The Christian Humanist

David Grubbs leads Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of museums.

Download or Stream this Episode This week, Coyle and Ed offer up Part II of their discussion of the Executive Branch and the Presidency. In Part I, they discussed the…

For a while now, there’s been in American Evangelicalism a growing sense that not all is well, that we have drifted, that we have lost touch with our world and…

This is part of a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground Christian rock scene of the…

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony.”

Download or Stream this Episode In this pair of episodes, Ed Coyle interview two Christians who are voting in very different ways. In the Episode 17, we speak with Nick Rodriguez,…

Download or Stream this Episode Consider, friends, the final days of Socrates as Plato relates them in the Crito.  He refuses to flee Athens precisely because any protest he could…

Intros and guest panelists Knowing Cultural definitions of singleness Reading “Is Getting Married in God’s Hands?” from More than Don’t Have Sex Is there a “one”? The problem with “waiting…

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1976 Sylvester Stallone movie Rocky.

Download or Stream this Episode In this episode, Ed and Coyle discuss, not the current presidential election, but rather the office of the presidency itself, the nature of the powers…

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about seminar-style classrooms. The Art of the Follow-Up Question

Søren Kierkegaard’s enduring popularity might be due as much to his unconventional and fascinating life as to his writing. Most of our listeners are, I’m sure, familiar with its central…

Katie Grubbs, Marie Hause, and Maria Chappell discuss the films of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, which are often identified as feminist because of his focus on young female protagonists. *Welcome…

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Alan Jacobs’s recent essay “The Watchmen.” Michael Eric Dyson’s “Cornel West’s Rise and Fall” Marilynne Robinson’s “Fear” Robinson’s interview with…

This is part of a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground Christian rock scene of the…