Download or Stream this Episode I remember translating the opening verses of 1 Timothy 2 for a Greek class in seminary.  I had read the passage in English, and I…

Download or Stream this Episode Alasdair MacIntyre’s books taught me over the years to attend to the history of our moral language.  In some places, at some times, humility will…

Download or Stream this Episode Something went haywire with American politics not long into the social-media age.  Report after report told us that America was sick and tired of the…

Download or Stream this Episode Some time in the nineteenth century, somebody decided it was a good idea to move writing out of its prominent place at the apex of…

Download or Stream this Episode On the first terrace of Purgatory proper, the pilgrim Dante looks up and looks down and sees art everywhere, art so grand that it surpasses…

Download or Stream this Episode What is the chief end of a human life?  Do we look to the catechism and say that the glory of God is the ultimate…

Download or Stream this Episode “At this level, at the college level, there are no single, simple formula that will tell you the best way to proceed.  You must become…

Download or Stream this Episode To claim that God created all things, seen and unseen, is as uncontroversial as the historical creeds–and as controversial.  Such a claim leads readily to…

Download or Stream this Episode On April 28, 2018, theologian James Cone died, and many like me who were seminarians in the last quarter of the twentieth century knew that…

Download or Stream this Episode When one wanders for forty, what comes next?  For Chris Maxwell, the answer is that he shares his reflections and confessions, his observations and his…

Download or Stream this Episode In the famous chapter “Rebellion” in Dostoevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov does not offer logical proof that the universe does not admit…

Download or Stream this Episode Every vision of human goodness takes its most memorable form in stories.  Courage conjures tales of warriors and martyrs. Wisdom might remind us of particularly…

Download or Stream this Episode From the valley of the shadow of the podcast mic to the customized xml feed, from the offices of professors to the lost mustard seed,…

Download or Stream this Episode In the middle of my journey through 2018, I found myself in a dark wood, and a bit more literally I found myself ready to…

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Miles Davis jazz album “Kind of Blue.”