The Christian Humanist

Blaise Pascal was one of those polymaths that only the Enlightenment could have produced. He was one of the sixteenth century’s most important mathematicians, and Pascal’s Triangle alone might have…

In the third episode, Charles Hackney places himself in the hot seat and allows the two “hard” scientists to weigh in on his chosen field.  With fear and trembling, Charles…

Intros Listener E-mails Knowing A short biography of Barbara Brown Taylor A summary of Learning to Walk in the Dark Reading Treasures of Darkness: Abandoning “ solar spirituality” Darkness and…

Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Immanuel Kant’s 1784 essay “What Is Enlightenment?”

Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most important texts in the history of sociology, and people have been citing it with various…

As children attending Sunday School, it is easy to become enthralled with stories of important, holy people, people who, though they had otherwise ordinary jobs and problems, God seemingly hand-picked…

The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance By Albert J. LaChance and Rebecca LaChance Goodwin 192…

Series Index Once again I’ve waited until the day that Emmanuel College’s Wittgenstein group meets to write the latest blog post. It’s November.  Give me a break.  As with previous posts, numbers refer…

Nathan Gilmour converses with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Dead Poets Society, the second of our Robin Williams trilogy. The trio takes on the strange, truncated readings of poetry…

Democracy, as a way of life, requires that the citizens of the democracy share an education in common, a set of stories and aptitudes and even experiences from which we…

Comply with Daylight Saving Time!

Episode 2: Science vs. Scientism In the second episode, Todd Pedlar hosts a discussion of an important distinction for scientists of any kind, let alone Christians who are active in…

Mea Culpa: In this episode, I (Michial) say that Amanda Plummer is British. In fact, she is the daughter of Christopher Plummer and is therefore American/Canadian. I still hate her…

Victorian preacher and author George MacDonald has, especially among Christian readers, a serious reputation. Both for his seriously meditative fantasy novels, beloved of C.S. Lewis and others, and his seriously…

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien 425 pp. Houghton MIfflin Harcourt. $28.00 There’s a special kind of joy that fills the air when a…