The Christian Humanist

Download or Stream this Episode To work with wood changes the formal character of the matter, shaping what once was a tree into a house here and a table there;…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs on Christopher Marlowe’s 1594 play Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus on Gutenberg.org

In the early second century, Pliny, the governor of the Roman province of Pontus and Bithynia, wrote a letter to his emperor, Trajan, about Christians who “were accustomed to meet…

Good job, America!  If we keep mandating that the sun set earlier in the winter, we’ll win World War I yet!  Only another hundred years to go!  

Who says psychology has a replication crisis? These people do: http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 Listen to the episode here. Introduction and listener feedback. Psychology has a replication crisis… maybe. Do not challenge the…

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs takes Danny Anderson and Nathan Gilmour on a walk through the Catholic university, giving attention to their history, sociology, eschatology, and all sorts…

“Feed my sheep,” Christ commanded Peter, and Peter passed on that command to others: “shepherd the flock of God that is among you … [so that] when the chief Shepherd…

Introduction -Welcome new panelist Heather! -How this podcast topic arose from Katie’s dissertation research KNOWING The primacy of women’s roles in ancient Greek funeral practices -Preparing bodies for burial -Prothesis …

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…