Download or Stream this Episode When one wanders for forty, what comes next? For Chris Maxwell, the answer is that he shares his reflections and confessions, his observations and his questions with anyone who would[…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 254: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Christmas Bells” and its musical adaptation, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
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The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Episode #34: Munich
The fourth season of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast wrapped up with Sam Mulberry and me talking about our favorite memorials, museums, meals, and masterpieces in the southern German city of Munich. In addition, we closed with some[…]
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The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Episode #33: Paris
Sam and I are back from our Thanksgiving break to talk through the next stop on our “World Wars in Western Europe” tour: Paris, France After trying to decide whether or not Paris is our favorite[…]
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Christian Humanist Profiles 135: A Beginner’s Guide to Dante’s Divine Comedy
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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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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