The ChristianFeminist Podcast, Ep. # 29: Thanksgiving
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…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #28: Gendered Mourning
Introduction -Welcome new panelist Heather! -How this podcast topic arose from Katie’s dissertation research KNOWING The primacy of women’s roles in ancient Greek funeral practices -Preparing bodies for burial -Prothesis …
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #25: Katherine Parr
Intros Knowing A brief biography Katherine’s writings and historical importance Reading Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII Why this chapter is important to us…
Christian Humanist Profiles 38: Chris Celenza on Machiavelli
Old Nick they called him, and he earned himself a spot on the earliest versions of the earliest versions of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum with his treatise The Prince. History…
Rome Is Never Far Away: A Review of The Middle Ages by Johannes Fried
The Middle Ages By Johannes Fried (trans. Peter Lewis) 632 pp. Harvard University Press. $35.00 Johannes Fried saves the programmatic aim of his book for the last chapter, but I’ll begin…
The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Episode #2: Hope for Better Times
Having started our series with one historical theologian who helped write Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition, it only makes sense that we continue the theme this week, when we’re joined…
Jesus for a Certain Kind of Modern Mind: A Review of Christ Actually
Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp. Viking Penguin. $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…
Gene Simmons, Capitalism, and Why I’m Torn about the Death of Rock
Gene Simmons: “Rock Is Finally Dead” The Parable of the Madman from The Gay Science might seem a strange partner for a Gene Simmons interview, but the latter made me think of…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #142: The Suburbs
Michial Farmer leads a discussion with Nathan Gilmour and a very ill David Grubbs on the peculiarly modern ecosystem of suburbia. Listen and hear why we hate American Beauty, what sorts…
Am I Interdisciplinary?
Students had been saying it for years, but it wasn’t until this semester that I started wondering what it really means when students say I’m not a “real” English professor. Most…
Plato Was Not White
Another teaching semester is about to ramp up, and as is often the case, I have some Platonic dialogues lined up to teach. I’ve taught at least one dialogue in …
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 4: Mariology
Introductions, a welcome, and an apology Knowing Mary as theotokos Lots of theologians have talked about her role So have lots of feminists Mary’s feast days make this discussion a…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 2.2: Second Wave Feminism and Liberation Theologies
Sorry for the delay on this! Thanks for your patience, listeners! Knowing How we get from the first wave to the second “One is not born a woman, but…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 2.1: First-Wave Feminism
Knowing Waves of Feminism The Seneca Falls Convention The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Suffrage and Abolition Racism within the movement Suffrage, Temperance, and the WCTU Reading Iron Jawed Angels.…
Jesus, History, and Interpretation: A Response to Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 272 pp. Random House. $27.00. I’ll say this up front: New Testament Studies is a hard discipline. Its difficulty comes…