Howdy, podcast listeners and blog readers!     Six days from now, on January 8, Michial and Nathan will be recording the first .1 episode of 2013, and our sole…

General Introduction – Who’s done? Who’s not? – Working on our Night Cheese – No housekeeping Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol – A Gilmour Family Tradition – Slapstick comedy—deferred – Tortured…

General Introduction – Being-towards-the-end-of-semester – Emmanuels far and near – Thanks, Theology Nerd Throwdown! – Chess update What is a Dystopia? – Topos – Utopias and dystopias – The great…

General Introduction – Dissertation guilt – Listener feedback – The Christian Humanist Chess League Background to the Crusades – The difficulty of Crusades history – The build-up – The Crown…

General Introduction – This time David’s sick – Advising time – Old English – Listener feedback Who Was Flannery O’Connor? – Contemporary popularity – Iowa Writer’s Workshop – Christian theology…

General Introduction – Nathan’s snottier than usual – David goes back to bed – Listener feedback Death in the Bible – A Psalm of Moses – Daniel speaks out –…

General Introduction – Manageable outcomes assessment – Midterm grades vs. Fall Break – Listener feedback – Teaching rhetoric at Christian colleges The Controversy Over the President – What the Anti-Federalists…

General Introduction – David squares the circle – The chatter continues on the blog – Email, Facebook, or nothing at all What Is a Federalist, Anyway? – The Articles of…

General Introduction – Why we don’t have a Dr. Who episode – The Facebook page So What Is Realism? – The Oxford Guide weighs in – Realism vs. unbelievability –…

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…

General Introduction – Displacement – David’s library carrel – Like us on Facebook! – Listener feedback Our Offices – Avoiding them, sharing them, owning them – Time management and privacy…

Hello. No show notes today–the topic lends itself to your being surprised. Enjoy!

General Introduction – David’s new baby – Last weeks of the semester – Bewildering listener feedback – A plug from Homebrewed Christianity Historicize! – 9/11 – Bush vs. Gore –…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Listener feedback – Thanks to CWC What’s So Outrageous? – Empirical verifiability – The problems with this model – A rabbit trail about rhetoric…

General Introduction – David’s baby – On Philip Cary – Toccoa Falls vs. Emmanuel Autobiography Pre-Augustine – Caesar in the third person – Presenting the self as persona – St.…