The Christian Humanist

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 8 January 2012 (First Sunday of Epiphany, Year B) Genesis 1:1-5  • Psalm 29  • Acts 19:1-7  • Mark 1:4-11 “He found disciples” is the most fascinating sentence…

Roger Olsen revisits the Ivan Karamazov “Rebellion” question When parents send their kids to college, whose sports cars are they financing? Educators could learn a thing or two from those…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 1 January 2012 (First Sunday after Christmas, Year B) Isaiah 61:10-62:3  • Psalm 148  • Galatians 4:4-7  • Luke 2:22-40 When people tell their own stories, we always…

Check back in the next couple days for this week’s Lectionary post. Christmas celebrations have delayed but not canceled it.

Programming note: This is a sermon that Nathan Gilmour preached at Athens Christian Church on December 18, 2011.  The sermon text was Luke 1:46-55. Introduction: Why Call it a Song?…

Insurrection: To Believe Is Human, To Doubt Divine. by Peter Rollins 185 pp.  Howard Books.  $16.00. In 2009 I started a journey into existentialism, a body of philosophy and literature…

General Introduction – The end of the semester – Freudian slips The Surplus Population – Scrooge and Thomas Malthus – Enlightenment optimism – Population checks – Tiny Tim as a…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 25 December 2011 (The Nativity of the Lord, Year B) Isaiah 9:2-7  • Psalm 96  • Titus 2:11-14  • Luke 2:1-14, (15-20) I did preach the Sunday morning sermon on Easter…

Another editorial on why colleges and universities are tanking (’cause we just can’t get enough of those) Rod Dreher on why even Catholics are Protestants now A tribute to Edward…

I see no need for show notes this week—let the bibliography speak for itself.   BIBLIOGRAPHY Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford UP, 2009. Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics:…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 18 December 2011 (Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B) 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16  • Luke 1:46b-55 or Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26   • Romans 16:25-27   • Luke 1:26-38 Once again, I’ll be preaching this text…

General Introduction – The semester’s eschaton – Listener feedback What Is an Academic Conference? – Annual gathering of learned people – The make-up of the conference – Plenary lectures and…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 11 December 2011 (Third Sunday of Advent, Year B) Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11  •  Psalm 126 or Luke 1:46b-55  •  1 Thessalonians 5:16-24   •  John 1:6-8, 19-28   If the small number of history…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 4 December 2011 (Second Sunday of Advent, Year B) Isaiah 40:1-11  •  Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13  •  2 Peter 3:8-15a   •  Mark 1:1-8 Over the years, since I discovered in 1996 that…

General Introduction – “Technical difficulties” – What’s on the blog? – David, half-asleep – Women crawl out of the woodwork Biblical Creation – Stewardship – Christ as agent of creation…