“If you’re going to preach the Scripture in today’s world, you have to ask: what is the dominant socio-economic structure? It’s Pax Americana. It’s America.“ - Tony Campolo, Baptist preacher, author and justice campaigner who died this week. Episode 108 is our way of remembering him and features an interview from around 2012.

Greenbelt 2024 was lovely. Here's our rundown of what we loved. What was your Greenbelt like?

Greenbelt is the best festival in the world. Maybe even the UK. And the Creative Director joins us at his busiest and most stressful time of year to talk festivals, guests, art and spirituality in a hope-filled episode that also happens to be our 100th.

We’re always told to vote for ‘the lesser of two evils’. But what if we don’t want to vote for evil at all? We’re told to vote for ‘harm reduction’, but does that have any meaning when both parties seem to condone genocide? Election talk on Beer Christianity, episode 99.

Remembering legendary theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who died recently, with an archive interview about faith, politics, economics, the environment and art. The gang discuss the great man’s answers and what they could mean for us.

Deconstructing is the process of unpicking learned, usually conservative faith, to move into a different experience of religion (or its rejection). It’s kind of a big deal. And kinda weird we’ve never spoken about it before.

Some musings, thoughts and assertions about Palestine and how one Beer Christianity host thinks Christians should view the situation.

You’ve probably heard about the campus protests ninthStates, but have you heard from the students at encampments in the UK? Here’s your chance. Laura goes into the Oxford Gaza solidarity encampment to talk to protestors and ear their hopes, concerns and demands.

A play about the capture and killing of the radical preacher and populist demagogue Y’shua Bar Yessuf leads to a discussion of the banality of evil and the cascading effects of selfishness and systemic injustice, with actor, activist and playwright, Justin Butcher. Taking a Satan’s-eye-view of Easter as a starting point, Jonty and Justin talk spirituality, ethics, politics, Palestine and the play.

Do you feel like you belong in church? Have you ever? Do we even need to belong for church to be good? And what the hell is church, anyway? Episode 93 of Beer Christianity talks church, home groups, belonging and community.

Leonard Cohen was a Jewish Buddhist with what some have called an obsession with Christ and his crucifixion. Our guest on Episode 92 believed the legendary singer had a lot in common with the Apostle Paul, a key figure in the birth of Christianity. Matthew R Anderson geeks out with Jonty about their favourite Leonard Cohen lines and discuss the spirituality they may have shared.

AI is going to kill us all. Or save the world. It’s going to make all out jobs easier and, quite possibly, steal our jobs. What are the real dangers, ethically, spiritually and societally, of Artificial Intelligence? Our guest on Episode 91 brings a fresh perspective.

Is Socialism inherently anti-Christian? Do Socialists want to destroy the witness of the Church? IS Christianity compatible with Socialism? What is it that Socialism offers Christians that should appeal to us? We ask these kinds of questions to Matt McManus, a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan in episode 90 of Beer Christianity.

M23, the military descendants of Rwandan militias that caused chaos in the 90s, are currently just one of many militias making Congo’s East unliveable. But the mass displacements, killings and sexual violence in Congo can be traced further back. Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo joins us to explain the history and complexity of the Congo crisis.

From fighting medical misinformation and climate change to holding the government to its pledges on drink spiking laws and tax loopholes, Jolyon Maugham and the Good Law Project are doing God’s work in Britain. We talk changing the world, facing establishment opposition and why none of us are actually drinking beer with a campaigning lawyer.

Sexism and patriarchy in churches isn’t always aggressive, macho and overtly dominative. Sometimes it hides beneath niceness, and is accepted and enacted by otherwise nice people. But it is always damaging. And our guest this episode is educating people about it. We love her. Listen!

Suella Braverman calls them ‘hate marches’ but we went on one and it was wholesome and motivated by a love of justice, including Jewish people, Muslims, Christians and, we assume, pretty much every other faith perspective. This episode takes you inside (a bit).

Beer and Hymns is one of our favourite things. That rhymes, like a good hymn should. Our guest on this episode is Steve Tinning, who helps make Beer and Hymns happen at Greenbelt festival, and who also works in issues like Asylum policy for JPIT and the Baptist Union.

Israel’s war on Gaza is already wildly disproportionate and affecting civilians who have nowhere else to go. We had to talk about it and show solidarity with Palestine because so many Christians seem to be ignoring what is really happening.

Greenbelt Festival is a progressive, feminist, LGBTQI+ affirming, Palestine-solidarity, post-capitalist, Christian, spiritual festival of arts, justice, ideas and music. It’s way more fun than that makes it sound. This is our experience of it in 2023.