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Homebrewed Culture Cast

Portland-based writer Christian Piatt, along with Rev. Amy Piatt and Slim Moon (founder of Kill Rock Stars and a Unitarian Universalist seminarian) discuss pop culture and news through the lens of progressive Christian spirituality.

Christianity Religion Religion & Spirituality Society Spirituality Politics Progressive Faith Culture
Update frequency
every 9 days
Average duration
65 minutes
Episodes
150
Years Active
2013 - 2018
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Sneaky Televangelists, Fred Phelps is Dead, and a Glut of God Flicks

Sneaky Televangelists, Fred Phelps is Dead, and a Glut of God Flicks

This week we are honored to have NPR Religion Correspondent John Burnett return to the show to talk about his nvestigative series on televangelists and fiscal transparency: Can a Television Network b…

01:02:29  |   Thu 03 Apr 2014
Malaysia, Marriage and Measles! (CultureCast)

Malaysia, Marriage and Measles! (CultureCast)

We continue our time-tested tradition on the Homebrewed Christianity CultureCast about taking completely unrelated topics, digging into them, making a smart-ass joke and then pretty much leaving a bu…

01:04:15  |   Mon 31 Mar 2014
Cool Weed, Cold Wars, Smokin’ Apps and Hot Messes

Cool Weed, Cold Wars, Smokin’ Apps and Hot Messes

Sometimes we just talk so damn much, there’s no time for an interview. This happens to be one of those weeks…

With Sanjay Gupta re-upping his stance on Medical Marijuana, Vladimir Putin slignin’ his …

01:03:57  |   Fri 14 Mar 2014
Education’s Broken, Walmart Needs Welfare, but Somehow Everything is Awesome: Culture Cast

Education’s Broken, Walmart Needs Welfare, but Somehow Everything is Awesome: Culture Cast

This week Amy looks to Entertainment Weekly’s “Bulls Eye” for culture and then outs Philip’s deprived, candy-less upbringing. Andy Campbell sits in for Jordan and talks about pasta makers, bottling h…

00:56:16  |   Sat 01 Mar 2014
Corporate Shills, Sex Sells and Someone’s Week Sucks

Corporate Shills, Sex Sells and Someone’s Week Sucks

The episode starts off with Christian recounting what could well be his worst week ever since entering into adulthood. It’s actually so crappy, it would be funny…that is, if Christian wasn’t the one …

01:02:10  |   Tue 18 Feb 2014
V-Day Bourbon Corner (CultureCast Mini-Sode)

V-Day Bourbon Corner (CultureCast Mini-Sode)

What goes better with Valentine’s Day than a nice glass of bourbon? Forget the chocolates and frilly cards; join us for a glass of your favorite whiskey and catch up bourbon value buys, bourbon tasti…

00:11:05  |   Fri 14 Feb 2014
Homebrew, Ham (Ken, that is) and Haim (CultureCast)

Homebrew, Ham (Ken, that is) and Haim (CultureCast)

After weeks of planning, we finally sat down with brewmaster-slash-theologian Andy Campbell to homebrew a batch of beer. He takes us step-by-step through the process and helps Christian brew his firs…

01:10:10  |   Tue 11 Feb 2014
God is Disappointed in You! (CultureCast)

God is Disappointed in You! (CultureCast)

This week, we welcome Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler, author and illustrator, respectively, of the book, “God is Disappointed in You.” If you’ve ever found it tedious to plow through all 66 books o…

01:07:22  |   Tue 04 Feb 2014
Art > Religion? Plus Biometrics, Super Bowl and Bieber (CultureCast)

Art > Religion? Plus Biometrics, Super Bowl and Bieber (CultureCast)

We’re packing in the content this week. Our first guest is a musical duo, Bettman and Halpin, from out of Denver. They did a gig recently with Christian on his trip to Colorado and the three of them …

01:14:11  |   Tue 28 Jan 2014
We’re BAAAAaaaack (Homebrewed CultureCast)

We’re BAAAAaaaack (Homebrewed CultureCast)

It’s been a while, but the CultureCast crew is back in action. Jordan, Christian, Amy and Jess the Intern set up and knock down all the stuff that’s been going down in our lives and in the cultural l…

01:19:05  |   Tue 21 Jan 2014
CultureCast: Movies, the Week in Whiteness & Doug Pagitt

CultureCast: Movies, the Week in Whiteness & Doug Pagitt

The CultureCast crew is on hiatus for a while so the HomeBrewed crew decided to change it up and put out a culture cast as an early Christmas present! 

