The Christian Humanist

Sorry it’s late, folks–I totally spaced on it! General Introduction – Nathan defends! – How sound editing works – Listener feedback – What’s on the blog? And why NOT? The…

Good question.  As some of you (my Facebook contacts, certainly) know, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation yesterday afternoon, bringing a LONG grad student career to an end.  (To be…

Alright, folks.  I’m kinda defending my doctoral dissertation tomorrow, so there might be a lectionary post later this week, or the next one might go live next Monday.  Either way,…

Nathan Gilmour is only familiar with two of Alex Preston’s top ten literary believers.  How many do you know? C.S. Lewis the lover of old books Thomas Frank (whom Gilmour…

General Introduction – Welcome back, Professor Grubbs! – Welcome back, respectability! – How did Nathan blog so much? What Is Romanticism? – Not the sentimental relationship – Not the genre…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 12 February 2012 (Sixth Sunday of Advent, Year B) 2 Kings 5:1-14  • Psalm 30  • 1 Corinthians 9:24-27  • Mark 1:40-45 2 Kings 5 begins with an assertion that YHWH…

General Introduction – Still in the decimels – Grubbs and the yearbook Who Is Philip Cary? – And who designed his book cover? – Eastern University – Anxiety and the…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 5 February 2012 (Fifth Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) Isaiah 40:21-31  • Psalm 147:1-11, 20c  • 1 Corinthians 9:16-23  • Mark 1:29-39 This week’s gospel reading is one…

Erasmus and the plundering of Egyptian gold Good advice for parents of young children (with Greek words!) What kind of school teacher makes that kind of money? An anti-Creationist take…

General Introduction – Still in the decimals – I haven’t the faintest idea – What’s on the blog? – Last man standing Conservatism in The Office of Assertion – Some…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 January 2012 (Third Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) Jonah 3:1-5, 10  • Psalm 62:5-12  • 1 Corinthians 7:29-31  • Mark 1:14-20 The way I read the Bible has changed over…

Jesus > Religion on YouTube I didn’t want to watch this video.  I certainly didn’t want to write about it.  But after it appeared for the eighth time or so…

Ted Gup rails against the verbal filler “like.”  (Does he overreact?) As Gilmour pulls within weeks of his dissertation defense, an argument for more diversity in dissertation projects Bringing peer…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 15 January 2012 (Second Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) 1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)  •  Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18  • 1 Corinthians 6:12-20  • John 1:43-51 As far as I’m concerned (that’s not…

Good News for Anxious Christians: 10 Practical Things You Don’t Have to Do by Phillip Cary 197 pp.  Brazos Press.  $14.99. Phillip Cary was one of the best guests ever…