The Christian Humanist

What is a monk? The word evokes the image of a man robed and cowled, tonsured in the West, bearded in the East. It recalls the architecture of the monastery,…

-Introductions -Background on the Film (production details, etc.) -Plot Summary -Historical Context: 1850’s Oregon -How does this story relate to Plutarch’s story of the Rape of the Sabines? -Discussion: Which…

Stream or download this episode. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer discuss the 1983 extended short Mickey’s Christmas Carol. 

Stream or download this episode. In this episode, Coyle and Ed give their summary thoughts about Richard Niebuhr’s classic work. Their conversation turns to an extended discussion of the idea…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about John Chrystostom’s tenth homily on the Gospel of Matthew and Aelfric of Eynsham’s sermon for…

There’s a lot of poetry in the Bible. Anyone who flips through its pages can see how many have that telltale jagged edge of printed verse. But it’s not only…

Introductions Why this topic? Knowing About Alta Mar: production details Brief plot summary How we watched: How did you choose to watch the series? Dubbed in English? In Spanish? In Spanish…

Stream or download this episode.  Join us as we revisit last year’s episode on Dorothy L. Sayers’s aesthetics, won’t you?

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks about Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic Taxi Driver with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour.

Stream or download this episode. When I was in seminary, in the first year of this millennium of ours, I was quite sure I was not an evangelical: I was…

Alexis Neal, Carla Godwin, and Jessica Hardin discuss makeup, hair dye, cosmetic surgery, and other ways women alter their physical appearance.

In this episode, your three intrepid Book of Naturists held forth on the subject of Thought – in the ideas surrounding the differences between and complementary natures of Abstract and…

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer, Jordan Poss, and Coyle Neal talk about books 23 and 24 of Homer’s Iliad. Show Notes Our translations of the Iliad: Robert Fagles (1990) and Stanley…

Stream or download this book. Nathan Gilmour talks about the moon landing, and the space program in general, with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

Stream or download this episode. Late in his posthumously-published Philosophical Investigations, in section 373, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a cryptic aphorism regarding grammar: “Grammar tells what kind of object anything is.…