Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4  • Luke 1:68-79  • Philippians 1:3-11  •Luke 3:1-6 Everyone loves the Magnificat, and I don’t blame them.  The faithful with a traditional theological bent can exult in the…

For most American Evangelicals, monasticism is a closed book, little understood, and appreciated even less. Yet throughout most of Christian history, East and West, and even today, monasticism has been…

Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with Todd Pedlar and Charles Hackney on the subject of the Large Hadron Collider.  They have a lot of fun (maybe too much fun) discussing…

Knowing Intros—Welcome, Jay! Thanks and listener mail Why we cook Reading Food in the Bible Hospitality as Christian virtue The first Thanksgiving: Myth and fact Passing On Bread and Wine…

Michial Farmer interviews Dr. Mark Strauss about his latest book, Jesus Behaving Badly.

Jeremiah 33:14-16  • Psalm 25:1-10  • 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13  • Luke 21:25-36 As I publish this reflection, I will have been an ex-preacher for almost eleven months.  I deliberated on whether I should…

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Dorothy L. Sayers’s “The Lost Tools of Learning.”

Download or Stream this Episode The first universities, and all universities for some centuries, were Christian schools.  Standing in relationship with but not identical to the Church, these colleges, communities…

Download or Stream this Episode Roger Lundin, longtime professor of English at Wheaton College, died on Thursday night. In his memory, we’re rebroadcasting my interview with him from September 2014.…

Download or Stream this Episode In this Godzilla-sized episode, Danny Anderson and Drew Van’tland are joined by Ed Simon to talk about the intersections between horror, religion, and ethics. This…

David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour attempt to defend the works of J.R.R. Tolkien against Michial Farmer–a well-known hater. CORRECTION: Grubbs mentions Faramir meditating sympathetically about a dead human soldier allied…

Download or Stream this Episode To work with wood changes the formal character of the matter, shaping what once was a tree into a house here and a table there;…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs on Christopher Marlowe’s 1594 play Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus on Gutenberg.org

In the early second century, Pliny, the governor of the Roman province of Pontus and Bithynia, wrote a letter to his emperor, Trajan, about Christians who “were accustomed to meet…

Good job, America!  If we keep mandating that the sun set earlier in the winter, we’ll win World War I yet!  Only another hundred years to go!