Podcasts and Radio
A 4 Week Boot Camp of Divine Encounters
Many of us struggle to make sense of our experiences of God as both our external world and internal identities experience apocalyptic-levels of change. But if there’s to be a role for belief in this complicated contemporary age, its relevance will emerge from people who can testify to some sincere and transformative encounter with the divine.
Join us for this 4-week class. It will be a robust exploration of how the tools of science, philosophy, and theology help us discern meaning from divine encounters. We’ll discuss God-experiences as mediated through faith communities, the mind, nature, the Bible, psychedelics, and more. And we’ll do all this with an eye towards the future, exploring the range of possibilities for how a lived-theology could express itself in the world.
Homebrewed Christianity w/ Tripp Fuller
Joerg Rieger has a brand new book and Catherine Keller joins the podcast for the celebration! You will want to check out Joerg’s new book Theology in the Capitalocene. In the episode I asked questions that bring themes from the book into conversation with Keller’s own work. While I may be bias, I am confident a theology nerd is going really get into this one!
Therapy for Guys
Rieger’s work brings together the study of theology and of the movements for liberation and justice that mark our age, exemplified by the following questions: Considering the multiple relations of religion and power, what difference does religion make, for good and for ill, and what might be the constructive contributions of theology? What are the implications of various embodiments of faith for politics, economics, and ecology? What options and alternatives can we envision and how might the tools of theology help us make appropriate choices? Rieger’s constructive work in theology draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary traditions, with a concern for the roles that images of the divine play in the pressures of everyday life, locally, nationally, and internationally.
Igniting Imagination
Igniting Imagination is a podcast to spark the spirit within you, from Wesleyan Investive and Texas Methodist Foundation. Listen to “Distributing Power” a conversation from Season 3 with Dr. Rieger, as he reminds us that distributed power is at the heart of Jesus’ ministry.
Homebrewed Christianity with Tripp Fuller
Check out the most recent episode from Homebrewed Christianity, hosted by Dr. Tripp Fuller.
Listen to Joerg and Tripp as they speak about Joerg’s book, Jesus vs. Caesar and how to develop faith that is life-giving for all rather than faith that is damaging and destructive of people and the earth.
The Quest: Episode 22
In this episode, Brandan Robertson chats with Dr. Joerg Rieger, the Founding Director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University and prolific author of his latest book "Jesus vs. Ceasar: For People Tired Of Serving the Wrong God."
The Christian Left
Dr. Joerg Rieger and Rev. Dr. David Latimore are guest speakers on The Radical Reverend, a radio show with Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo C.M.
Listen in as they ask: What is the Christian Left and how can the Christian Left use this moment to make real, systemic change?
Theologian Joerg Rieger talks about why oppressed people have been hit hardest with COVID-19 and why people of faith and theologians should care. Joerg’s theory of the logic of downturn in regard to the broken system in the United States asks, “What if we thought about God from this perspective from the bottom up, or the perspective of an essential worker? How are we going to get out of this?”
Faith and capital: Malignant Faith, Class Struggle, and Social
If you're wondering why Christians might want to take class and labor more seriously, listen to Joerg Rieger speak on the Faith and Capital podcast! The episode discusses two different kinds of faith, labor and power in the Gospels, class struggle and social justice, liberal Christianity, and discipleship as organizing.
Faith and reason 360: Part 1
Dr. Joerg Rieger joins Debo, David, and Ann to explore the tension between the Christian perceptions of God: the kingly, dominant God of Caesar vs. the humble, human God of Jesus. When we talk about God, he says, which God are we talking about? If this God is one with Jesus, a working person and refugee who served the marginalized, what does it look like for us to be followers of Jesus today?
Faith and Reason 360 part 2
Dr. Joerg Rieger joins Debo, David, and Ann unpack the distinction between religion and politics. When Jesus says “Give to God what is God’s, and give to Caesar what is Caesar’s,” what is he really saying?
Faith and Reason 360: Part 3
Dr. Joerg Rieger sits with Debo, David and Ann to delve into the differences between "malignant religion" and "life-giving religion." Religion that is malignant does not care about others, justifies oppression, and creates negative outcomes for people. Religion that is life-giving brings real good news to the poor, embraces everyone, and creates real love for our neighbor.
In a broader sense, Rieger asks: is your spirituality functioning, and how can we speak back to the malignant religion that is encroaching in our own lives?
Faith and Reason 360: Part 4
Dr. Joerg Rieger joins Debo and David to discuss how the cross and the resurrection of Jesus illustrate resistance, and why women were the only followers of Jesus who showed up when Jesus was crucified. They also talk about how malignant religion can support an economic system that will result in exploitation and suffering. What are some of the mechanisms that keep the “American Dream” in place?
Faith and Reason 360: Part 5
Dr. Joerg Rieger joins Debo, Ann, and David to discuss Jesus’s claim “the way, the truth, and the life” and how to understand that statement alongside alternate perspectives of truth. Different people can encounter truth in different ways, and that doesn’t mean everything goes; instead, Rieger says that as we negotiate truth, we must figure out where to broaden the picture and where to draw the lines.
Authorial Intentions
Joerg Rieger talks about his book Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God. Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology, Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair of Wesleyan Studies, Founding Director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice, and Affiliate Faculty, Turner Family Center for Social Ventures, Owen Graduate School of Management, all at Vanderbilt University.
Wild Goose Festival 2019
There is a tension located within the heart of Christianity itself. It is a radical conflict between faith that is life-giving for all and faith that is damaging and destructive of people and the earth. Jesus vs. Caesar serves as an indictment of the pieties of empire and their push for political, economic, cultural, and religious domination. Some forms of Christian faith (Jesus) versus other forms of Christian faith (Caesar). Whom and what will we trust and serve?