The Christian Humanist

Danny Anderson leads a conversation with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Kenneth Burke’s essay “Terministic Screens.”

A crushed rose. An unwrapped, dirt-encrusted lollipop. Something that has lost its value: goods that have been damaged beyond repair. We’ve all heard these sorts of descriptions applied to people,…

Intros Listener Mail Knowing Quick bio of Amy Poehler Quick bio Of Tina Fey Highlights of their shared careers Reading Our connections to Fey and Poehler Leslie Knope v. Liz…

Series Index Wittgenstein, in this session’s readings concerns himself with relationships between our general terms and the ranges of realities to which they relate.  Once again in his sights seem…

Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 play Huis Clos, generally translated into English as No Exit.

Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an…

I Believe in One God By Pope Benedict XVI 157 pp. St. Pauls. $14.95 Believe it or not (and if you know me at all, you’ll believe it), I did…

Series Index At this point I’m not posting things before the meetings or even the day of the meetings but catching up from missed meetings.  Mea culpa.  For those just…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour respond to a range of listener questions and comments. Our subject matter follows this schedule: [1:56] How can we conceive of the inconceivable if the…

When we try to make sense of the world, narrative is everything.  And when we tell the story of theology in late modernity, we underestimate at our peril how important…

Intros KNOWING Publication and reception of Ancillary Justice A bit on the novel’s novel approach to gender A very brief history of gendered pronouns in Feminist Theory READING Pronouns and…

In another crossover with Craft Lit, Nathan P. Gilmour and Heather Ordover interview Bryan Doerries of the Theater of War project.  Theater of War brings Athenian tragedy to the stage…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? “Ally” as a term A big moment for feminism in the zeitgeist HeforShe Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEzgu7l4NI http://feministcurrent.com/7988/how-to-be-a-male-feminist-ally/ Allies in the Bible? Passing On http://www.amazon.com/Half-Church-Recapturing-Global-Vision/dp/0310325560 http://www.christianhumanist.org/why-christian-feminists/…

I won’t rehearse the details of last Wednesday’s attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo, a Parisian satire magazine.  Those anyone can find with a Google search.  I do write, however,…

To be saved means to be in a story where the characters need saving.  That ground-floor reality motivated a generation of theologians and Bible scholars to think of Christianity in…