After His resurrection, Jesus called His eleven remaining disciples and gave them a mission: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and…

Perhaps no era of biblical interpretation is less appreciated than the Middle Ages. After all, weren’t the medievals at best just perpetuators of patristic readings, and at worst the most…

Download or Stream this Episode Alasdair MacIntyre’s books taught me over the years to attend to the history of our moral language.  In some places, at some times, humility will…

Download or Stream this Episode Something went haywire with American politics not long into the social-media age.  Report after report told us that America was sick and tired of the…

Download or Stream this Episode On the first terrace of Purgatory proper, the pilgrim Dante looks up and looks down and sees art everywhere, art so grand that it surpasses…

Every year in the US, more young people leave the churches in which they were raised, sometimes abandoning religious faith altogether and becoming what the pollsters call “Nones.” Even within…

Download or Stream this Episode To claim that God created all things, seen and unseen, is as uncontroversial as the historical creeds–and as controversial.  Such a claim leads readily to…

Download or Stream this Episode On April 28, 2018, theologian James Cone died, and many like me who were seminarians in the last quarter of the twentieth century knew that…

Download or Stream this Episode In the famous chapter “Rebellion” in Dostoevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov does not offer logical proof that the universe does not admit…

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Christmas Bells” and its musical adaptation, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the 1998 film “The Prince of Egypt.”

The worship landscape in contemporary Evangelical church services is a fairly bleak scene. I don’t mean that there is no music in churches; nor do I mean that worship leaders…

In the early 6th century, darkness was falling on the Rome’s Western Empire. Old Rome was waning, barbarians sat on the imperial throne, and smouldering tension with the Byzantine Eastern…

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about three Easter homilies from the fifth-century Pope Leo I.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about chapters five and six of George Lindbeck’s book “The Nature of Doctrine.”