Girlchild: A Novel By Tupelo Hassman 277 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $24. In her debut novel, Girlchild, the improbably named Tupelo Hassman tells the story of Rory Dawn Hendrix,…

General Introduction – What’s not on the blog? – Thus begins the triptych of spring 2012 New Testament Humility – The ethics of humility – The Golden Rule, further –…

General Introduction – Dr. Gilmour!!! – We kid because we envy – Listener feedback – The delay in show notes – What’s on the blog? What Is Epistemology? – It’s…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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:…

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…

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…

Why Read Moby-Dick? By Nathaniel Philbrick. 144 pp. Viking Adult. $25. If such a thing as the Great American Novel exists, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is almost certainly the finest example…

General Introduction – And you know what that means! – Backlog of emails – A female listener! – Toward a Christian Conception of Satire – A long digression about Steve…

General Introduction – Welcome to November, from October – Michial’s one-man war on portmanteaux – Buy our mugs! (I mean energy, not internet—we record early in the morning) – Listener…

General Introduction – Flowin’ like a bottle of Drano – What’s on the blog? – A listener vastly overestimates us Who Is Prometheus? – Deflating Gilmour’s balloon – Zeus as…