The Christian Humanist

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about three pieces by the American postmodernist John Barth: The Literature of Exhaustion, The Literature of Replenishment, and Title. Barth as…

Zephaniah 3:14-20  • Isaiah 12:2-6  • Philippians 4:4-7  • Luke 3:7-18 Once again, reading the text of the Bible carefully reminds me why these blog posts do me at least as much good…

Before the wars in Middle-earth, before the battles of Narnia, there was a war in Europe—the Great War, the war to end war, that fell tragically short of that dream…

The Christian Humanists answer listener emails. [02:07-05:50] Speaking about things Greek [05:50-13:30] The Christian Humanist Journal [13:30-16:48] A Defense of a Sequel [16:49-22:25] Christian Existentialism [22:27-26:03] Greetings from Trinity Western…

Baruch 5:1-9 or Malachi 3:1-4  • Luke 1:68-79  • Philippians 1:3-11  •Luke 3:1-6 Everyone loves the Magnificat, and I don’t blame them.  The faithful with a traditional theological bent can exult in the…

For most American Evangelicals, monasticism is a closed book, little understood, and appreciated even less. Yet throughout most of Christian history, East and West, and even today, monasticism has been…

Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with Todd Pedlar and Charles Hackney on the subject of the Large Hadron Collider.  They have a lot of fun (maybe too much fun) discussing…

Knowing Intros—Welcome, Jay! Thanks and listener mail Why we cook Reading Food in the Bible Hospitality as Christian virtue The first Thanksgiving: Myth and fact Passing On Bread and Wine…

Michial Farmer interviews Dr. Mark Strauss about his latest book, Jesus Behaving Badly.

Jeremiah 33:14-16  • Psalm 25:1-10  • 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13  • Luke 21:25-36 As I publish this reflection, I will have been an ex-preacher for almost eleven months.  I deliberated on whether I should…

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Dorothy L. Sayers’s “The Lost Tools of Learning.”

Download or Stream this Episode The first universities, and all universities for some centuries, were Christian schools.  Standing in relationship with but not identical to the Church, these colleges, communities…

Download or Stream this Episode Roger Lundin, longtime professor of English at Wheaton College, died on Thursday night. In his memory, we’re rebroadcasting my interview with him from September 2014.…

Download or Stream this Episode In this Godzilla-sized episode, Danny Anderson and Drew Van’tland are joined by Ed Simon to talk about the intersections between horror, religion, and ethics. This…

David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour attempt to defend the works of J.R.R. Tolkien against Michial Farmer–a well-known hater. CORRECTION: Grubbs mentions Faramir meditating sympathetically about a dead human soldier allied…