The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 192: Hopkins’s Terrible Sonnets
Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s six “terrible sonnets.”
Sectarian Review 18: Monuments and Memory, part 2
Download or Stream this Episode This episode continues Sectarian Review’s discussion of historical memory, the value of forgetting, and what to do about Confederate flags. Part II Protesting Building names…
City of Man, Episode 14: The Benedict Option
Download or Stream this Episode In today’s episode, Ed and Coyle discuss the “Benedict Option,” Rod Dreher’s much-discussed call for Christians to “withdraw from the mainstream, for the sake of…
Christian Humanist Profiles 85: Science Fiction Theology
Science fiction is driven, not by rockets or lasers or robots, but by wonder. The vastness of space, the mystery of the shattered atom, the possibilities of technology—all push the…
Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #43: Reading Paul with N.T. Wright
Host’s Note: Please forgive the uneven recording quality of this episode. Nathan Gilmour was supposed to make a backup copy of the audio in case these sorts of things happened,…
Christian Humanist Profiles 84: Ontic Ethics
Download or Stream this Episode Ontic Ethics at Lexington Books What does it mean to exist as a human being? Are some people more human than others by virtue of their…
Booklets of Nature, Episode 1: Disappearing Particles?
In a recent article at Quanta Magazine, entitled “What No New Particles Means for Physics” author Natalie Wolchover discusses what some in high energy physics view as a “nightmare scenario”…
Booklets of Nature
A new feature from the Book of Nature crew is coming, entitled “Booklets of Nature”. As the name implies, this will be a short-feature podcast, which enables the Book of…
Reading through The Crucified God, part 1: Thematic Introduction, plus The Identity and Relevance of Faith
Series Index Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God, 40th Anniversary Edition I hear what some of you are saying. “That’s not Kant!” Fear not, friends. The next Kant post is coming…
City of Man, Episode 13: Civility, Tolerance, and Smugness
Download or Stream this Episode In this episode, Coyle and Ed talk about the challenges of contemporary American political discourse, and the alleged “smugness” of liberals. Episode 13 Show Notes…
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: The Choir
This is the first entry in what will be a regular ongoing series, in which I examine the history and discography of some of the best artists in the underground…
Sectarian Review 17: Monuments and Memory, part 1
Download or Stream this Episode In this, the first of two episodes about cultural monuments, Danny Anderson is joined by Jay Eldred and Jordan Poss. The three discuss the indeterminacy…
Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 42: Ghostbusters
Introductions Listener Mail Knowing Controversies surrounding the 2016 film Our experiences of the 1984 film Did we like the remake? Reading Violet Ramis Stiel on Ghostbusters Chaz Ebert on Ghostbusters…
Reading through Principles of Christian Theology part 13: Chapter 21
Series Index Principles of Christian Theology by John Macquarrie John Macquarrie’s Principles of Christian Theology does not have a conclusion in any formal sense; instead he ends the book with…
Reading Through Principles of Christian Theology part 12: Chapters 19-20
These chapters–“The Word and Sacraments” and “Worship and Prayer”–flow rather naturally from the previous chapters, in that we are talking about the means by which the Church performs its mission…