# John Dominic Crossan

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Steve Bannon Is Not an Idiot: Reinhold Niebuhr's Unheeded Advice for a Democracy in Crisis

This is an audio essay from my Substack, Process This. Look, I wasn't planning to write 5,000 words on Steve Bannon, but then he goes on his podcast and announces that ICE—the same agency that just shot two American citizens in Minneapolis—is going to "surround the polls" in November, and I could…

The Allure of the Screen and the Erosion of the Soul: Smartphones, Fascination, and the Call to Contemplation

This is an audio version of an essay on my substack, ⁠Process This⁠. In it, I explore the tension between contemplation and fascination in the digital age, particularly regarding smartphone use. Inspired by my son's school essay on phone-free schools, I took up a Lenten social media fast. Learning …

Cheap Grace in a Red Hat, Stealing Bonhoeffer’s Fire: What Bonhoeffer Actually Meant—and Why It Condemns His Admirers

Friends, this week we're diving into something that's been eating at me for a while now—how the architects of Christian nationalism have had the audacity to claim Dietrich Bonhoeffer as one of their own. I'm talking about Project 2025 invoking "costly grace" as if Bonhoeffer wasn't writing about th…

The Exhausted Soul and a World Gone Mute: The Economy That Ate Your Soul and Wants to Blame You

Okay, so you know that bone-deep exhaustion you feel? That sense that no matter how hard you run, you're still falling behind? What if I told you that's not a personal failure—it's a structural trap? German sociologist Hartmut Rosa has been asking why modern life feels like a whirlpool we can't esc…

Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: the Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism

This is an audio essay from my SubStack, Process This. ⁠⁠⁠You can head over here to read or watch the entire essay⁠.⁠⁠ I grew up as a Baptist church planter's kid, and the church gave me everything that matters most to me—my faith, my love of Scripture, my relationship with Jesus. But for over two…

Manifesting America: MAGA & the New Civil Religion

This is an audio version of an essay on my substack, ⁠Process This⁠. The essay explores the evolving spiritual landscape of America, noting the decline of traditional religious institutions and the rise of new forms of meaning-making. Here, I examine how Donald Trump and the MAGA movement reflect a…

The New Colonialism: Power, Data, and the Transformation of Human Experience

This is an audio version of an essay on my substack, ⁠Process This⁠. The essay explores how digital platforms have transformed human experience into a new form of colonialism. It discusses the historical evolution of the internet from a decentralized space to one controlled by tech giants, and high…

Jesus And Justice: A Conversation With John Dominic Crossan & Michael Okinczyc-Cruz

This Quoircast Podcast episode is brought to you by the Snarky Faith Podcast In this episode we chat with John Dominic Crossan & Michael Okinczyc-Cruz John D. Crossan is generally acknowledged to be the premier historical Jesus scholar in the world. His books include The Historical Jesus, Je…

He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?

What did Jesus really think about money? When he overturned the tables of the money changers in the Temple in Jerusalem, accusing them of turning a sacred "house of prayer" into a "den of robbers", he also set off a series of events that would eventually lead to his death. But what exactly was he a…

Actions Speak Louder -- 26th Sunday 2026

(86) 26th Sunday 2026 Our Question: What is a central “cross” in my life? A cross that I bear. Online research says: The Talmud features a famous passage stating that Ezekiel "annulled" a harsh decree made by Moses. Moses stated in Exodus that God "visits the sins of the fathers upon the children.…