The Christian Humanist

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Tornados in Kansas – Pronouncing Karamazov – Translations Historicize! – Dostoevsky’s last novel – Biographical information – Connections to previous work The Brothers –…

And in other news, Bart Ehrman discovers that sometimes people write very stupid things on the Internet. In praise of first-year comp (I can’t remember if we’ve posted this before,…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – Listener feedback – Thanks to CWC What’s So Outrageous? – Empirical verifiability – The problems with this model – A rabbit trail about rhetoric…

General Introduction – David’s baby – On Philip Cary – Toccoa Falls vs. Emmanuel Autobiography Pre-Augustine – Caesar in the third person – Presenting the self as persona – St.…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 15 April 2012 (Second Sunday of Easter, Year B) Acts 4:32-35  • Psalm 133  • 1 John 1:1-2:2  • John 20:19-31 Until I studied rhetoric, I was vaguely…

General Introduction – Disappointing David Grubbs – Listener feedback – Stroking and broking the ego – (Yeah, my math is off) – A correction – Theologico et Ratio Translations –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 1 April 2012 (Palm Sunday, Year B) Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29  • Mark 11:1-11 or John 12:12-16 Palm Sunday is, second only to Ash Wednesday, my favorite…

The Vatican’s recent statement on the practice of theology (HT Fred Sanders) David Brooks on the gray tsunami A right-wing account of class struggle in contemporary America In which Pat…

General Introduction – What song is in David’s heart? – Good Monday – When does Spring Break start? – Listener feedback Moses in the Desert – God’s three names –…

The Christian Humanist Forum will remain open for business.  However, because Michial and I have been getting dozens of spambot application emails every day (the last time I checked the…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Who’s listening? – What’s on the blog? – Formatting a dissertation The Patience of Job – The patience of Job? – Gregory the Great…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 18 March 2012 (Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year B) Numbers 21:4-9  • Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22  • Ephesians 2:1-10  • John 3:14-21 I don’t preach from Paul often, perhaps…

Especially when the government dictates that the whole nation must get up an hour earlier every morning!  World War One is over, folks!  Down with Daylight Saving!

Martin Luther Insult Generator Cicero on Presidential Campaigning The Ideal of the Christian Humanist Douglas Groothius on why abortion is still a live issue Fred Sanders on the dramatic roots…

General Introduction – Talking weather – Listener feedback The Roots of the Episode – Who studies the Alamo? – Davids Grubbs, Crockett, and Bowie – Stories, not definitions The Courage…