The Christian Humanist

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Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

Need a big theological hug? Listen in as Christina Bieber Lake, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Katie Grubbs talk about why you absolutely must read Revelations of Divine Love this year.…

Stream or download this episode.Visit our website. Josh and Michial discuss Disney’s 38th full-length animated feature, Fantasia 2000.

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, “Those Winter Sundays” and “The Whipping.”

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…

Ilia Danner Grubbs, Laurie Norris, and Sara Klooster discuss feminism, racism, and more in the Netflix miniseries The Queen’s Gambit INTRODUCTIONS SEGMENT 1: KNOWING Content warning, this show does portray…

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.”

Stream or download this episode. In today’s episode, Coyle talks to Dr. Carl Trueman of Grove City College about his new book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self.

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. In today’s episode, Coyle, Michial, and Danny talk about the Dixie Chicks scandal of the early 2000s (before they were just “the Chicks”) and the…