The Christian Humanist

Stream or download this episode. Flannery O’Connor, as our listeners surely know, is one of the most popular and enduring American authors of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that her…

Stream or download this episode In our current political moment, much of the broader secular world uses the word “Evangelical” as a shortcut to encompass a number of other identifiers–white,…

Stream or download this episode. Nathan Gilmour talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1999 film The Matrix.

Introductions KNOWING: Background Marie Kondo & her method Personal experiences with minimalism & KonMari READING: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up; Tidying Up with Marie Kondo (Netflix) Christianity & KonMari…

Stream or download this episode. Visit our website. Josh and Michial talk about Disney’s twentieth full-length animated feature. It’s called . . . The Aristocats!

Stream or download this episode. Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the concept of the flâneur. We read four pieces: Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Man of the…

Download or Stream this Episode On the first terrace of Purgatory proper, the pilgrim Dante looks up and looks down and sees art everywhere, art so grand that it surpasses…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour chat about the Stoic Epictetus’s short Enchiridion, whilst Michial Farmer gallivants about England. The Enchiridion of Epictetus

Every year in the US, more young people leave the churches in which they were raised, sometimes abandoning religious faith altogether and becoming what the pollsters call “Nones.” Even within…

Ripley Episode: Knowing:   Plot Overview for both movies  Casting, production, reception  Favorite Scenes    Reading: What makes Ripley different than a male protagonist in the same role? If you…

Monastic rules are more than just rules. They are ordered ways of living, weaving the mundane and the heavenly, making worship their work and work their worship. None has been…

In this latest episode of Book of Nature (Recorded in mid-December, 2018) the Book of Nature trio discuss Comets, the “dirty snowballs” that are our periodically-visiting Solar System Neighbors.  Among…

Stream or download this episode. Nathan Gilmour talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Richard M. Weaver’s 1965 essay “Education and the Individual.”

The Bible is replete with agricultural and culinary metaphors and parables—subjects familiar to the first hearers in an agricultural society, but which may seem more foreign to us. Today on…

Katie Grubbs, Jay Eldred, and Ilia Danner Grubbs celebrate Episode 100 with a discussion of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel, Monstrous Regiment. -Welcome -Introductions -Why we are doing this book for…