The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #79: The Doctor Is In!
General Introduction – Welcome back! – A hot Minnesota August – Nathan’s premature semester – Looking forward to David’s J-Term – Prolegomena to Rock – Listener feedback – Can we…
A Brief (and Predictable) Response to David French
An Open Letter to Young, “Post-Partisan” Evangelicals by David French Post-Partisan Evangelicals, Perception Versus Reality, and the Moral Primacy of the Abortion Debate by David French Since I’ve commented recently…
So how long WERE you in grad school?
Good question. As some of you (my Facebook contacts, certainly) know, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation yesterday afternoon, bringing a LONG grad student career to an end. (To be…
Lectionary Post Deferred
Alright, folks. I’m kinda defending my doctoral dissertation tomorrow, so there might be a lectionary post later this week, or the next one might go live next Monday. Either way,…
Chris Maxwell on Epilepsy Awareness
Epilepsy Awareness at Thanksgiving Chris Maxwell, Emmanuel College’s campus minister, has asked me to pass this link along to our readers. Chris has been a good friend to me in…
Off to SAMLA
There won’t likely be a Lectionary post tomorrow, as I’m reading a paper and participating in a roundtable on Writing Across the Curriculum at the annuel SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern…
No Lectionary Post this Week
I have to offer a mea culpa this week–I’m preaching in Emmanuel College’s convocation service on Tuesday (tomorrow), and the time that normally I’d devote to writing a lectionary post…
The perfect age…
Happy Birthday to CHP guest host and little brother Ryan Gilmour today! He’s reached the age that Thomas Aquinas regarded as perfect.
No Lectionary Posts for a Bit
Due to VBS ramping up at Athens Christian Church this week and Nathan Gilmour’s traveling north (where Internet time is even more limited than it tends to be at home),…
An Apology for a Missing Lectionary Post
I am sorry that there will be no Bible post this week. This weekend I preached at Athens Christian Church’s Sunday morning service, and rather than write my weekly Bible…
Shades of Thou: A KJV Postscript
In our last podcast, we lingered a bit on the aesthetic quality of the King James Version’s archaic language. There was one point I forgot to mention, though: namely, the…
The Hoosier on Daylight Saving Time, November 2010
And God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament to signal the coming of day and the passing of night, and let their courses be set until the end…
Economic Reality and Gospel Proclamation: A Response to "The Just One Challenge"
“The Just One Challenge” from The Christian Standard Perhaps this little essay will not sustain the interest of any but those who are involved with the Stone-Campbell tradition, those congregations…
A Link or Eight for to Ponder and Meditate
Susan McWilliams laments that Modern Family has benefits that actual modern life has stripped away from most families. Patrick Deneen wonders whether 18th-century liberalism had inherent in its project the…