The Christian Humanist

Josh and Michial talk about 2021’s Raya and the Last Dragon.

The one who saves his life will lose it.  The one who sows to the spirit will reap life.  I am the way and the truth and the life.  Life…

Knowing What is lectio divina? https://www.usccb.org/bible/national-bible-week/upload/lectio-divina.pdf What  are our experiences with this form of interpretation? How has it helped us think differently about Biblical texts or our own religious practices?…

Somethin’s brewin’ on the podcast.  I wonder what it could be?  If you’ve seen the stage musical version of “The Cotton Patch Gospel” you know what and whom we’re talking…

The book I expected to read would present all the ways in which human communities in the digital age are dealing with a decentralized authority structure, how any given woman…

Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read.  In the twenty-two years since I first read A Theology of the Old Testament…

In today’s episode, Coyle, David, and Jordan continue their discussion of the Middle Ages by looking at the Strategikon of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice. Also mentioned in today’s Episode: -John…

I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called “Heaven and Nature Swing.” It led…

Marie Hause, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Leah Flenniken discuss medieval proto-feminist Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies.

 Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous.  N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. …

Josh and Michial talk about the 53rd full-length Disney animated feature, 2019’s rather disappointing sequel Frozen II. They also rag on Captain Planet, Weezer, and internet fan culture.

In today’s episode, David, Jordan, and Coyle talk about Charlemagne and his influence on the Middle Ages. Readings mentioned in the episode include: –Einhard and Notker–From Homer to Harry Potter–The…

“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.”  I pray those words every Sunday morning at Bogart Christian Church, and I think I have a basic…

Alexis Neal, Victoria Reynolds Farmer, and Kayla Beth Moore discuss George Eliot’s classic novel. INTRODUCTION KNOWING Background information on the novel Our experiences with Middlemarch READING  Dorothea  “It Can Be…

In today’s Episode, Coyle, Jordan, and David talk about the Venerable Bede and his works, influence, and role in the history of the church in England.