Christian Humanist Profiles 211: When Did Eve Sin?
In Adam’s fall, we sinned all! So declares the New England Primer. Yet its woodcut for that couplet shows the serpent offering the forbidden fruit to Eve, not Adam. What…
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In Adam’s fall, we sinned all! So declares the New England Primer. Yet its woodcut for that couplet shows the serpent offering the forbidden fruit to Eve, not Adam. What…
Stream or download this episode. The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally…
Stream or download this episode. Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.
Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969’s “Space Oddity” and 1980’s “Ashes to Ashes.”
Knowing Our experiences with the novel Neil Postman on why the novel is applicable to our lives Some historical background: Modernism, technology, governing social narratives, and bioethics Reading How this…
Stream or download this episode.Visit our website. Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about 1990’s Duck Tales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp.
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.
Stream or download this episode. The poet Charles Hughes’s first collection of poems, 2014’s Cave Art, wasn’t published until he was in his sixties, after more than three decades working…
Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson’s 1943 short story “Afternoon in Linen” with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Coyle Neal, Jordan Poss, and Jay Eldred discuss books 22, 23, and 24 of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald…
Stream or download this episode. Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Jordan Poss, and Christina Bieber Lake discuss Books 19, 20, and 21 of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fagles…
In this all-recommendations episode, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, Kim Feldman, and Carla Godwin discuss the things they read, watched, listened to, and thought about that made 2020 a little less of…
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about books seventeen and eighteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Samuel Butler (1898), Robert Fagles…
Stream or download this episode. Jay Eldred, Jordan Poss, and Michial Farmer discuss books fifteen and sixteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Robert Fitzgerald (1961), Robert Fagles…
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about books twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of Homer’s Odyssey. SHOW NOTES Our translations of Homer: Samuel Butler (1898), Robert…