Knowing When was the Third Wave? Why was the Third Wave? Pop culture and “The personal is political.” Reading http://www.girlstothefront.com/ Laurie was a punk rocker: anger, class consciousness, and…

General Introduction – No listener feedback – Our sister podcasts Our Stories with Country Music – West Virginia immigrants – Neo-Traditionalism – Country music and the Klan – The Dixie…

General Introduction – A note from the future: Michial passed his defense – Listener feedback World War I: A Hindenburg Overview – And other material conditions – Massive movements across…

General Introduction – Skeleton crew – Cold weather – No listener feedback Opera as Super-Art – 16th-century Italy – Its roots in humanism and classicism – Connections to tragedy –…

General Introduction – Whose campus smells worst? – Nathan pokes another hornet’s nest – A beer for your stomach Etymologies – Marine is boring – Okeanos – Are marines soldiers…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 18 December 2011 (Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B) 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16  • Luke 1:46b-55 or Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26   • Romans 16:25-27   • Luke 1:26-38 Once again, I’ll be preaching this text…

I don’t know why I was thinking about this most amusing of meters this morning, but it occurs to me that our good readers might help me add to the…

When Chris Gehrz (of CWC: The Radio Show semi-fame) and I first started emailing back and forth a few years ago, we talked a lot about our shared tastes in…

The album Nevermind by Nirvana and the album Blood Sugar Sex Magik by the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit the music stores.  (For our younger readers, “music stores” were retail locations where…

I don’t talk much about my music career/hobby on the podcast or the blog, but I’m swallowing my resistance to self-promotion to mention that I have recorded a new single…

The outline for Greil Marcus’s approach to analyzing Bob Dylan in his latest book, the aptly titled Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, can be found in two pieces. The first…

A conservative complains about the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame. What that R-rated incident at Northwestern University really means. Meliorists vs. Traditionalists: The cage match for the ages. Christopher…

It’s just me in today’s special episode of the podcast. As I mention in the show, I used to do this as a blog post every year, but it just…

Merry Christmas from The Christian Humanist Podcast! Our introductory narration is, as you may have guessed, from the 1977 Rankin-Bass Christmas classic Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. The song is…

General Introduction – Hey, there are three of us – A suggestion from Josh Altmanshofer – The bizarro-world podcast Starting with the Personal – Nathan Gilmour, bodyguard to the “stars”…