The Christian Humanist

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…

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…