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 goodness interviews with scholars

from many disciplines, all helping you.

Get that wisdom from the ivory tower right into your earbuds you can think, reflect, and wrestle with the biggest questions of faith and life.

And today on the podcast, returning is friend of the pod, scholar of American religion, Diana Butler

Bass. Oh yeah, that's right. And guess what? Guess what? We had ourselves some fun. Mm-hmm. And this is a little

test, you could even say. This is an episode of us testing something we've been discussing

doing, having regular get-togethers once a month, where we talk about religion and politics

and culture as two super nerd, progressive Christian friends. And that's what happens. We talk about

a host of different topics. We wrestle with the question of exactly is a progressive Christian, the legacy of Ticknott Han, particularly for American religion and how it shaped our conversations around religious pluralism. We look at the crazy, crazy use of religious data in the Virginia governatorial election and what that means for the future.

We have some sarcastic asides about the recent Vanity Fair post on Jerry Falwell Jr.

And a few other things, but we got all the way to the end and then realized we didn't tell anyone what we're doing

for Lent. That's right. Over Lent, this year in the year 2022, Diana Butler Bass and I are doing

an online class together called JesusD slash constructed. Jesus Deconstructed.com. It's an open online class available to any and all at whatever

kind of donation you want to give, including zero. I see we both wrote Jesus books. I've written two of them.

And a lot of people have been wrestling with their relationship to Jesus when you got tons of

religious baggage and you got lots of questions

and pain and hurt connected to the church then what do you do with Jesus? Well, that's what we're

going to do. So I forgot the entire time we were streaming to mention it. So go check out

Jesus Deconstructed.com and you'll hear about the class we are working on and inviting you to.

But the main thing I want to let you know is this was our test run.

It's something we want to do monthly.

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