When my students ask me–and soon enough they learn not to ask me–I always tell them I’m an unrepentant left-winger; after all, I’ve never thought that a Capetian monarch should…

Some truths seem self-evident once somebody has spoken them, but someone needs to make that move.  So here goes: whenever any of us teaches, that teacher teaches something.  Teaching a…

 I’ve had a working hypothesis for quite a while now that stories about the devil tell us about as much about an author’s priorities as anything else.  Milton’s devils and…

When I started my undergraduate years at Milligan College in 1995, its interdisciplinary Humanities sequence was already a well-established hallmark of its educational project.  In each of my first four…

 I’m still a young enough professor that I don’t remember a time before “critical thinking” was a buzzword in the profession.  Back in the fall of 2000, when first I…

Download or Stream this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles In Shakespeare’s plays, Rome as a setting invites new kinds of questions: in a narrative universe separate from the claims…

Download or Stream this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles I’m old enough to remember when the popular press painted philosophy professors as peddlers of postmodernism, heedless of truth and…

Download or Stream this Episode Subscribe to The Christian Humanist Podcast Dan Dawson, Blake Miller, and Nathan Gilmour talk about the strange path of the noun “deconstruction” and its unpredictable…

Download or Stream this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles I’ve never been a professional psychologist, but when people talk about “Platonic” this and “Gnostic” that and–Heaven help us–”Greco-Roman thought”…

Download or Stream this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles All colleges, or at least the ones I know, have dedicated alumni who will tell you that their alma mater…

Play or Download this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles In my life as a professor I sometimes hear people oppose college education to vocational education, and I know basically…

Download this Episode Subscribe to Christian Humanist Profiles If you’re looking for words that mean so many things that they’re hard to use in mixed company, you’d do well to…

Subscribe to The Christian Humanist Podcast Listen to this Episode Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller in the Christian Humanist Radio Network crossover event on The…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour talks with Thomas Jay Oord about his recent book “Open and Relational Theology.”

Download or Stream this Episode Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann famously says that, as far as the Bible is concerned, any Pharaoh is just a Pharaoh–Genesis and Exodus don’t take…