A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: 16 Horsepower
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: 16 Horsepower WHO ARE THEY? Someone once described them to me as a Flannery O’Connor short story come to life–which sounds about right, actually.…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #219: Quartet for the End of Time
Listen to this episode. Michial Farmer discusses Olivier Messiaen’s modernist piece Quatuor pour le fin du temps with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs. Hear the piece. “An Audubon in Sound.”
Before They Were Live, Episode 4: Dumbo
Listen to this episode. Visit our website. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer discuss 1941’s Dumbo with special guest Victoria Reynolds Farmer!
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #218.1: Oedipus at Kolonos
Listen to this episode. With Michial Farmer out sick, David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour talk about Sophocles’s play Oedipus at Colonus. The last few minutes of the show are lost…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 67: The Crown
Knowing Background on The Crown Our experiences watching the show Reading/Watching Church and divorce and Church and State Margaret’s dilemma Ep. 3, “Windsor,” and gender expectations Passing On Mashable…
Harvey Help: A Plug for Someone Else
Two someone elses, really. As you all know, Houston was hit with historic flooding during Hurricane Harvey a month ago. The recovery is well underway on a city-scale, but in…
Christian Humanist Profiles 116: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing
Augustine called the Sermon on the Mount “a perfect standard of the Christian life.” John Calvin said it “collect[ed] into one place the leading points of the doctrine of Christ,…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 66: Listening to Truth’s Table
Knowing Intros Announcement: CHP at Dordt conference Thanks to new Facebook fans and Becky for the episode suggestion Why we’re doing this episode Reading Atlantic article on Truth’s Table Gender…
Review of “A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards” by Nathan A. Finn and Jeremy M. Kimble (eds)
“I resonate with the lament of Os Guinness and David Wells that evangelicalism today is basking briefly in the sunlight of hollow success. Evangelical industries of television and radio and…
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Michael Knott
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Michael Knott WHO IS HE? Well, he’s the lead singer of Lifesavers Underground, for one–but also of Lifesavers, Lifesavors, the Aunt Bettys, Cush (for…
Before They Were Live, Episode 3: Fantasia
Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about Walt Disney’s third feature film, 1940’s Fantasia. Download or stream this episode. Visit our website.
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Vigilantes of Love
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Vigilantes of Love WHO ARE THEY? Like The Violet Burning, they are essentially one person: in this case, singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist Bill Mallonee (MAL-uh-nee,…
Review of “The Vanishing American Adult” by Senator Ben Sasse
That the American people are increasingly petulant and immature is so common an observation that it is very nearly a tired one at this point. Fortunately, Senator Ben Sasse has…
Before They Were Live, Episode 2: Pinocchio
Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about Walt Disney’s second feature film, 1940’s Pinocchio. Download or stream this episode. Visit our website.
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 64: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Knowing Background on the novel and our relationships with Neil Gaiman as an author How the mysteries of faith and our own personal “mythos place” work in the…