The Christian Humanist

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour talk about banned books and the history of censorship.

Cultural critics of a certain persuasion will sometimes suggest that the Bible is a force to conserve what is most stable in human society, to call us back from our…

Knowing Catcalling and the public body: defining terms Reactions to catcalling Countermovements Reading http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SH-victorian-london.pdf Our own catcalling/street-harassment experiences Passing On http://www.org/about/what-is-street-harassment/ http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/02/02/watch-this-gutsy-girl-humiliated_n_6593590.html?utm_hp_ref=india http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/street-harassment-vocativ-video_n_5637529.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/cnn-catcalling-video-steve-santagati_n_html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialectic_of_Sex

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: A Protestant View of the Cosmic Drama By Jerry L. Walls 219 pp. Brazos Press. $19.99 Written theology, in my own experience with the faith, serves…

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of Stanley Hauerwas’s cranky 1991 speech “Honor in the University.” Download episodes of The Christian Humanist Podcast

From the lips of many a professor at many a Christian college the words “integration of faith and learning” sound as natural as “liberal arts” or “critical thinking.”  Yet, as…

In episode 4, it is a period of civil war.  Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base… wait, wrong franchise! Ahem, in episode 4, Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with…

The UNKingdom of God: Embracing the Subversive Power of Repentance by Mark Van Steenwyk 184 pp. Intervarsity Press. $16.00. The New Testament deals with empire at every turn, whether the…

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…