The Christian Humanist

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 May 2012 (Pentecost, Year B) Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14  •  Psalm 104:24-34, 35b  • Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21  • John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 The first warning I got was thus: Don’t import the…

I seem to get into some trouble when I ask questions about political matters, but here goes anyway.  I honestly don’t get some of the online reactions to North Carolina’s…

Faith In Writing: Essays In Honor Of Jack L. Knowles I’ve now seen photos in which Jack is holding this book, so I can announce it without ruining the surprise.…

When consumerism in education exceeds even Gilmour’s threshold of credulity Mark Bauerlein wonders what happens to the novel in the age of consumer divorce And in other news, partisan Republicans…

Hello. No show notes today–the topic lends itself to your being surprised. Enjoy!

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 May 2012 (Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B) Acts 8:26-40  • Psalm 22:25-31  • 1 John 4:7-21  • John 15:1-8 First things first: I apologize for missing…

General Introduction – David’s new baby – Last weeks of the semester – Bewildering listener feedback – A plug from Homebrewed Christianity Historicize! – 9/11 – Bush vs. Gore –…

I realize I’m a dinosaur in all sorts of ways, and my paleophilia runs all the way from a preference for epics over novels (though some novels are undeniably good)…

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…