

This is part two of our conversation with Richard Kearney. Included in this episode is also a post-game analysis by David and Josef.

David and Josef talks to Richard Kearney about anatheism and his new book Reimagining The Sacred. Richard is the Charles Seelig professor of philosophy at Boston College and has taught at many universities including University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, and the University of Nice.