Process This

Process This Podcast with Tripp Fuller This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes. This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes.

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 was the contemplative tradition that brought him back to a flourishing form of faith on the far side of a series of nerdy dead ends. Make Your Home in the Luminous Dark is his most personal and, I would argue, most beautiful book.

Process This Podcast with Tripp Fuller This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes. This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes.

Process This Podcast with Tripp Fuller This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes. This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes.

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 historical counterfactual we have ever discussed on the podcast.

Dr. Timothy Larsen writes about serious, energetic faith in the places other historians assume the faith cannot really be. A Victorian Christian fantasist. A Westminster canon who quietly set aside biblical authority. And, in his newest and most acclaimed book, seventeen Anglican chaplains who came out of the trenches of World War I as radicals.

Explaining church decline in America is a cottage industry, almost as big as the cottage industry of quick-fix solutions to congregational malaise and decline. It is easy to blame the culture wars, the boomers, the seeker-sensitive movement, the internet, the Republican Party, and (occasionally) myself. The explanations are different. The shape underneath them was identical. Every single one was a story about faithfulness. Ours, or somebody else’s, but always faithfulness.

Exactly how a religion defined by a cross-bearer has so consistently been leveraged by cross-builders across history remains an irrefutable predicament at the heart of Christianity. For nearly two thousand years, Christianity and empires have upheld each other. Not occasionally, not by accident, but structurally and repeatedly, in ways that consistently supported the power of the few over against the power of the many. Christianity was born in the context of empire and was never free of it.

Process This Podcast with Tripp Fuller This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes. This podcast feed is for paid subscribers of Process This and features ad-free, full-length interviews from the Homebrewed Christianity podcast as well as bonus episodes.

Gianni Vattimo — the Catholic-communist-gay Italian pioneer of pensiero debole (weak thought) — died in 2023, and the intellectual biography he deserved has finally arrived, courtesy of Thomas Jared Farmer, a fellow Claremont alum who wrote the book at the University of Münster and now works at Emory Law School. Vattimo is not the household philosopher he should be in English, and this book fixes that.