The Christian Humanist

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 31 March 2013 (Easter Sunday, Year C) Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 65:17-25  • Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24  • 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 or Acts 10:34-43  • John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12 Some of you might have suspected that I…

General Introduction – Ooh, he card read good! – Listener feedback – Amish on the beach – We’re on Stitcher The History of Distance Education – Correspondence schools – For-profit…

General Introduction – We read the poem – Happy snow—happy, happy snow! – No listener feedback The Great Odes of 1819 – What do they have in common? – Experimentation…

General Introduction – We read the poem – Listener feedback – The best listener email ever The Back Story – Laudanum – Seeing images – The disruptive doorbell – The…

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General Introduction – We read the poem—and it takes awhile – Committee meetings – A lot of listener feedback Theory and Poetry – Ordinary language – Why you need the…

Because I (foolishly) scheduled two classes’ worth of draft-revisions this week, I’ll be holding off on Lectionary posts until next Monday.  In the meantime, you can get other Lectionary posts…

So January started to wrap up, and I got the notification: Gus Cole-Kroll, podcast listener and Christian Humanist friend, had called on me, along with Tripp Fuller of Homebrewed Christianity…

Evolution’s Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins by Steve McIntosh 260 pp. Selectbooks. $24.95. More than anything else, this book reminds me that philosophy and…

General Introduction – Dry, bleeding Kansas – Hardcore listener feedback Ancient Greek Art – Our access to it – Black and red, figure and background – The Parthenon – Classical…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 17 February 2013 (First Sunday of Lent, Year C) Deuteronomy 26:1-11  •  Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16  •  Romans 10:8b-13  •  Luke 4:1-13 I tend to make much of the parallels between Moses…

Every community’s complex practices require the process of tradition, what Alasdair Macintyre helpfully identified as the ongoing debate about what it means to practice what the community practices and to…

General Introduction – Grubbs is back! – Old English – Snow – Listener feedback Etymology – Not promising – Madness and wood Biblical Forests – The Epic of Gilgamesh –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 10 February 2013 (Transfiguration Sunday, Year C) Exodus 34:29-35  • Psalm 99  • 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2  • Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) Returning to this episode in the gospels reminds me that I’ve…

A couple things got me thinking about the big questions that I would want to explore when it comes to academic life in Christian colleges.  First, on January 26, Danny…