The Christian Humanist

Michial Farmer, back from 2015, leads a discussion of the Back to the Future trilogy with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs.

Download or Stream this Episode Some would say we’re all on a journey throughout life. We might be a career woman, stuck in a ditch after our son died. We…

After the New Atheist Debate By Phil Ryan 196 pp. University of Toronto Press $22.95. Of all the books written regarding the “New Atheist” (hereafter, NA) phenomenon, this the first that I’ve…

Download or Stream this Episode In the latest episode of Sectarian Review, Danny Anderson chats with Mark Trump and Thom Dawkins about “Voice in the Age of Mansplaining.” This month’s…

Download or Stream this Episode The Seventh Seal on IMDB Todd Pedlar, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour dig into The Seventh Seal, a movie at once medieval and modern, digging into questions…

It sounds strange to say it now, but the first major English translations of Søren Kierkegaard’s work weren’t published until almost a century after his death. The Walter Lowrie translations…

Download or Stream this Episode Marie Hause, Kristen Filipic, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer recap and respond to the recent “Why Christian?” conference held at St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis…

Download or Stream This Episode In this episode, Todd Pedlar leads a discussion with Dan Dawson and Charles Hackney concerning the erstwhile planet, Pluto, an episode topic sparked by the fascinating recent…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour, David Grubbs, and Danny Anderson talk back to listeners and answer your emails. The subject matter breaks down as follows: 3:00-9:35 [The Excluded…

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. So says Francis Bacon; but who will help us design this literary…

Download or Stream this Episode G.K. Chesterton, “The Miracle of Moon Crescent” G.K. Chesterton, “The Hammer of God” Get the Grubbses the Internet: Mission Accomplished! David Grubbs, Todd Pedlar, and…

** We apologize for the audio glitches in this episode. Intros Knowing How we heard of Nadia Bolz-Weber; why she appeals to us Reading The style of Pastrix: “a messy…

Download or Stream this Episode “This Is Water” transcript “This Is Water” on YouTube Danny Anderson chats with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about David Foster Wallace’s graduation speech “This…

Every week, it seems, the Pew Research Center publishes a new discouraging, maybe even terrifying report on religion in America. We’ve been told, for example, that all the major Christian…

Download or stream this episode Laches on The Internet Classics Archive After a misfire on the opening (yes, Gilmour realizes now that this is episode 166), Christian Humanists Nathan Gilmour, Todd…