In our annual Christmas episode, David Grubbs talks about George Frideric Handel’s 1742 oratorio The Messiah, with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer.

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are…

Everybody’s excited about the Trinity right now. Sure, it’s a venerable, orthodox doctrine, but it’s also a hot topic, and in a broad range of Christian traditions, too. The modern…

For a while now, there’s been in American Evangelicalism a growing sense that not all is well, that we have drifted, that we have lost touch with our world and…

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about seminar-style classrooms. The Art of the Follow-Up Question

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Alan Jacobs’s recent essay “The Watchmen.” Michael Eric Dyson’s “Cornel West’s Rise and Fall” Marilynne Robinson’s “Fear” Robinson’s interview with…

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie Jurassic Park.

Science fiction is driven, not by rockets or lasers or robots, but by wonder. The vastness of space, the mystery of the shattered atom, the possibilities of technology—all push the…

Ora et labora: Pray and work. This directive has ordered the life of Benedictine monastics for centuries, each day’s rhythm of worship and toil shaping the soul toward love and…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Simone Weil’s essay “Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of…

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in the second of our three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in the first of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s 1999 book For Common Things.

Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the 1995 Vigilantes of Love album Blister Soul.

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of the 1986 non-classic Top Gun.

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the Hebrew patriarch Joseph.