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.”

Download or Stream this Episode  Some people just don’t know what to do with Paul.  Browsing a bookstore will reveal attempts to pit him against Jesus, to make him the…

Download or Stream this Episode We proclaim Jesus in words, dispute theological differences in words, exhort the faithful in words.  But the spoken and the written word were never the…

Download or Stream this Episode When a nineteen-year-old college student says that she’s neither a liberal nor a conservative, I never know quite where the conversation will go next.  Will…

Download or Stream this Episode Michial and Josh talk about 1946’s Make Mine Music.  

Download or Stream this Episode Most of us Christians in the twenty-first century have a strong sense, even if not a theoretical account, that the New Testament is at once…

Download or Stream this Episode In America, we specialize in having strong feelings about everything and knowing something about a few things.  The Bible might be what taught us to…