Christian Humanist Profiles 116: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing
Augustine called the Sermon on the Mount “a perfect standard of the Christian life.” John Calvin said it “collect[ed] into one place the leading points of the doctrine of Christ,…
Book of Nature, Ep. 20: The Conflict Hypothesis
Your Book of Nature hosts are back! I (Todd Pedlar) deeply apologize for our lack of recordings over the past months – we are slowly uploading a few episodes we…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode # 66: Listening to Truth’s Table
Knowing Intros Announcement: CHP at Dordt conference Thanks to new Facebook fans and Becky for the episode suggestion Why we’re doing this episode Reading Atlantic article on Truth’s Table Gender…
Infinite Jesters, Part 3
WARNING: THIS BLOG POST WILL SPOIL WITH IMPUNITY FROM PAGE 211 IN THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION UP TO THE 8 NOVEMBER MARK ON PAGE 321 IN THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION.…
Review of “A Reader’s Guide to the Major Writings of Jonathan Edwards” by Nathan A. Finn and Jeremy M. Kimble (eds)
“I resonate with the lament of Os Guinness and David Wells that evangelicalism today is basking briefly in the sunlight of hollow success. Evangelical industries of television and radio and…
Christian Humanist Profiles 115: Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction
Download or Stream this Episode Immanuel Kant famously distinguished between things, existing as they are, impervious to our mental probings, and objects, those pieces of our world that only come…
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Michael Knott
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Michael Knott WHO IS HE? Well, he’s the lead singer of Lifesavers Underground, for one–but also of Lifesavers, Lifesavors, the Aunt Bettys, Cush (for…
Christian Humanist Profiles 114: The Church, Authority, and Foucault
Download or Stream this Episode Those who recognize the name Michel Foucault might think of him as the strange heir to the legacies of Marx and Nietzsche, a thinker who…
City of Man, Episode 44: 9/11–Some Remembrances
Download or Stream this Episode In today’s episode, Coyle talks with several guests about their experiences and memories of 9/11. They include Ethan Reedy, who works in information technology for…
Before They Were Live, Episode 3: Fantasia
Josh Altmanshofer and Michial Farmer talk about Walt Disney’s third feature film, 1940’s Fantasia. Download or stream this episode. Visit our website.
Episode 43: Wilsey on de Tocqueville
Download or Stream this Episode In this episode Coyle interviews John Wilsey, Professor of Church History at Southern Seminary, and the William Simon Visiting Fellow of Public Life at Princeton.…
Episode 42: Global Warming
Download or Stream this Episode In today’s episode, Coyle and Ed talk about global warning and climate change–what causes it, how much CO2 are we producing, coal plant closures, and…
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Vigilantes of Love
A Primer on Christian Alternative Rock: Vigilantes of Love WHO ARE THEY? Like The Violet Burning, they are essentially one person: in this case, singer/songwriter/rhythm guitarist Bill Mallonee (MAL-uh-nee,…
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 112: The Triumph of Empire
Download or stream this episode “In the early part of the 20th century, in Decline of the West Oswald Spengler suggested that like all organic creatures, nations progress through a…
Review of “The Vanishing American Adult” by Senator Ben Sasse
That the American people are increasingly petulant and immature is so common an observation that it is very nearly a tired one at this point. Fortunately, Senator Ben Sasse has…