The Christian Humanist

Download or Stream this Episode In a hundred small churches’ Sunday school classrooms, on any given Sunday in a year, you’ll hear the senior citizens singing the same song: America…

Intros Listener e-mail and thanks Knowing Are the CFPers Swifties? A quick bio Reading The Gospel According to Taylor Swift 5 Ways Taylor Swift Exemplifies White Feminism A CF take…

“What’s wrong with Christianity in 2016?” Yikes. I’ve been dreading this question since we decided that our book on “Pietism and the Future of Christianity” would mirror the structure of…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour answer your queries and insults. [2:50- 6:20] Calculus, engineers, and mathematical education [6:20 – 11:40] Oldies and Neo-Calvinism/Emergent [11:40- 16:50] Medieval thinking and interactive sites…

Download or Stream this Episode Those with ears to hear have heard, no doubt, that liberals and conservatives in American politics have polarized federal politics in unprecedented manners, with even…

Deuteronomy 26:1-11  • Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16  • Romans 10:8b-13  • Luke 4:1-13 Since Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, I have a public-service announcement to make: LENT IS A FAST. FASTING MEANS ABSTAINING FROM SOMETHING INHERENTLY GOOD, FOR…

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of names–their meaning and their power.

Exodus 34:29-35  • Psalm 99  • 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2  • Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) Now that I preach only occasionally, usually when our preacher at Bogart Christian Church is out of town, I realize that one of…

Download or Stream This Episode Unleashing Opportunity from Falls City Press Brit Stack and Stephanie Summers sit down to talk about what everyday people can do to fight poverty and expand…

Knowing Our first Jane Eyre experiences A Christian feminist novel? Reading Rochester’s mistress v. St. John’s wife Bessie, Bertha, and women speaking up for women Jane and religious intermediaries Brocklehurst…

Download or Stream this Episode Join Danny Anderson, Drew Van’tland, and the Book of Nature’s Todd Pedlar for a discussion about the American (and the Christian) obsession with football. Is…

In this episode of the Book of Nature, Dan, Charles, and Todd discuss the nature of the philosophical concept of metaphysics, and especially its connection to the scientific endeavor.  …

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour leads Todd Pedlar and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Shusaku Endo’s novel Silence.

Jeremiah 1:4-10  •Psalm 71:1-6  • 1 Corinthians 13:1-13  • Luke 4:21-30 I’ll admit that the gospel reading for this week is one that would have tempted me to too-easy, shock-value sermons in a…

Download or Stream this Episode Letters of Fire from St. Pauls Press Settle in and join Nathan Gilmour and Father Thomas Esposito, O. Cist., for a conversation about letter-writing, Harry Potter,…