The Christian Humanist

It’s fitting that my Dante posts stalled out right when it was time to write about sloth, no? Good Desire and Bad Desire In Canto 18 Virgil continues his explanation…

General Introduction – Yet more weather talk – Light and heavy episodes – Books for aspiring seminarians – Listener feedback Historical Background – The dedicatory epistle – Flattering the pope…

General Introduction – More weather talk – Feed problems Not Etymology but History – David turns to the OED – The Enlightenment – Byron’s parody – Intellectual vs. physical –…

The Architecture of Purgatory This section of Cantos begins to reveal connections between the terraces, both in terms of the media through which the tragic and exemplary stories come to…

General Introduction – Should we talk about the weather? – Listener feedback – The Purgatory Experiment Poe Myths – Marrying his cousin – Drug addiction – Alcoholism – Death –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 21 April 2013 (4th Sunday of Easter, Year C) Acts 9:36-43  •  Psalm 23  •  Revelation 7:9-17  •  John 10:22-30 I’ve taught Revelation, in its entirety, four times in the last…

I’ve often told people who aspire to graduate school in Biblical studies or theology that an English major might just serve them better than a Bachelor’s degree in ministry.  Most…

Finally entering Purgatory, our pilgrim gets into some of the coolest parts of the poem, those passages that start to form both a theology of desire and a theological account…

One reason that I can teach Purgatorio without the other two is because of its slow start.  Since the poem is a third done when the Pilgrim finally gets into…

General Introduction – Presenting Dr. Farmer – Listener mail – Ronald Nash – Will we resurrect the forums? Elijah’s Etymology – Changing names – My God is YHWH – Idolatry…

Because I’ve not written about Dante in a couple summers (in 2011 I was wrapping up the dissertation, and in 2012 I was wrapping up Emmanuel’s QEP), I wanted to…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 14 April 2013 (3rd Week of Easter, Year C) Acts 9:1-6, (7-20)  •  Psalm 30  • Revelation 5:11-14  • John 21:1-19 I suppose I could blame my own blindness with regards…

General Introduction – A note from the future: Michial passed his defense – Listener feedback World War I: A Hindenburg Overview – And other material conditions – Massive movements across…

I never wanted to have to make this announcement, but such is life. As of this week, in accordance with the Federal Online Operations Law, the Christian Humanist Podcast will…

General Introduction – Spring Breaked, Spring Breaking, Will Spring Break – No listener feedback The Old 100th – Which tune? – A happy coincidence – Defining our terms – Words…