The Christian Humanist

David Grubbs gets spooky with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour as the trio discusses the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Conversations range from literary influence to biological racism, with some…

Knowing A quick bio of Sheryl Sandberg The birth and spread of the Lean In brand Media responses Reading Our experiences of women in authority (with bonus introduction to our…

Series Index Emmanuel College’s Wittgenstein group meets today, which means I’m behind on getting the latest blog post up here.  So it goes.  As with previous posts, numbers refer to section numbers,…

David and Nathan answer your listener emails today while Michial assesses outcomes for his college. [04:11] Let your sins be strong? [10:21] Robert Louis Stevenson [13:41] Some episode suggestions from…

It’s a pity to waste a sloppy story. That’s what I couldn’t stop thinking after finishing up God’s Not Dead, a recent film that’s made some waves among Christians on…

Howdy, all. If you’re having trouble downloading episodes of The Christian Humanist Podcast this morning, that’s because we’re waiting for all of our distribution vehicles (FeedBurner, iTunes, Stitcher, and such)…

Nathan Gilmour chats a spell with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Psalm 119. The trio ranges from the literary form of the verse to the ways that the Psalm…

For a generation now we’ve heard the numbers and the lingo. More than half depart the Church after high school, and only a remnant remain after college. They’re the spiritual-but-not-religious,…

Knowing A bit of biography The Pre-Raphaelite Movement C. Rossetti as Christian poet Reading Our experiences with Rossetti’s work; Why she’s a spiritual midwife of the CFP http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174268 “Up-Hill” and…

Sorry folks. As sometimes happens, technology has conspired to make this week’s episode a non-starter. Fortunately, we will, given the good will of God and Skype, be back next week…

The True.  The Good.  The Beautiful.  Such are the calls to arms for the Romantics and the Idealists, the philosophers as well as the poets.  All sorts of people praise…

Series Index Emmanuel College’s Wittgenstein group keeps rolling along as we approach our next Wittgenstein meeting.  Before that happens, though, I should get a guide in place both for those reading…

Dan Dawson leads a discussion with Todd Pedlar and Charles Hackney to introduce the newest Christian Humanist Network project, “The Book of Nature”. The three scientists describe their respective scientific…

Michial Farmer holds court with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the children’s novel The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupéry. The trio digs into the satirical and philosophical character of…

Certain philosophers shake up the world with a new frame of reference, a new central question, a new way to proceed in doing philosophy.  In the twentieth century Martin Heidegger…