The Christian Humanist

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The University we need... but maybe not the one we deserve.

Download or Stream this Episode In the famous chapter “Rebellion” in Dostoevsky’s great novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov does not offer logical proof that the universe does not admit…

Stream or download this episode. Visit our website. Josh and Michial discuss 1961’s 101 Dalmatians.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “Christmas Bells” and its musical adaptation, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”

Download or Stream this Episode In the eighth episode of our Ancient Asides miniseries, Coyle and Jordan talk about the early church in the Roman Empire from 150-300AD Readings from…

Alexis Neal leads Carla Ewert and Ilia Danner Grubbs in a discussion of the reception history of pop Christmas classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the 1998 film “The Prince of Egypt.”

The fourth season of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast wrapped up with Sam Mulberry and me talking about our favorite memorials, museums, meals, and masterpieces in the southern German city of Munich. In…

Stream or download this episode. Visit our website. Josh and Michial discuss seven short subjects from the 1950s: No Smoking Susie the Little Blue Coupe Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom…

Sam and I are back from our Thanksgiving break to talk through the next stop on our “World Wars in Western Europe” tour: Paris, France After trying to decide whether or…

Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks to Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about the medieval morality play Everyman.  

Knowing Glaspell’s background and the Provincetown Players Teaching the play Reading Naming and identity The importance of separate gendered knowledge We are our [sister’s] keeper: the church’s responsibility to notice…

Stream or download this episode.  Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs use the absent Michial Farmer’s questions to talk about two interviews with the late Eugene Peterson. Luci Shaw, “A Conversation…

On November 26, 2018, NASA is expected to land its newest lander, known as Mars Insight – Insight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.  The name…