The Christian Humanist

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Book 3, Chapters 82-85 of Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War, and its ruminations about…

Stream or download this episode In today’s episode, Coyle, Michial, and Danny talk about changes in Country Music between 2010 and 2020, focusing on some of the best selling artists…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas–“Thorstein the Staff-Struck” and “Authun and the Bear”–to Michial Farmer.

Stream or download this episode In today’s episode, Coyle talks to Edmund Fawcett about his recent book Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition.

Stream or download this episode. Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction.

Knowing Since many Western Christian traditions celebrated Easter Sunday two weeks ago, and some are still celebrating what is referred to as the Easter season, it seems both timely and…

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Sixpence None the Richer’s 1997 self-titled album. The one with “Kiss Me.”

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs dives into St. Bede’s “Ecclesiastical History” to talk to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria.

Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle again talks to Andrew Walker about freedom of religion and his new book Liberty for All: Defending Everyone’s Religious Freedom in…

Wondering what implications that developing person-like artificial intelligence has on actual human relationships? Listen in as Christina Bieber Lake, Alexis Neal, and Kim Feldman discuss the brilliant 2015 novel Speak,…

Stream or download this episode. Mathew Block and David Grubbs talk about the English translation of the Psalms undertaken by Mary Sidney Herbert and her brother, Sir Philip Sidney. John…

In the popular imagination, J.R.R. Tolkien was a man born for another time, a medieval anachronism—like his friend C.S. Lewis, a self-proclaimed dinosaur. There’s some truth in that: he was…

Laurie Norris, Katie Grubbs, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer talk about Bad Girls Club: the rise of the female anti-hero Knowing What is an antihero and how is she different from…

Stream or download this episode. Josh and Michial talk about Disney’s 39th full-length animated feature, 2000’s Dinosaur.

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Louise Glück’s poems “The Drowned Children,” “Vespers,” and “Vita Nova.”