Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Sola Scriptura
Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation. We can learn a fair…
Philosophy, Theology, Literature, and Other Things Human Beings Do Well
Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation. We can learn a fair…
In today’s episode, Nathan and Coyle talk about what primaries are and the possible consequences to Presidential elections of abandoning them.
Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another. But etymological roots don’t go…
What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s…
If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for different reasons, some writers in Biblical…
History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things…
The Mystery Gang rides again! Alexis Neal, Katie Grubbs, and Laurie Norris talk about the classic Robert Altman film Gosford Park. Introduction Knowing Summary and background info on Gosford Park Personal…
What does Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution say, and what does it mean for the 2024 election? Listen in as Coyle and Nathan ask those and…
Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus surveys on his way to the…
In today’s Episode, a potential new direction is explored by the City of Man podcast, beginning with a look at polarization in contemporary America.
You have heard that it is said: love your neighbor and hate your enemy. Translations might differ, but what follows comes across well in most translations: Jesus enjoins those hearing…
In today’s episode, Coyle talks to attorney Matthew Martens about his new book Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal and what changes should be under consideration for the American justice system.
Theology and literature have always seemed a natural pair to me. In fact, I’ve written a Master’s Thesis examining Ezekiel with the help of William Blake; another digging into Christology…
The stereotype, whether we want to dismantle it or acknowledge it, holds that those who teach college English begin a quest in graduate school to be rid of teaching writing.…
Laurie Norris and Jay Eldred have an lively conversation about what cosplay means to them and how dressing up as someone else helped them both discover who they are. Knowing…