David Grubbs chats with Nathan Gilmour about the hymn of Caedmon, a poem from the Old English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.

What does it look like to be a disciple of Christ? Models abound, but two perennial rivals are the active life and the contemplative life—the Martha and the Mary—or, as…

Cultural critics of a certain persuasion will sometimes suggest that the Bible is a force to conserve what is most stable in human society, to call us back from our…

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: A Protestant View of the Cosmic Drama By Jerry L. Walls 219 pp. Brazos Press. $19.99 Written theology, in my own experience with the faith, serves…

From the lips of many a professor at many a Christian college the words “integration of faith and learning” sound as natural as “liberal arts” or “critical thinking.”  Yet, as…

In episode 4, it is a period of civil war.  Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base… wait, wrong franchise! Ahem, in episode 4, Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with…

The UNKingdom of God: Embracing the Subversive Power of Repentance by Mark Van Steenwyk 184 pp. Intervarsity Press. $16.00. The New Testament deals with empire at every turn, whether the…

A crushed rose. An unwrapped, dirt-encrusted lollipop. Something that has lost its value: goods that have been damaged beyond repair. We’ve all heard these sorts of descriptions applied to people,…

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…

I Believe in One God By Pope Benedict XVI 157 pp. St. Pauls. $14.95 Believe it or not (and if you know me at all, you’ll believe it), I did…

When we try to make sense of the world, narrative is everything.  And when we tell the story of theology in late modernity, we underestimate at our peril how important…

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 saved means to be in a story where the characters need saving.  That ground-floor reality motivated a generation of theologians and Bible scholars to think of Christianity in…

Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp.  Viking Penguin.  $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…

“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…