Oh, yeah, what is up theology nerds?

This is Tripp, and you're listening to Homebrewed Christianity.

Since the year of 2008, we've been bringing you audiological ingredients

so you can brew up some zesty, zesty, thoughts, ideas, faith,

all out on the interwebs. And today, this is a special, a special episode because, one,

it's a return visit from Gerardo, Marty, sociologist of religion, Davidson in North Carolina,

but he is bringing us a lecture. That's right, a lecture on secularization and social change.

He'll be looking at the data, the numbers, you know, right off the ground. What are the details we know about the changing shape of religion?

Then he's going to introduce us to two theorists who helped frame the process of secularization

and how you understand the shifting nature of culture and the church.

And then he digs into the history and goes back through the little

points in American history to give us a framework for what's going on today. And then he and I have

a conversation. And this is really one of the best lectures I've heard in years. Like,

amazing and fascinating. And here's the thing.

It gets better every minute.

That's right.

This isn't even one of those lectures where, you know, like the first 10 minutes are so good. You're like, oh, that was great. No, no, no. It gets better minute by minute. And when you get done with this, I hope you say to yourself, I want to know more, I want to think more. I want to wrestle more with this because this is part of our current online reading group, religion and the spiritual crisis. That's right. This very week,

June 15th, we kick off session one, but you can join at any point if you go to Our Secular Age.com.

You go to Our Secular Age.com. You go to Our Secular Age.com.

You can join each week on Tuesday.

We will be streaming a new session digging into the work of Charles Taylor, Hartmont Rosa,

and using these two thinkers to reflect on the changing nature of faith, the role of religion and spirituality.

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