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Beer Christianity

Beer Christianity

By: Jonty Langley Laura Durrant Malky Currie
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 Faith, hops and love. Beer Christianity is a progressive Christian podcast that blends faith, politics and culture with pub chat. Interviews with thinkers, artists and theologians. Honest, authentic discussions of theology and society. Almost no real understanding of beer. Expect all this and a bunch of laughs as we try to deconstruct, reconstruct and unf*ck our Christianity with fear, trembling and a couple of drinks. Pour a pint, put your feet up and listen your way into a different kind of Christian podcast. A fresh alternative to conservative Christian podcasts that fail to question anything and deconstructing podcasts that see nothing in evangelicalism worth saving. Expect strong political views, open religious dialogue and the occasional shambles in the ‘studio’.Copyright 2023 Jonathan Langley Christianity Politics & Government Spirituality
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  • Episode 114 - Greenbelt Festival 2025 review

    Episode 114 - Greenbelt Festival 2025 review
    Aug 31 2025
    We bloody love Greenbelt. We have for years. The UK’s best Christian festival is also its best arts festival and justice festival, a place where belief, creativity and working for a better world coalesce in a series of talks, spiritual happenings and cool music, theatre, comedy and craft. And at the 2025 festival, we made our on-stage debut!

    In this episode, Laura, Malky and Jonty their Greenbelt 2025 highlights, as well as the Shibboleth Sessions they led in the Hope & Anchor venue. If you were at the sessions, this is your chance to hear what the gang thought about them. If you weren’t, it’s a chance to catch up on what we’ve been doing. And if you’re not interested in any of that, this episode is your chance to hear about our experience of Greenbelt this year. Everyone’s is different, so we would love to hear what yours was like! Send us a voicenote!

    If you’ve never been to Greenbelt before, get your tickets for next year now.

    You can listen to Episode 114 anywhere: in a field in Northhamptonshire, in a dry bar where honest conversation leads to deep fellowship, in denial that it’s another year to wait before we can meet again, or right here...
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 113: Sim Kern, author of Genocide Bad - Jewishness and antizionism

    Episode 113: Sim Kern, author of Genocide Bad - Jewishness and antizionism
    Aug 19 2025
    Sim Kern is an author and social media creator who sprang to prominence at the beginning of Israel's latest war on the people of Gaza. As they have spoken out, from a Jewish perspective, against zionist justifications for Israel's violence, they have articulated what many within and outside Jewish communities feel about Israel and Zionism.

    As a result of their TikToks, they were invited by America's only Palestinian-owned publisher, Interlink, to get some of those helpful thoughts onto paper. The result is Genocide Bad, a book that was denounced by some Israeli pundits before it had been published, and which made the NYT bestseller list.

    In this episode, Sim talks to Jonty about why they don't use the word 'antisemitism' anymore, how they have experienced all the attention (positive and very negative), and what Christians and other people concerned about justice can say and do in the face of overwhelming political and media support for Israel's war crimes.

    They also talk about finding hope in a bathroom stall. It's pretty cool.

    Follow Sim on TikTok @simkern, on Insta @sim_bokstagrams_badly and at simkern.com

    Check out Genocide Bad at interlinkbooks.com and find this interview in print (alongside similar voices) in Issue 4 of S(h)ibboleth magazine shibbolethmag.com

    You can listen to Episode 113 anywhere: in a pro-Palestinian march, at a Jewish antizionist reading group, in church, or right here…
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    53 mins
  • Episode 112: The uncontrolling God - Simon Cross and Thomas Oord

    Episode 112: The uncontrolling God - Simon Cross and Thomas Oord
    May 19 2025

    What if God wasn’t all-powerful? What if you already held a theology that the mainstream Church saw as heretical? What are Process Theology and Open and Relational Theology?

    Simon Cross and Thomas Oord join us for this episode to talk about a theology that, in a sense, rejects the images of God that don’t make sense in the light of God’s goodness. One part of that is seeing God as emotional, and not all-powerful.

    Jonty and Laura talk to them about their ideas about God, about dealing with people with abhorrent ideas and about the conference Simon and Thomas are contributing to in June 2025.

    We don’t agree on everything, but we’re surprised at how much we do agree on.

    You can get tickets to the conference The Uncontrolling Love of God here while stocks last.

    If you’re interested in whether God is in control or not, and if you want to hear Laura getting increasingly uncomfortable with Jonty arguing with a guest, this one is for you.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
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