The Christian Humanist

General Introduction    – St. Bonaduce – Listener feedback – Our new sponsor: Comcast Cable! Eliciting Personal Reactions – The social place of the horror film – Sequels ad nauseam…

  Knowing When was the Third Wave? Why was the Third Wave? Pop culture and “The personal is political.” Reading http://www.girlstothefront.com/ Laurie was a punk rocker: anger, class consciousness, and…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – We talk about Mike Tyson for awhile What Is Postmodernism? – Modernism without the anxiety – Incredulity toward metanarratives – Playfulness and literary production…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy I’m going to appropriate and extend Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of a tradition here and posit that to be part of the tradition…

General Introduction – Wrapped up in wires – How tall are we? – Listener feedback The Descent to the Underworld – Opening the third act – Katabasis – A gender-reversed…

Sorry for the delay on this! Thanks for your patience, listeners!   Knowing How we get from the first wave to the second “One is not born a woman, but…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Up to a certain point, reading one book of the Bible at a time (or, sometimes, one segment of one book of…

General Introduction – Danny’s first hosting stint! – Listener feedback – Analytic philosophy Background and Context – Why Lucas didn’t direct – The good student – How the movie was…

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…