Join Diana Butler Bass, Dr. Philip Clayton, & Dr. Tripp Fuller for an Advent online pop-up learning community!

Making Space in Our Lives for the Coming of God

 

During the season of Advent, the month leading up to Christmas, the church has long invited us to pray for the coming of God. These prayers help us anticipate the celebration of Christ’s coming, but that is not all. The deep wisdom of this season is an invitation to make space in our lives for the birth of God. The Christmas story is unique in that it looks at a particular family deeply embedded in their own time and place, and yet its significance has always had a cosmic horizon.

 

Hosted by Dr. Tripp Fuller, Dr. Philip Clayton, and Dr. Diana Butler Bass, we will explore the complexity of the Christmas story and the vision of the Cosmic Christ today. 

• DONATION-BASED - Support the class with a donation as little as $0. 
• ASYNCHRONOUS 100% ONLINE - You can participate fully without being present at any specific time.
• 4 LIVE LECTURES - Join live or via replay as Tripp, Philip, and Diana present four lectures including The Cosmic Story, The Coming of Christ, The Becoming of God, and A Groaning Creation and the Birth Pains of God. 
• TWO LIVE QnAs - Submit your questions and have them answered! If you miss the live QnA, you can always watch the replay. 
• PRIVATE ONLINE COMMUNITY - Engage with other course participants in a private, online community where you'll be able to share your reflections, insights, and questions. 

What You'll Walk Away With...

• A Deeper Cosmic Perspective: Gain a profound understanding of how modern scientific cosmology intertwines with the age-old Christmas story, offering you a fresh outlook on our place in the evolving cosmos.

   

• Insight into the Biblical Narrative: Uncover the layers of significance within the Biblical story of Christ's coming, enhancing your understanding of its historical and cosmic relevance.

   

• Tools for Personal Spiritual Enrichment: Explore practical ways to invite the essence of the Christmas narrative into your own life, transforming your spiritual journey and practices.

   

• Empowerment to Address Global Challenges: Equip yourself with a renewed perspective on how the ancient story can guide our response to modern global challenges, inspiring action and a sense of purpose in creating positive change.

   

• Integrated Understanding Across Disciplines: Experience a comprehensive exploration merging science, history, spirituality, and contemporary issues, providing a holistic understanding of the cosmic Christ narrative and its implications for our world today.

   

• Transformative Insights for the Season: Prepare to approach the Advent season and Christmas with a profound, enlightened perspective, intertwining ancient wisdom with modern understanding for a deeper appreciation of the season's true significance.

Don't Miss This Groundbreaking Podcast - An Oral History of the Emerging Church Movement!

For a decade at the beginning of the twentieth century, a small group of pastors, missionaries, and theologians set out to change the church. They were mostly GenXers, mostly men, mostly white, mostly evangelical. They planted churches and wrote books and ran conferences. They were quoted in the New York Times and Time Magazine, and they landed on the cover of Christianity Today and the Christian Century.

 

And then, almost as quickly as it appeared, the emerging church movement disappeared. 

 

In this 8-part+ series, Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller will journey through the electrifying, tumultuous, ever-evolving years of the ECM through interviews, stories, and opinions from some of the movement’s pivotal figures. They’ll tackle questions like:

• What were the precursors to the ECM?
• What catalyzed the movement?
• How cohesive was it, really?
• When and why did interest switch from the evangelical church to the mainline?
• Did it become too political?
• Did the movement ultimately fail, or did it infiltrate and change the church?

Confirmed guests already include Brian McLaren, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Doug Pagitt, Mark Oestreicher, Diana Butler Bass, Anthony Smith, Danielle Shroyer, Brad Cecil, Jonny Baker, Jason Clark, Gerardo Marti, and never-before-heard conversations with Rachel Held Evans. Plus, many more!

 

By supporting the podcast, you'll also get access to livestream debriefs with Tony Jones and Tripp Fuller, an online community to interact with other listeners, upload your own five minute story to potentially be included in the podcast, access to a digital download library of ECM history, and more!

These resources are part of the ongoing work of Homebrewed Christianity. For over 15 years we have been bringing podcast interviews with scholars from the ivory tower to your earbuds so that you can think, reflect, and wrestle with your faith. Last year, we had over 5 million downloads, and 20,000 people and 300+ churches participated in our online classes. Our mission is to utilize new technology to think with theology nerds globally. We would love for you to join us!

 

Rock On,
Dr. Tripp Fuller
Homebrewed Christianity