The Christian Humanist

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…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – The Christian Feminist Podcast Beginning with Grammar – Reflection of essential being – The trouble with the term – Self-concept and projected self –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 29 September 2013 (19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16  • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146  • 1 Timothy 6:6-19  • Luke 16:19-31 As I often do, I’m…

I tend to agree with a recent article by Stephanie McDougall about the superficiality of so many iterations of the “strong female character.”  Too often such a figure is a…

At a faculty-development last week at Emmanuel College, my friend and colleague Tracy Reynolds, said, in passing, that when he meets with students, he prefers to go somewhere other than…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – The Christian Feminist Podcast The Background of the Letter – Obstinate segregation – Commercial protests – King’s arrest – The forgotten letter it responds…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 September 2013 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9  • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113  • 1 Timothy 2:1-7  • Luke 16:1-13 Yes, it’s been a while since I wrote…

Knowing Christian Feminism: an oxymoron? Why Christians might object to the label Why Feminists might object to the label “The personal is political.”   Reading Julé, Allyson, and Bettina T.…