The Christian Humanist

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…

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.