The Christian Humanist

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 October 2013 (Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Joel 2:23-32 and Psalm 65  • Sirach 35:12-17 or Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 and Psalm 84:1-7  • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18  • Luke 18:9-14 Two things boggle my mind,…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy If the stories of the Biblical text are the core of the testimony (as I discussed in BrueggeBlog 2), certain questions arise:…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 October 2013 (Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104  • Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121  • 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5  • Luke 18:1-8 When a passage in the Bible leaves us…

General Introduction – Missing our cues – Listener feedback Our Histories with Star Wars – The anthropic principle – The mythology of childhood – The importance of the action figures…

When human beings want to tell stories, we often speak tales of the warrior.  Whether one reads about Saul and David, the holy warlords of ancient Israel, or about Diomedes…

Knowing Waves of Feminism The Seneca Falls Convention The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments Suffrage and Abolition Racism within the movement Suffrage, Temperance, and the WCTU Reading Iron Jawed Angels.…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy My own Brueggemann revolution started with grammar: the main way that Israel articulates the core testimony about YHWH is in the form…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Episodes on Borges and Postman? Arête – Excellence and/or virtue – Warriors and excellences – Plato’s expansion of arête – Confucian virtue – Arête…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 October 2013 (Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12  • 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111  • 2 Timothy 2:8-15  • Luke 17:11-19 Sometimes Biblical passages just beg…

That’s right, listeners.  The Christian Feminist Podcast is now available on Stitcher.  All the cool kids are listening.  Then they’re getting their phallocentric notions of “cool” subjected to radical philosophical…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation.  I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 October 2013 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Lamentations 1:1-6 and Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137  • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm 37:1-9  • 2 Timothy 1:1-14  • Luke 17:5-10 Habakkuk is one of those short…

General Introduction – The Christian Feminist Podcast – Christian Humanist Profiles – The once and future host Tradition and Roman Law – Intangible inheritances – Tradition as betrayal – To…

Among Evangelicals, John Wesley should need no introduction. A preacher, missionary, theologian,and hymn-writer, Wesley was one of those voices that shook the Enlightened eighteenth century awake, and his call for authentic faith…

Knowing Biblical modesty instruction as tied to female submission 1 Peter 3:1-4, 1 Timothy 2:9-10 Proverbs: nagging wives and leaky roofs; Proverbs 31:30 Beauty and deception: Woman’s inconstancy as literary…