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…

General Introduction – Skeleton crew – Cold weather – No listener feedback Opera as Super-Art – 16th-century Italy – Its roots in humanism and classicism – Connections to tragedy –…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 3 February 2013 (Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, Year C) Jeremiah 1:4-10  •  Psalm 71:1-6  •  1 Corinthians 13:1-13  •  Luke 4:21-30 Popular acclaim can get ugly in a hurry.  Certainly that’s…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 January 2013 (Third Sunday of Epiphany, Year C) Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10  • Psalm 19  • 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a  • Luke 4:14-21 “To fulfill” is one of…

General Introduction – Where’s Grubbs? – A programming note – Listener feedback C.S. Peirce – What do our sentences mean? – Synthesizing physical phenomena – Peirce as Father of Analytic…

General Introduction – A month of decimals – What’s David teaching? John Donne and Death – Does he appeal to the bodily resurrection? – Quippiness, chipperness – Taking death seriously…

  Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 January 2013 (Second Sunday of Epiphany, Year C) Isaiah 62:1-5  • Psalm 36:5-10  • 1 Corinthians 12:1-11  • John 2:1-11 People in my Christian tradition, and…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 January 2013 (Baptism of the Lord, Year C) Isaiah 43:1-7  • Psalm 29  • Acts 8:14-17  • Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Promises concerning Israel’s future are about restoring a past that…

Howdy, podcast listeners and blog readers!     Six days from now, on January 8, Michial and Nathan will be recording the first .1 episode of 2013, and our sole…