Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #195: The Legacy of Cathy Guisewite
Featuring Katie Grubbs, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Sarah Thomas -Introductions -Why discuss Cathy? -What’s your past experience with comics in general and with Cathy in particular? When did you first…
Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Sola Scriptura
Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation. We can learn a fair…
Lectionary Reflection for 9 June 2024 (Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year B)
1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15) and Psalm 138 • Genesis 3:8-15 and Psalm 130 • 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 • Mark 3:20-35 1 Samuel 8 is one of those passages (there are several) that brings to my attention, every time…
City of Man Episode 178: Primaries
In today’s episode, Nathan and Coyle talk about what primaries are and the possible consequences to Presidential elections of abandoning them.
Lectionary Reflection for 2 June 2024 (Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year B)
1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20) and Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 • Deuteronomy 5:12-15 and Psalm 81:1-10 • 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 • Mark 2:23-3:6 The first thing that draws my attention in 1 Samuel 3 is the brief, passing comment that opens up…
Lectionary Reflection for 26 May 2024 (Trinity Sunday, Year B)
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,…
Christian Humanist Profiles 257: Scripture and Literature
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…
Christian Humanist Profiles 256: The Liberating Arts
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…
Christian Humanist Profiles 255: Jesus Among the Gods
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…
Christian Humanist Profiles 254: A Darkly Radiant Vision
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…
Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode 193: Mark 5: The Story of the Woman in the Crowd
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…
Christian Feminist #192: Gosford Park
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…
City of Man, Episode 177: Section 3 and Ballot Access
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…
Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Assyria, The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire
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…
City of Man, Episode 176: Polarization
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.