Freestyle Christianity

David talks to Timothy Chilvers about community, exclusion, difference, Jean Vanier, Michel Foucault, disability theology and how the voice of the one who is most least like us is maybe the voice that we most need to hear.  This episode will challenge how we think about communities of faith and what it means to include all, regardless of who they are.

David talks to Merold Westphal.

Freestyle Christianity is back after a short winter break, and we are back stronger than ever since David Capener has joined our ranks. In this episode Joel and David speaks about the suspended reality of our age. Enjoy!

Josef talks to radical theologian Noëlle Vahanian about her book The Rebellious No and an article titled The Gospel of the Word Made Flesh: Insurrection from Within the Heart of Divinity, which will be published in An Insurrectionist Manifesto (2016).

Josef talks to Kester Brewin about technology and radical theology. The conversation explores how technology amplifies our desires and how it cannot live up to what it promises; rather then making us free, technology imprisons us. Kester's respons to this presumably disheartening thesis is a dirty, radical theology that does not only take serious the technology of religion but also the religion of technology. Freestyle Christianity is availiable on iTunes, Sticher and acast.

Tripp Fuller talks to Josef about his new book Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic...Or Awesome! As the title suggests, the conversation centers on Jesus and Tripp explains why the crazy notion that God was revealed in a first-century homeless Jew is not only relevant but also freaking good news for the whole world. We highly recommend you to buy the book!

In this episode Josef talks to Jeffrey Robbins about radical theology--its lineage and its coming of age. The conversation moves from Jeff's jazz like, deleuzian understanding of difference and repetition to his use of Catherine Malabou's signature concept "plasticity," which he employs when talking about radical onto-theology, with a difference. Jeff is a brilliant thinker and a great inspiration for our Freestyle project so we hope that you will enjoy listening to what he has to say.

Petra Carlsson returns to the podcast for a theological conversation with Josef on a material understanding of sacramentality. The talk centers around the eucharist and makes use of thinkers and artists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Edouard Manet and Diego Velázquez.

In this episode Joel and Josef freestyle with Jesse Turri on process theology, creativity, imagination, art, MacGyver, icons, umbrellas, Catherine Keller, Gilles Deleuze, and much more.

Alexander Bard is an Internet sociologist, a cyber philosopher, and the co-author of the Futurica Trilogy, and Syntheism: Creating God In The Internet Age. In this episode of Freestyle Christianity Podcast, Alexander speaks to Josef about the Internet revolution and our need for a proper metaphysics for the Internet age.

Joel och Josef dyker ner i den prisbelönta filmen Selma för att diskutera medborgarrättsrörelsen i USA och Martin Luther King i förhållande till personbegreppet som utvecklades i samband med definitionen av treenigheten.

Joel och Josef diskuterar och spoilar filmen Mad Max.

Josef talks to theologian Tony Jones about his most recent book Did God Kill Jesus? The conversation moves between present day experiences and age old atonement models. It's a fun and engaging episode and we are sure that you'll enjoy it. We also want to recommend you to buy the book.

On this episode, Joel talks with Tad DeLay, about his latest book God is Unconscious: Psychoanalysis and Theology (if your in Sweden, you can find Delay's book here.) DeLay, a PhD student at Claremont Graduate University, wrote this excellent introduction to Lacanian theory and philosophy, trying to display the psychoanalytical potential for/in a theological discourse.

In this episode Josef speaks to John 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.

Josef talks to Daniel Colucciello Barber who is the author of Deleuze and the Naming of God: Post-Secularism and the Future of Immanence (Edinburgh UP, 2014) and On Diaspora: Christianity, Religion, and Secularity (Cascade, 2011), as well as a co-author (with Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker) of Dark Nights of the Universe (2013). He received his PhD from Duke University, where he worked in Religious Studies and the Program in Literature. His work – which has appeared in various journals – concerns the intersections between continental philosophy, race, religion, queer theory, secularism, and media. (Source: https://www.ici-berlin.org/profile/barber/)

Josef talked to philosopher and theologian Peter Rollins about his latest book, The Divine Magician: The Disappearance of Religion & the Discovery of Faith. The death of God, psychoanalysis and the future of Christianity are just a handfull of themes mentioned in this great podcast. In other words, Josef and Peter discussed just the right theological topics for good friday.

In this episode Josef speaks to Bo Sanders from Homebrewed Christianity about practical theology.

This is the second part of Josef's conversation with Tripp Fuller on process theology.

Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if Freestyle Christianity and Homebrewed Christianity did something together? Well, here is one of all possible answers to that question. In this episode Josef speaks to Tripp Fuller about process theology, Alfred North Whitehead, John Cobb and much more. This is part one of the conversation.