Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Jordan Poss and David Grubbs try to convince Coyle that the first book in C.S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy, Out of the Silent Planet,…

A short (for us) episode on the coronavirus.

Download or Stream this Episode “Two men walking up a hill/ one disappears, and one’s left standing still.”  Whether someone hears that first as a Larry Norman melody or, like…

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…

Stream or download this episode. In these two episodes, Coyle and Ed tackle the Right and the Left, first talking about a contemporary movement in conservatism that attempts to reground…

Download or Stream this Episode The Gifford Lectures have always taken as their project to “promote and diffuse the study of natural theology in the widest sense of the term,”…

Download or Stream this Episode Twenty years ago, when I was in seminary, I read all about idolatry: I learned that it only became a meaningful category when Israel emerged…

Download or Stream this Episode “The best thing that one can do with a Bible is to read it.”  That’s one of the proverbial words I remember from my beloved…

Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle talks to Danny and Michial about Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Elvis Presley, and their influence on country music.

Download or Stream this Episode When I teach the text of Job in college classrooms, what students will tell me before we start reading, with only a bit of variation,…

Download or Stream this Episode In his famous essay “On the Reading of Old Books” C.S. Lewis praises the texts of ages past not because they were so often right–none…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour, along with many at the Christian Humanist Radio Network, was sad to hear of Roger Scruton’s death this week.  To honor his work…

Throughout her long history, Christ’s Church has been united and divided by words. For that reason, our creeds and confessions often have mixed reputations: they are the pure apostolic tradition;…

What is a monk? The word evokes the image of a man robed and cowled, tonsured in the West, bearded in the East. It recalls the architecture of the monastery,…

Stream or download this episode. In this episode, Coyle and Ed give their summary thoughts about Richard Niebuhr’s classic work. Their conversation turns to an extended discussion of the idea…