The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 24: A New Beginning

A short episode to lead off season three. We’ll be back to our usual length next week. Our new standard theme music (you won’t hear it that often–only when I can’t find something more appropriate) is “SDP” by the Danish band The Kissaway Trail. They’re like Arcade Fire without the self-seriousness because we’re like the Emergent Church without the self-seriousness!

General Introduction
- Welcome to Season 3

A New Kind of Our Lives
- Michial gets a job
- Nathan moves across the hall
- David writes furiously, teaches Beowulf
- Our race to the doctorate

Why Christian Humanism?
- Read our blog
- Openly confessional
- Forming the human character
- Not mere self-replication
- Christian humanist or humanist Christian?

Why a Podcast?
- Our history
- Existentialist, Calvinist, free-floating
- Adding respectability

Fixing the Format
- Getting looser
- Getting tighter
- Going deeper
- The dynamics of the conversation
- Nathan toots his own horn
- Actual tension without argument

What’s the Year Got in Store?
- Topics from listeners
- In which you learn what we don’t know
- Music, archaeology, politics, and the Bible’s literary influence
- More episodes on intellectual giants

A Quick Commercial Break
- Listen to CWC: The Radio Show!
- Why being in graduate school turns you lame

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