Intros Listener Mail Knowing Quick bio of Amy Poehler Quick bio Of Tina Fey Highlights of their shared careers Reading Our connections to Fey and Poehler Leslie Knope v. Liz…

Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour respond to a range of listener questions and comments. Our subject matter follows this schedule: [1:56] How can we conceive of the inconceivable if the…

Intros KNOWING Publication and reception of Ancillary Justice A bit on the novel’s novel approach to gender A very brief history of gendered pronouns in Feminist Theory READING Pronouns and…

In another crossover with Craft Lit, Nathan P. Gilmour and Heather Ordover interview Bryan Doerries of the Theater of War project.  Theater of War brings Athenian tragedy to the stage…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? “Ally” as a term A big moment for feminism in the zeitgeist HeforShe Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEzgu7l4NI http://feministcurrent.com/7988/how-to-be-a-male-feminist-ally/ Allies in the Bible? Passing On http://www.amazon.com/Half-Church-Recapturing-Global-Vision/dp/0310325560 http://www.christianhumanist.org/why-christian-feminists/…

“To be utterly lost in the woods is unfortunate. To be absolutely unconcerned about it is unreasonable. Yet so many people who spend weeks mastering a new video game, months…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? Definitions of sex-positivism and sex-negativism More on sex-positivism as a movement Reading : http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-a-sex-negative-feminist http://positivists.org/blog/body-and-sex-positivism Chapter Four of Christian Perspectives of Sex and Pornography Passing…

Our fall 2014 semester concludes with Danny Anderson leading Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story.

Intros Listener E-mails Knowing A short biography of Barbara Brown Taylor A summary of Learning to Walk in the Dark Reading Treasures of Darkness: Abandoning “ solar spirituality” Darkness and…

Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about Immanuel Kant’s 1784 essay “What Is Enlightenment?”

Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most important texts in the history of sociology, and people have been citing it with various…

Nathan Gilmour converses with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Dead Poets Society, the second of our Robin Williams trilogy. The trio takes on the strange, truncated readings of poetry…

Democracy, as a way of life, requires that the citizens of the democracy share an education in common, a set of stories and aptitudes and even experiences from which we…

Episode 2: Science vs. Scientism In the second episode, Todd Pedlar hosts a discussion of an important distinction for scientists of any kind, let alone Christians who are active in…