The Christian Humanist

In today’s episode, Coyle bungles an overview of The Saga of Volsungs. Fortunately, Jordan is there to straighten things out as the discussion of politics in the Middle Ages continues.…

https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-christian-feminist-podcast/episode/episode-183-bluey-pt-1-300384901 Reading: Bluey has 3 seasons released in America. We will be discussing a few of the specific episodes related to motherhood specifically.  If there were three men on this…

Knowing Introductions First impressions Background on Other Feminisms and Leah Sargeant Reading How is the newsletter structured? What sort of community and what sort of thought does that structure encourage?…

-Introduction -Why discuss these poems? Knowing -Background on Donne -Background on these specific poems -The genre/structure of the poems Reading -What is an elegy, particularly one like this for a…

“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.”  When I first read those words from St. Paul, they inoculated me against certain…

Josh and Michial talk about 2021’s Raya and the Last Dragon.

The one who saves his life will lose it.  The one who sows to the spirit will reap life.  I am the way and the truth and the life.  Life…

Knowing What is lectio divina? https://www.usccb.org/bible/national-bible-week/upload/lectio-divina.pdf What  are our experiences with this form of interpretation? How has it helped us think differently about Biblical texts or our own religious practices?…

Somethin’s brewin’ on the podcast.  I wonder what it could be?  If you’ve seen the stage musical version of “The Cotton Patch Gospel” you know what and whom we’re talking…

The book I expected to read would present all the ways in which human communities in the digital age are dealing with a decentralized authority structure, how any given woman…

Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read.  In the twenty-two years since I first read A Theology of the Old Testament…

In today’s episode, Coyle, David, and Jordan continue their discussion of the Middle Ages by looking at the Strategikon of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice. Also mentioned in today’s Episode: -John…

I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called “Heaven and Nature Swing.” It led…

Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Leah Flenniken discuss medieval proto-feminist Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies.

 Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous.  N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. …