The Christian Humanist

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Nathan Gilmour, and Michial Farmer discuss several meditations and prayers by St. Anselm of Canterbury.

Download or Stream this Episode Twenty years ago, when I was in seminary, I read all about idolatry: I learned that it only became a meaningful category when Israel emerged…

Persepolis is the brilliant graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi, written in three volumes. It is a coming-of-age story of a young girl during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979.…

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour conclude their discussion of Dwight Macdonald’s “Masscult and Midcult.”

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer, Todd Pedlar, and David Grubbs talk about book four of Plato’s Republic. Show Notes Our translations of the Republic: Benjamin Jowett (1888); John Llewelyn Davies and…

Download or Stream this Episode “The best thing that one can do with a Bible is to read it.”  That’s one of the proverbial words I remember from my beloved…

Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle talks to Danny and Michial about Johnny Cash, George Jones, and Elvis Presley, and their influence on country music.

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Coyle Neal, and Danny Anderson talk about the third book of Plato’s Republic. Show Notes Our translations of the Republic: Benjamin Jowett (1888); Francis Macdonald Cornford…

Stream or download this episode. We went long again! Join Michial Farmer, Nathan Gilmour, and David Grubbs for the first of two discussions of Dwight Macdonald’s 1960 essay “Masscult and…

Download or Stream this Episode When I teach the text of Job in college classrooms, what students will tell me before we start reading, with only a bit of variation,…

Stream or Download This Episode Knowing Why this episode now A very short bio of Dolly How we’re structuring the episode Reading Dolly’s Faith “Hello God” and “The Seeker“ “She’s…

Stream or download this episode. Ed Song, Joshua Altmanshofer, and Charles Hackney talk about the second book of Plato’s Republic. Show Notes Our translations of the Republic: Desmond Lee, Grube, and A.D. Lindsey.…

Download or Stream this Episode In his famous essay “On the Reading of Old Books” C.S. Lewis praises the texts of ages past not because they were so often right–none…

Stream or download this episode. Nathan Gilmour, Todd Pedlar, and Ed Song discuss book 1 of Plato’s Republic. Show Notes Our translation of the Republic: C.D.C Reeve (2004). Todd has taught Book…

Stream or download this episode. The Christian Humanist Podcast will be back with new episodes next week–in the meantime, enjoy this classic episode on Lionel Trilling’s “On the Teaching of…