The Christian Humanist

Isaiah 6:1-8 and Psalm 29  • Romans 8:12-17  • John 3:1-17 I’ve been taught, in very clear terms, not to read Isaiah 6 as a passage about the Trinity. I’ve been taught, in very clear terms,…

Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another.  But etymological roots don’t go…

What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s…

 If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for different reasons, some writers in Biblical…

History as a practice examines the contingent.  Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things…

Listen here Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Alexis Neal discuss the healing of the woman in the crowd in Mark 5. Knowing Our experiences with this story Description of…

The Mystery Gang rides again! Alexis Neal, Katie Grubbs, and Laurie Norris talk about the classic Robert Altman film Gosford Park. Introduction Knowing  Summary and background info on Gosford Park Personal…

What does Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution say, and what does it mean for the 2024 election? Listen in as Coyle and Nathan ask those and…

Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus surveys on his way to the…

In today’s Episode, a potential new direction is explored by the City of Man podcast, beginning with a look at polarization in contemporary America.

You have heard that it is said: love your neighbor and hate your enemy.  Translations might differ, but what follows comes across well in most translations: Jesus enjoins those hearing…

Listen in as Christina Bieber Lake, Laurie Norris, and Marie Hause discuss one of our favorite characters of all time, Dana Scully of the X-files. Knowing We discuss how we…

In today’s episode, Coyle talks to attorney Matthew Martens about his new book Reforming Criminal Justice: A Christian Proposal and what changes should be under consideration for the American justice system.

Theology and literature have always seemed a natural pair to me.  In fact, I’ve written a Master’s Thesis examining Ezekiel with the help of William Blake; another digging into Christology…

The stereotype, whether we want to dismantle it or acknowledge it, holds that those who teach college English begin a quest in graduate school to be rid of teaching writing.…