Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, “Those Winter Sundays” and “The Whipping.”
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Christian Humanist Profiles 211: When Did Eve Sin?
In Adam’s fall, we sinned all! So declares the New England Primer. Yet its woodcut for that couplet shows the serpent offering the forbidden fruit to Eve, not Adam. What are we to make of the Woman’s temptation and the maddeningly terse narrative describing it? Centuries of commentary have focused tightly on small details, hearing…
Rebroadcast: The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 214: The Grape Prophet
Stream or download this episode. The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally and on vinyl.
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 312: The Augsburg Confession
Stream or download this episode. Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 311: Major Tom
Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969’s “Space Oddity” and 1980’s “Ashes to Ashes.”
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #140: Brave New World
Knowing Our experiences with the novel Neil Postman on why the novel is applicable to our lives Some historical background: Modernism, technology, governing social narratives, and bioethics Reading How this novel compares to other 20th-c. dystopias Sexuality divorced from reproduction The specter of Shakespeare and what books do for us What do they worship in…
Before They Were Live, Interlude 5: Duck Tales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
Stream or download this episode.Visit our website. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about 1990’s Duck Tales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 310: Christian Humanism in Service of the Church
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.
Christian Humanist Profiles 210: The Evening Sky
Stream or download this episode. The poet Charles Hughes’s first collection of poems, 2014’s Cave Art, wasn’t published until he was in his sixties, after more than three decades working as a lawyer. Michial Farmer read that book almost by accident to review it for the Englewood Review of Books and was surprised and delighted…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 309: Afternoon in Linen
Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson’s 1943 short story “Afternoon in Linen” with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.
The Core Curriculum, Series 4, Episode 10: The Odyssey, Books 22-24
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Coyle Neal, Jordan Poss, and Jay Eldred discuss books 22, 23, and 24 of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961) and Robert Fagles (1996). Jordan compares the climax of The Odyssey to the climax of Taken. David says John Wick. Homer utilizes “arrow time,” which puts him ahead…
The Core Curriculum, Series 4, Episode 9: The Odyssey, Books 19-21
Stream or download this episode. Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Jordan Poss, and Christina Bieber Lake discuss Books 19, 20, and 21 of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fagles (1996) and Emily Wilson (2018). The prophecy about the suitors made Victoria think of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Odysseus is a combination of a five-year-old…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 138: Best of 2020
In this all-recommendations episode, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Kim Feldman, and Carla Godwin discuss the things they read, watched, listened to, and thought about that made 2020 a little less of a dumpster fire. Leave your recommendations in the comments! Books: Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan novels; Jack by Marilynne Robinson; The Grisha Trilogy; The Murderbot Diaries; The…
The Core Curriculum, Series 4, Episode 8: The Odyssey, Books 17-18
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about books seventeen and eighteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Samuel Butler (1898), Robert Fagles (1996), and Stanley Lombardo (2000). These books feature the first episode of Undercover Boss. Odysseus disguises himself like King Henry V. Odysseus takes part in Bronze Age Mission…
The Core Curriculum, Series 4, Episode 7: The Odyssey, Books 15-16
Stream or download this episode. Jay Eldred, Jordan Poss, and Michial Farmer discuss books fifteen and sixteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Robert Fagles (1996) and Stanley Lombardo (2000). Jordan gets some cracks in at Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy. And Michial takes a shot at Argo. Like Don and Betty Draper, Menelaus…