With all due respect to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Garrison Keillor, the Twin Cities’ most notable literary export is probably Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the beloved comic strip…

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the Hebrew patriarch Joseph.

Download or Stream this Episode Charles Hackney Interviews Heather Vacek about her recent book Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness.

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Lionel Trilling’s 1961 essay “On the Teaching of Modern Literature.”

Download or Stream this Episode As the world around us becomes increasingly polluted, as its natural resources become increasingly depleted, as climate change continues to progress, largely unabated, scientists warn…

If we consult the Holy Scriptures we can have no doubt that God promised his church here on earth a better state than this. Philipp Jakob Spener (1675) Given all…

Nathan Gilmour talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the American Pastime.

Download or Stream this Episode Danny Anderson throws down on praise movies, films with an express aim to save souls and galvanize evangelicals against an unclean culture, with Todd Pedlar…

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons.

Mark, Sam, and I had expected to be recording the next episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast right about now, but we’ve decided to postpone for a week our discussion of why Pietists —…

Download or Stream this Episode In a hundred small churches’ Sunday school classrooms, on any given Sunday in a year, you’ll hear the senior citizens singing the same song: America…

“What’s wrong with Christianity in 2016?” Yikes. I’ve been dreading this question since we decided that our book on “Pietism and the Future of Christianity” would mirror the structure of…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour answer your queries and insults. [2:50- 6:20] Calculus, engineers, and mathematical education [6:20 – 11:40] Oldies and Neo-Calvinism/Emergent [11:40- 16:50] Medieval thinking and interactive sites…

Download or Stream this Episode Those with ears to hear have heard, no doubt, that liberals and conservatives in American politics have polarized federal politics in unprecedented manners, with even…

Download or Stream This Episode Unleashing Opportunity from Falls City Press Brit Stack and Stephanie Summers sit down to talk about what everyday people can do to fight poverty and expand…