Download or Stream this Episode In the middle of my journey through 2018, I found myself in a dark wood, and a bit more literally I found myself ready to teach Dante once more to[…]
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Category: Literature
Christian Humanist Profiles 132: Philip Ryken
In his introduction to Beowulf, the scholar Friedrich Klaeber explains the great Geatish warrior’s resemblances to Christ by concluding that “the narrative derived a superior dignity from suggesting the most exalted hero-life known to Christians”[…]
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Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #227: The Remains of the Day
Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel “The Remains of the Day.”
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Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #226: Tennyson’s Ulysses
David Grubbs takes Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour on a sea voyage through Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses.”
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Infinite Jesters, Part 3
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL SPOIL WITH IMPUNITY FROM PAGE 211 IN THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION UP TO THE 8 NOVEMBER MARK ON PAGE 321 IN THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION. SAVE THIS BLOG POST UNTIL[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 115: Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction
Download or Stream this Episode Immanuel Kant famously distinguished between things, existing as they are, impervious to our mental probings, and objects, those pieces of our world that only come to us as organized and[…]
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Infinite Jesters, Part 2
from 109 (3 November Y.D.A.U.) to the section break on 211 I come to Infinite Jest having read Wallace’s “This is Water” speech, assorted essays from his two essay collections, and his story collection Brief[…]
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Infinite Jesters, Part 1
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL SPOIL WITH IMPUNITY UP TO THE SECTION TITLED “3 NOVEMBER Y.D.A.U.” (PAGE 109 IN THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.) SAVE THIS BLOG POST UNTIL YOU’VE GOTTEN AT LEAST THAT FAR INTO[…]
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Infinite Jesters: An Introduction
Hey Humanists! This summer we’ve got another read-through for you, our first attempt to go through a novel together. Nathan Gilmour and some of his colleagues at Emmanuel College (and possibly a student or two,[…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 211: The Martian Chronicles
Download or stream this episode. Michial Farmer discusses six stories (“Rocket Summer,” “Ylla,” “And the Moon Be Still as Bright,” “The Fire Balloons,” “Usher II,” and “There Will Come Soft Rains”) from Ray Bradbury’s The[…]
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