Liberty has always carried tricky questions with it.   Most folks in 2025 would agree that human beings should have liberty, but how one becomes free persists as a debate. …

My own tradition within the Church was an early adopter of the motto “No creed but Christ.” For what intentions are worth, my forerunners seem to have had good ones:…

Among education writers, the phrase “critical thinking” can run from nebulous notions to utter ciphers. Few will disagree that critical thinking is good and needed, but relatively few will agree…

https://episodes.castos.com/62606055986397-20842277/1834312/c1e-g5pkrc39d6dudmdo3-25d6d83wt906-gppad2.mp3 Our latest is now live! I today’s episode, Nathan and Coyle talk about the Trump/Harris Presidential debate.

In today’s episode, Coyle and Nathan talk about the 2024 Democratic National Convention.

In today’s episode, Nathan and Coyle discuss whether the Electoral College can be changed and what the ramifications of such a change might be.

When I was a novice in Biblical Studies Hans Frei’s book The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative invited me to consider not only the world that gave us the Bible but…

In today’s episode, Nathan and Coyle put the 2024 Republican National Convention under the microscope.

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…