The Christian Humanist

With all due respect to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Garrison Keillor, the Twin Cities’ most notable literary export is probably Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the beloved comic strip…

The two days when the federal government mandates that the sun rise and set at different times, of course! I’m just sayin’.

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the Hebrew patriarch Joseph.

Download or Stream this Episode Charles Hackney Interviews Heather Vacek about her recent book Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness.

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Lionel Trilling’s 1961 essay “On the Teaching of Modern Literature.”

Download or Stream this Episode As the world around us becomes increasingly polluted, as its natural resources become increasingly depleted, as climate change continues to progress, largely unabated, scientists warn…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 March 2016 (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year C) Joshua 5:9-12  • Psalm 32  • 2 Corinthians 5:16-21  • Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 I know I gripe about this too much, but…

Knowing Christian courtship culture: a very short introduction Our courtship-adjacent experiences Reading First Love, Last Love: Courtship Culture and the Teen Cancer Romance The article’s argument Do our experiences bear…

If we consult the Holy Scriptures we can have no doubt that God promised his church here on earth a better state than this. Philipp Jakob Spener (1675) Given all…

Nathan Gilmour talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the American Pastime.

Isaiah 55:1-9  • Psalm 63:1-8  • 1 Corinthians 10:1-13  • Luke 13:1-9 Too often, I fear, folks praise a writer or other public figure as “prophetic” because that public figure speaks moralistically, often aggressively against people…

Download or Stream this Episode Danny Anderson throws down on praise movies, films with an express aim to save souls and galvanize evangelicals against an unclean culture, with Todd Pedlar…

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Arthur Miller’s 1947 play All My Sons.

Mark, Sam, and I had expected to be recording the next episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast right about now, but we’ve decided to postpone for a week our discussion of why Pietists —…

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18  • Psalm 27  • Philippians 3:17-4:1  • Luke 13:31-35 or Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) The second Sunday in Lent, a season dedicated to fasting and reflection on our sins, seems a…