First up is Callid and Bo talking about 5 movie…

01:10:46  |   Sat 21 Dec 2013
Richard Cizik, Christian Hegemony and Yogurt’s Feelings

Richard Cizik, Christian Hegemony and Yogurt’s Feelings

We’re stoked to finally have Richard Cizik, co-founder of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good and former Vice President at the National Evangelical Association, on the show. He spent …

01:04:26  |   Thu 14 Nov 2013
Creepy Sexy Babies, Doing Death Right, and Fresh Hop Beer

Creepy Sexy Babies, Doing Death Right, and Fresh Hop Beer

First, we want to welcome the inimitable Andy Campbell, who is sitting in for Jordan Green while he attends to family matters. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Green family during this difficult…

01:00:32  |   Wed 30 Oct 2013
Bad Government, Good Food and Fall TV-Palooza (Commando CultureCast #3)

Bad Government, Good Food and Fall TV-Palooza (Commando CultureCast #3)

Our guest for this week unexpectedly fell through, so you get a full dose of Christian, Amy and Jordan this time.

We start out by taking it to our esteemed legislators in D.C. for their inability to …

01:06:13  |   Fri 11 Oct 2013
Amanda Bast on Appreciating the Present, the Fear of Terrorism vs. Spiders, and Two Books You Should Read Immediately

Amanda Bast on Appreciating the Present, the Fear of Terrorism vs. Spiders, and Two Books You Should Read Immediately

This episode has been in the hopper for a bit, so don’t be mad at us for talking about 9/11 and flooding in Colorado.

We start things off strong with a discussion of which gender and sexual orientati…

01:01:13  |   Fri 04 Oct 2013
Snake Handlers, NPR Geek-Outs and White Power (CultureCast)

Snake Handlers, NPR Geek-Outs and White Power (CultureCast)

We’re honored and more than a little geeked out of our skin this week to have John Burnett, Religion Correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR in the biz, yo) as our guest. John was in Portland do…

01:13:01  |   Fri 20 Sep 2013
Tony Kriz, Killer Bees and Women in Prison

Tony Kriz, Killer Bees and Women in Prison

This week, Christian sits down with Tony Kriz (AKA, Tony the Beat Poet from Blue Like Jazz) to talk about his new book, Neighbors and Wise Men. They also break down a brief history of the Acts 29 net…

01:16:15  |   Wed 11 Sep 2013
Everyday Sunday, Breaking Bad and Hot Toddlers

Everyday Sunday, Breaking Bad and Hot Toddlers

Go Get Trey’s New Mega-Pop Dance ep.

This week, we’re featuring an interview that Christian did with Trey Pearson, front man for the band, Everyday Sunday. Trey and Christian chatted it up at the rec…

01:05:35  |   Fri 23 Aug 2013
Zimmerman, Women in Prison and POOL SHARKS!!!

Zimmerman, Women in Prison and POOL SHARKS!!!

This week the CultureCast crew  welcomes Micky Jones, the analogy correspondent  for the Homebrewed family’s Theology Nerd Throwdown show.  She helps us break down the George Zimmerman verdict and br…

01:08:05  |   Thu 01 Aug 2013
Exodus International’s Alan Chambers, Edward Snowden and Pussy Riot

Exodus International’s Alan Chambers, Edward Snowden and Pussy Riot

This week the CultureCast Crew Gets both timely and topical  when they welcome Alan Chambers, director of the organization Exodus International has been making headlines past few weeks.  Chambers tal…

00:52:02  |   Fri 19 Jul 2013
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