Stream or download this episode. Katie Grubbs, Marie Hause, and Laurie Norris explore the worlds of The Expanse and take deep dives into gendered power and the fervency of political belief across the books and TV series. Knowing What is the universe of “The Expanse“? What are our relationships to the various versions of the…
Stream or download this episode In today’s episode, Jordan talks to David Grubbs and Matthew Block about Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Ilia Danner Grubbs, Christina Bieber Lake, and special guest Brian Grubbs discuss the female characters in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien KNOWING A little background on our experiences with Tolkien’s work READING The main women of Middle Earth Galadriel, Arwen, Eowyn, Rosie, Lobelia, Goldberry, Luthien Notable minor characters: the entwives, Shelob, Gilraen, Ioreth,…
Laurie Norris, Katie Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about Bad Girls Club: the rise of the female anti-hero Knowing What is an antihero and how is she different from a villain? How are female antiheroes different than male versions of the character type? What role do antiheroes play for our society? Reading Case Study…
Stream or download this episode. Laurie Norris, Blake Miller, and Ilia Danner Grubbs take on The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. Knowing Background on Marvel’s Squirrel Girl character, Doreen Green Discussion of Squirrel Girl issues 2-5, time travel adventure with Doctor Doom Reading Squirrel Girl’s role as a superhero with an indefatigably positive outlook What does Doreen’s…
Stream or Download this Episode You’ve downloaded an episode of Christian Humanist Profiles, so the odds are more than fair that you’ve read some Shakespeare, watched some Shakespeare, perhaps performed some Shakespeare. But what would it mean to teach as Shakespeare’s teachers taught and think in the allusive, rhetorical manner that comes across in his…
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle concludes a conversation with David and Jordan about the final book in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy, That Hideous Strength.
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle begins a conversation with David and Jordan about the final book in C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy, That Hideous Strength.
Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Jordan Poss and David Grubbs talk with Coyle about the second book in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Perelandra.
Marie Hause, Katie Grubbs, and guest Ana Kelsey-Powell discuss The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. Topics include martyrdom in relation to gender, suffering, and motherhood.
Marie Hause, Carla Godwin, and Ilia Grubbs discuss Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Topics include the economics of marriage, the film’s narrative technique and the expectations for female characters, and ambition in relation to self-sacrifice.
There’s a lot of poetry in the Bible. Anyone who flips through its pages can see how many have that telltale jagged edge of printed verse. But it’s not only proportion: the weightiest moments, the loftiest sayings of scripture are poetic, especially the voice of God, whether through the Word of the prophets or the…
Marie Hause, Carla Godwin, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer discuss the Song of Songs. Listen here. Knowing Background on the Song of Songs, its history of interpretation, and why it’s of interest for feminists Our previous experiences of the Song Reading Summary of Phyllis Trible, “Love’s Lyrics Redeemed,” in God and the Rhetoric of Sexuality Summary…
In this special episode of The Book of Nature, Charles Hackney hosts a discussion with Jay Eldred and Jordan Poss on the Stephen King novel, The Shining, as part of our 2019 Christian Humanist Radio Network Crossover event. Enjoy this episode at this link.
Episode 111: Gender Equality in Parenting and Domestic Labor Stream or download this episode. Ilia Danner Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Norman Grubbs discuss Darcy Lockman’s book All the Rage, and issues of gender equality in parenting and domestic labor. WELCOME SEGMENT 1: KNOWING Introduction and personal background SEGMENT 2: READING Term…