Tripp walked into his local cigar lounge this week and walked out with a one-and-a-half-cigar lecture on the Nephilim from a true believer — and now he and Bo are doing what a few regular chat-room members asked for, a full TNT on fallen angelic watchers, giant hybrid offspring, CRISPR, Peter Thiel, Mount Hermon, the 33rd parallel, the UN, reptilian royal bloodlines, and why your YouTube algorithm may never recover from one wrong click. Bo brings the charismatic-evangelical back catalog — George Otis Jr., prayer-walking Bosnia, the Prince of Persia, the 10/40 window, the Joshua Project — Tripp brings Michael Heiser, three interpretive options for Genesis 6, and a deeply researched week with the book of Enoch. They get where it actually matters eventually: the Manichean temptation of hybrid-evil cosmologies, the way conspiracy theology reduces cognitive load in moments of social upheaval (tip of the hat to Hans Blumenberg), and what the Nephilim revival reveals about post-Christendom re-enchantment. Plus Theology Beer Camp lineup updates, a Brian McLaren text that may or may not contain a subtle dig at the twentieth century, and Bo’s community pantry getting a glass-front fridge.

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The injustices we face are immense—but they are not unique. What theological and ethical tools and ideas can we take from previous generations to confront our social ills today?

For over four decades, Dr. Gary Dorrienhas been one of the foremost scholars of liberal theology, social ethics, and democratic socialism—tracing the movements and figures who dared to believe that Christianity demands justice. His multi-volume histories have shaped how a generation understands the social gospel, Black theology, and the ongoing struggle for a more just world.

This course begins where all serious social ethics must begin: with the social movements themselves.What was actually happening when Reverdy Ransom and Ida B. Wells called for a “new abolition”? How did Reinhold Niebuhr’s realism shape—and sometimes limit—Christian engagement with power? Why did welfare mothers become the leaders of a national movement for economic justice? What made James Cone declare that Black Power was the gospel?

Only by understanding what these figures and movements accomplished thencan we wrestle with what faithfulness demands of us now.

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