Katie Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Alexis Neal give an introduction to complementarianism as it functions in marriage relationships and church ministry. Introduction Why might we need to define complementarianism…

Download or Stream this Episode Arthur Miller and David Simon, each a genuine American tragedian, saw in the world a clash of powers, jealous gods one and all, each of…

Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer answer listeners’ emails. [03:30- 07:40] Fandom email of gratitude [07:45- 10:03] Peter’s pronunciation guide [10:05-16:15]  Eucharist wars: The Seven Year Battle [16:15- 24:50] Faith and…

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…

Knowing Christian courtship culture: a very short introduction Our courtship-adjacent experiences Reading First Love, Last Love: Courtship Culture and the Teen Cancer Romance The article’s argument Do our experiences bear…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of names–their meaning and their power.

In this episode of the Book of Nature, Dan, Charles, and Todd discuss the nature of the philosophical concept of metaphysics, and especially its connection to the scientific endeavor.  …

On August 28, 430 AD, as a Vandal army lay in siege around his beloved city, Bishop Augustine of Hippo Regius died and left Christendom a legacy. In the centuries…

Knowing Firefly week and why we are four Firefly’s genesis and Whedon’s goals When we discovered the show; how we feel about it Reading Masculinity: Mal v. Jayne, Book and…

Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with Todd Pedlar and Charles Hackney on the subject of the Large Hadron Collider.  They have a lot of fun (maybe too much fun) discussing…

Michial Farmer interviews Dr. Mark Strauss about his latest book, Jesus Behaving Badly.

Who says psychology has a replication crisis? These people do: http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 Listen to the episode here. Introduction and listener feedback. Psychology has a replication crisis… maybe. Do not challenge the…

It sounds strange to say it now, but the first major English translations of Søren Kierkegaard’s work weren’t published until almost a century after his death. The Walter Lowrie translations…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour, David Grubbs, and Danny Anderson talk back to listeners and answer your emails. The subject matter breaks down as follows: 3:00-9:35 [The Excluded…

** We apologize for the audio glitches in this episode. Intros Knowing How we heard of Nadia Bolz-Weber; why she appeals to us Reading The style of Pastrix: “a messy…