{"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":"There Was a Time When God Was Gods with Ilia Delio","slug":"there-was-a-time-when-god-was-gods-with-ilia-delio","published_at":"2026-06-09T15:02:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917/there-was-a-time-when-god-was-gods-with-ilia-delio","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/homebrewed-christianity-723917","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NAANT3408534814.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NAANT3408534814.mp3","summary":"Ilia delivered the Axial Age lecture this past week from her temporary post in Germany, and the questions came in fast enough that we ended up touching the third rail of the whole class — the rise of monotheism. Yes, there was a time when God was not. Yes, there was a time when God was gods. Yes, Psalm 82 is in your Bible, and yes, Yahweh shows up at the divine council to judge the other deities. If that sounds sacrilegious, you might be exactly the right person to take this class. The Axial Age is when the I gets invented, the score gets written, the disengaged knowing that becomes science comes online, and 60,000 denominations begin arguing over whose copy of the score is correct. We are still inside its inertia. We are also — Ilia argues, and I think she is right — already past its hinge. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Ilia Delio, OSF, PhD is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC, and American theologian specializing in science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, and neuroscience and the import of these for theology. Previous Episodes with Ilia Delio Religion Has a Physiology: Ilia & Tripp on Why Rituals Come Before Beliefs The Machine Is a God Image Thinking Theologically about AI with Teilhard de Chardin the Future of Religion The Not Yet God Bonaventure & the Cosmos in Process Catching a Cosmic Faith the Entangled God of my Heart Join our online class – THE FUTURE OF RELIGION⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Tripp and Ilia Delio are teaming up for a brand-new four-week online class, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Future of Religion ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠— for everyone who’s read the books, asked the questions, and realized the faith they inherited doesn’t quite fit anymore. Together they’ll trace religion’s evolutionary arc and map what’s emerging on the other side. Includes 4 video lectures, 4 l…","meta_description":"Ilia delivered the Axial Age lecture this past week from her temporary post in Germany, and the questions came in fast enough that we ended up touching th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5190,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/homebrewed-christianity-723917/episodes/there-was-a-time-when-god-was-gods-with-ilia-delio/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/there-was-a-time-when-god-was-gods-with-ilia-delio.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}