Download or Stream this Episode In his groundbreaking book After Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre begins with a simple proposal: let’s study ethics as if human beings were historical, contingent beings, and…

Download or Stream this Episode In Professing English, his history of English as an academic discipline and a university department, Gerald Graff claims that departmental boundaries are the fortifications of…

Stream or Download this Episode You’ve downloaded an episode of Christian Humanist Profiles, so the odds are more than fair that you’ve read some Shakespeare, watched some Shakespeare, perhaps performed…

Download or Stream this Episode The phrase “American exceptionalism” has become a commonplace term of concern in American political journalism.  Politicians who claim said exceptionalism, so the conventional story goes,…

Download or Stream this Episode In academic philosophy over the last century or so, the various thinkers in French and German and Slovenian traditions, even those who do not live…

Download or Stream this Episode Biblical Studies can’t seem to figure out what to do with the Greeks.  One voice warns against Platonizing influences on Christian theology, and another calls…

Download or Stream this Episode When we read the New Testament, its epistles and narratives and apocalyptic visions give us a vivid picture of life, the world, a cosmic mission. …

Download or Stream this Episode “Two men walking up a hill/ one disappears, and one’s left standing still.”  Whether someone hears that first as a Larry Norman melody or, like…

Download or Stream this Episode The Gifford Lectures have always taken as their project to “promote and diffuse the study of natural theology in the widest sense of the term,”…

Download or Stream this Episode Twenty years ago, when I was in seminary, I read all about idolatry: I learned that it only became a meaningful category when Israel emerged…

Download or Stream this Episode “The best thing that one can do with a Bible is to read it.”  That’s one of the proverbial words I remember from my beloved…

Download or Stream this Episode When I teach the text of Job in college classrooms, what students will tell me before we start reading, with only a bit of variation,…

Download or Stream this Episode In his famous essay “On the Reading of Old Books” C.S. Lewis praises the texts of ages past not because they were so often right–none…

Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour, along with many at the Christian Humanist Radio Network, was sad to hear of Roger Scruton’s death this week.  To honor his work…

Stream or download this episode. When I was in seminary, in the first year of this millennium of ours, I was quite sure I was not an evangelical: I was…