The Christian Humanist

David Grubbs leads Danny Anderson and Nathan Gilmour on a professional/clerical/official journey through the office.  We start with the Roman Empire and don’t slow down until we’re so far into…

Download this interview or listen on Stitcher Chaucer amuses us and Shakespeare moves us and Donne charms us, but among English poets none towers over us quite as John Milton…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Heavenly Thesis Defense Dante’s ascent through Heaven’s catechism culminates, as do so many of our educational experiences, with an oral examination.  There’s…

Musical Intro – Jason Isbell “If it Takes a Lifetime” Opening Quotation – “The Place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Unexpected Company There’s a certain mindset among progressive-minded folks that one or two significant points of difference, especially on moral questions, means that…

Download or Stream this Episode For folks like me, born in the mid-seventies, abortion has always been standing judicial precedent, always the stuff of political elections, always a reality of…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Analogy and Allegory More than in the first two Canticles, Dante spends a great share of his lines in Paradiso telling us, the…

Intros Knowing A brief biography Katherine’s writings and historical importance Reading Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII Why this chapter is important to us…

Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of the book of Amos.

Every generation of the faithful must learn and relearn the vocabularies and symbols and narratives of the faith, and theology in an era of hyper-literacy demands different disciplines than theology…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia When Knowledge Passes Away Virgil’s long explanation of the genesis of souls and bodies poses a particular sort of intellectual challenge: this version…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Speech of the Saved I’ve taught Dante’s Purgatorio to three cohorts of upper-division literature students, and each time, the students do alright…

Series Index About the time Todd’s travel schedule allowed him to dig back into this series, my own summer travels picked up, and you know what that means: we just…

Today we conclude the first season of The Pietist Schoolman by talking with the woman whose preface opened our book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education. After spending much of her career as…

“Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” With this proverb, the ancient Hebrew sages defined the value of friendship. Similarly, the Stoic Marcus Aurelius began his Meditations enumerating the…