Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
What is UP, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I got real caffeinated—or maybe it was eggnog—and let the vibes take us wherever they wanted to go. We kicked things off with some personal life updates (Bo got banished to an RV for being too large and loud at Christmas, and I'm navigating the trials of doing dishes with a teenager sleeping underneath the kitchen). Then we nerded out HARD on Christmas movie power rankings after a heated debate at my cigar lounge—Christmas Vacation took the crown, obviously, but Fellowship of the Ring is a Christmas movie and I will die on that hill. The real magic happened when we completely improvised a Hallmark Christmas movie Mad Libs-style, and let me tell you, it got WILD: we've got an Episcopal deacon named Felicia, her problematic Pfizer-rep boyfriend Ted who's getting his faith formation from Jordan Peterson, and a hunky Canadian taxidermist named Clayton who runs a reindeer farm, serves venison chili at the "Roadkill Cafe," and owns a three-legged poodle named Lucky. There's fires, no room at the inn, Georgia Satellites karaoke, and theological debates about female ordination. We wrapped up with our favorite Christmas hymns (Oh Holy Night supremacy!), Bo's discovery that contemporary Christian Christmas mashups actually slap, and the revelation that AI thinks Bo is a "kenotic scholar"—which, honestly, same. Next week: Christmas party with Kate Flynn, cigars of the year, and I'm dramatically reading our Hallmark script. Merry Advent, nerds!
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What is UP, Theology Nerds! This week Bo and I got real caffeinated—or maybe it was eggnog—and let the vibes take us wherever they wanted to go. We kicked things off with some personal life updates (Bo got banished to an RV for being too large and loud at Christmas, and I'm navigating the trials of doing dishes with a teenager sleeping underneath the kitchen). Then we nerded out HARD on Christmas movie power rankings after a heated debate at my cigar lounge—Christmas Vacation took the crown, obviously, but Fellowship of the Ring is a Christmas movie and I will die on that hill. The real magic happened when we completely improvised a Hallmark Christmas movie Mad Libs-style, and let me tell you, it got WILD: we've got an Episcopal deacon named Felicia, her problematic Pfizer-rep boyfriend Ted who's getting his faith formation from Jordan Peterson, and a hunky Canadian taxidermist named Clayton who runs a reindeer farm, serves venison chili at the "Roadkill Cafe," and owns a three-legged poodle named Lucky. There's fires, no room at the inn, Georgia Satellites karaoke, and theological debates about female ordination. We wrapped up with our favorite Christmas hymns (Oh Holy Night supremacy!), Bo's discovery that contemporary Christian Christmas mashups actually slap, and the revelation that AI thinks Bo is a "kenotic scholar"—which, honestly, same. Next week: Christmas party with Kate Flynn, cigars of the year, and I'm dramatically reading our Hallmark script. Merry Advent, nerds!
I hope you enjoy it and consider supporting my work by joining 75k+ other people on Process This. processthis.substack.com
Support the podcast: HomebrewedCommunity.co
