{"podcast":{"title":"Homebrewed Christianity","slug":"homebrewed-christianity-723917","podcast_index_feed_id":723917,"rss_url":"http://feeds.feedburner.com/homebrewedchristianity/podcast?feed=podcast","website_url":"https://trippfuller.com/category/podcast/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/16030766-0e39-11ef-96f2-5f51629bb23b/image/1a7906e01a7b1d876c8c00047ed692ad.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister","episode_count":986,"summary":"Our goal is to bring the wisdom of the academy's ivory tower into your earbuds. Think of each episode as an audiological ingredient for your to brew your own faith. Most episodes center around an interview with a different scholar, theologian, or philosopher.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T16:21:11.772159+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917"},"episode":{"title":"The Power Made Perfect in Weakness: Nonviolence as Metaphysical Revelation","slug":"the-power-made-perfect-in-weakness-nonviolence-as-metaphysical-revelation","published_at":"2026-04-22T10:34:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917/the-power-made-perfect-in-weakness-nonviolence-as-metaphysical-revelation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NAANT4666416782.mp3?updated=1776288808","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NAANT4666416782.mp3?updated=1776288808","summary":"There is a habit in Western theology so old it feels like air: imagining God as the supreme instance of coercive power — the divine despot whose omnipotence is measured by the capacity to override whatever resists. Whitehead called this the deep idolatry, and we would rather work like cross-builders than cross-bearers because of it. This essay argues that nonviolence is not a secondary ethical application of Christian faith, a political strategy, or a counsel of perfection for those with the luxury to afford it. Nonviolence is a metaphysical revelation — a disclosure of the actual structure of divine agency in the world, worked out across the long history of the cosmos and concentrated in the particular life of a first-century Jewish peasant. The power made perfect in weakness is not an exception to how the universe works. It is the deepest account of how the universe works. I am writing as someone who has done the cross-building too, and this is my attempt to name what is at stake when we make that choice, and what becomes possible when we stop. This audio essay is the kind of theology you will find at Process This — my Substack. You the join 75k+ subscribers and get them all delievered to your inbox. This lecture was sponsored by Humanitas, the Anabaptist Mennonite Centre at Trinity Western University. I was honored by the invitation, and the three days I spent with students and faculty were some of the best conversations I've had this year. My thanks to Dr. Myron Penner, who runs the Centre, and to Dr. Shannon Parrott and Dr. Jesse Nickel for their responses to the lecture — responses that sharpened the argument in real time. And to the Canadian podcast listeners who came out after the talk: you made the trip. ONLINE CLASS - Theology for Troublemakers: Christian Soc…","meta_description":"There is a habit in Western theology so old it feels like air: imagining God as the supreme instance of coercive power — the divine despot whose omnipoten…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2392,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/homebrewed-christianity-723917/episodes/the-power-made-perfect-in-weakness-nonviolence-as-metaphysical-revelation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917/the-power-made-perfect-in-weakness-nonviolence-as-metaphysical-revelation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}