Download or stream this episode Laches on The Internet Classics Archive After a misfire on the opening (yes, Gilmour realizes now that this is episode 166), Christian Humanists Nathan Gilmour, Todd…

David Grubbs leads Danny Anderson and Nathan Gilmour on a professional/clerical/official journey through the office.  We start with the Roman Empire and don’t slow down until we’re so far into…

Download this interview or listen on Stitcher Chaucer amuses us and Shakespeare moves us and Donne charms us, but among English poets none towers over us quite as John Milton…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Heavenly Thesis Defense Dante’s ascent through Heaven’s catechism culminates, as do so many of our educational experiences, with an oral examination.  There’s…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Unexpected Company There’s a certain mindset among progressive-minded folks that one or two significant points of difference, especially on moral questions, means that…

Download or Stream this Episode For folks like me, born in the mid-seventies, abortion has always been standing judicial precedent, always the stuff of political elections, always a reality of…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Analogy and Allegory More than in the first two Canticles, Dante spends a great share of his lines in Paradiso telling us, the…

Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of the book of Amos.

Every generation of the faithful must learn and relearn the vocabularies and symbols and narratives of the faith, and theology in an era of hyper-literacy demands different disciplines than theology…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia When Knowledge Passes Away Virgil’s long explanation of the genesis of souls and bodies poses a particular sort of intellectual challenge: this version…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia The Speech of the Saved I’ve taught Dante’s Purgatorio to three cohorts of upper-division literature students, and each time, the students do alright…

Series Index About the time Todd’s travel schedule allowed him to dig back into this series, my own summer travels picked up, and you know what that means: we just…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Worthy of the Kingdom Dante couldn’t care less about my evangelical sensibility and sensitivities, and I love him for that. Even beyond the…

Series Index The final section of Philosophical Investigations brings the language-game approach to questions of ethics, and once again, the real benefit of reading and thinking about what Wittgenstein is…

Series Index John Ciardi’s Translation of the Commedia Hypocrites and Church-Thieves Living seven hundred years after Dante’s poetic career makes the final stretch of Inferno a particular philosophical challenge, largely because…