Oh, yeah. What is up theology nerds? This is Tripp, and you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity,

where we've been bringing you audiological goodness. That's interviews. Since the year 2008,

for you to think, reflect, and brew your own faith.

We try to bring together scholars from across the discipline, say, theologian, scientists, philosophers, biblical scholars.

And I bring that goodness they've been wrestling with in the ivory tower.

Plop it in your earbud.

So you can wrestle with it yourself.

We don't want to think for you.

We want to think with you.

And today on the podcast is a return,

return of the one and only deacon, Tony Jones. That's right. Practical theologian,

Tony Jones, and he is on the podcast and we are tackling a host of questions. Questions sent

in by members of the homebrewed community. We end up talking about the future of the local church, the mission of the church

in that area. We end up talking about the nature of prayer. We have a showdown between

Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard. We discuss the lack of quality hoppy beer in Scotland, a whole host of other questions and topics.

Homebrewd community members sent in, and it's fun.

It's always good to have Tony back on the show because he too is someone who is invested in bringing theology to the people.

Plus, we've just been friends a long time, so it's always a good reason to hang out. And since I was back in the United States last

week, we could hang out late enough, you know, that we could both have a beverage for two while we're

talking. So that's what happens. So if you are new to the podcast, Tony's been on a bunch of times, but if you knew the podcast,

and it takes us a bit of catching up before we jump into the questions.

So you might want to skip, you know, 20 or so minutes into the episode because we talk

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