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.
Christian Humanist Profiles 252: Cursing with God
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…
Christian Feminist Podcast #191: Scully!
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…
City of Man, Episode 175: Matthew Martens on Reforming Criminal Justice
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.
Christian Humanist Profiles 251: The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization
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…
Christian Humanist Profiles 250: Composition as Conversation
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.…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, episode #190: Cosplay!
Laurie Norris and Jay Eldred have an lively conversation about what cosplay means to them and how dressing up as someone else helped them both discover who they are. Knowing…