Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony.”

Download or Stream this Episode In this pair of episodes, Ed Coyle interview two Christians who are voting in very different ways. In the Episode 17, we speak with Nick Rodriguez,…

Download or Stream this Episode Consider, friends, the final days of Socrates as Plato relates them in the Crito.  He refuses to flee Athens precisely because any protest he could…

Download or Stream this Episode In this episode, Ed and Coyle discuss, not the current presidential election, but rather the office of the presidency itself, the nature of the powers…

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about seminar-style classrooms. The Art of the Follow-Up Question

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of the academic lecture–an endangered species? Lecture Me. Really. Should Colleges Really Eliminate the College Lecture?

Download or Stream this Episode In this Episode, Coyle and Ed interview Thabiti Anyabwile, the pastor of Anacostia River Church in Washington, DC, council member and blogger at The Gospel Coalition,…

Download or Stream this Episode In an episode from beyond the universe, Danny is joined by Carter Stepper for a stellar discussion about science fiction and its role in social…

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Steven Spielberg’s 1993 movie Jurassic Park.

Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s six “terrible sonnets.”

Download or Stream this Episode This episode continues Sectarian Review’s discussion of historical memory, the value of forgetting, and what to do about Confederate flags. Part II Protesting Building names…

Download or Stream this Episode In today’s episode, Ed and Coyle discuss the “Benedict Option,” Rod Dreher’s much-discussed call for Christians to “withdraw from the mainstream, for the sake of…

Science fiction is driven, not by rockets or lasers or robots, but by wonder. The vastness of space, the mystery of the shattered atom, the possibilities of technology—all push the…

Host’s Note: Please forgive the uneven recording quality of this episode.  Nathan Gilmour was supposed to make a backup copy of the audio in case these sorts of things happened,…

Download or Stream this Episode Ontic Ethics at Lexington Books What does it mean to exist as a human being?  Are some people more human than others by virtue of their…