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There’s a lot of poetry in the Bible. Anyone who flips through its pages can see how many have that telltale jagged edge of printed verse. But it’s not only…

Introductions Why this topic? Knowing About Alta Mar: production details Brief plot summary How we watched: How did you choose to watch the series? Dubbed in English? In Spanish? In Spanish…

Stream or download this episode.  Join us as we revisit last year’s episode on Dorothy L. Sayers’s aesthetics, won’t you?

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks about Martin Scorsese’s 1976 classic Taxi Driver with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour.

Stream or download this episode. When I was in seminary, in the first year of this millennium of ours, I was quite sure I was not an evangelical: I was…

Alexis Neal, Carla Godwin, and Jessica Hardin discuss makeup, hair dye, cosmetic surgery, and other ways women alter their physical appearance.

In this episode, your three intrepid Book of Naturists held forth on the subject of Thought – in the ideas surrounding the differences between and complementary natures of Abstract and…

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer, Jordan Poss, and Coyle Neal talk about books 23 and 24 of Homer’s Iliad. Show Notes Our translations of the Iliad: Robert Fagles (1990) and Stanley…

Stream or download this book. Nathan Gilmour talks about the moon landing, and the space program in general, with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.

Stream or download this episode. Late in his posthumously-published Philosophical Investigations, in section 373, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a cryptic aphorism regarding grammar: “Grammar tells what kind of object anything is.…

Stream or download this episode. Nathan Gilmour, Jay Eldred, and Todd Pedlar talk about books 21 and 22 of Homer’s Iliad. Show Notes Our translations of the Iliad: Richmond Lattimore (1951) and Robert…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks about Gregory of Nazianzus’s first oration with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer.

Download or Stream this Episode In this week’s episode, Coyle, Michial, and Danny talk about country music in the late 1950s and early 1960s. You get a bonus bit about…

Marie Hause, Carla Godwin, and Victoria Reynolds Farmer discuss the Song of Songs. Listen here. Knowing Background on the Song of Songs, its history of interpretation, and why it’s of…

Stream or download this episode.  Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer discuss 1986’s The Great Mouse Detective with special guest David Grubbs of The Christian Humanist Podcast.