In today’s episode, Jonathan Leeman gives us an introduction to the relationship between church and state. This talk was co-sponsored by the Institute on Religion and Democracy.

Philoctetes is not the best-known Sophocles tragedy, but its questions stick with me.  When the title character insists on his dignity as a man of war, he runs afoul of…

What’s on the table when we claim that a newly-discovered text came from a Biblical author?  To answer that question might take an investigation that spans the Roman Empire, desert…

The Mystery Gang is back! Alexis Neal, Laurie Norris, and Katie Grubbs discuss the HBO adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith’s bestselling mystery series. Introduction Knowing  Summary and background info on…

Tell me where you spend your Sunday mornings, and then where your grandmother spent her Sunday mornings, and I’ll venture a guess at what you think Christian art looks like. …

In today’s episode, Coyle bungles an overview of The Saga of Volsungs. Fortunately, Jordan is there to straighten things out as the discussion of politics in the Middle Ages continues.…

Knowing Introductions First impressions Background on Other Feminisms and Leah Sargeant Reading How is the newsletter structured? What sort of community and what sort of thought does that structure encourage?…

“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.”  When I first read those words from St. Paul, they inoculated me against certain…

The one who saves his life will lose it.  The one who sows to the spirit will reap life.  I am the way and the truth and the life.  Life…

Somethin’s brewin’ on the podcast.  I wonder what it could be?  If you’ve seen the stage musical version of “The Cotton Patch Gospel” you know what and whom we’re talking…

The book I expected to read would present all the ways in which human communities in the digital age are dealing with a decentralized authority structure, how any given woman…

Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read.  In the twenty-two years since I first read A Theology of the Old Testament…

In today’s episode, Coyle, David, and Jordan continue their discussion of the Middle Ages by looking at the Strategikon of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice. Also mentioned in today’s Episode: -John…

I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called “Heaven and Nature Swing.” It led…

 Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous.  N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. …