The Christian Humanist

The Middle Ages By Johannes Fried (trans. Peter Lewis) 632 pp. Harvard University Press. $35.00 Johannes Fried saves the programmatic aim of his book for the last chapter, but I’ll begin…

Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Rodney Clapp’s 1996 article “Why the Devil Takes Visa.”

In his introduction to George Macdonald’s Phantastes, C.S. Lewis credits the novel with baptizing his imagination, giving him a taste for the good and the numinous that led, ultimately, to…

introductions: guest panelists Dianna Anderson and Nate Craddock four texts: Athanasius, De Incarnatione Susan Bordo, excerpt from Unbearable Weight in Writing on the Body, ed. Katie Conboy, Nadia Medina, and…

Having started our series with one historical theologian who helped write Reclaiming Pietism: Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition, it only makes sense that we continue the theme this week, when we’re joined…

Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the 1991 Daniel Amos album  Kalhoun.

Nathan Gilmour sits down with Tripp Fuller to explore some of the theological and artistic fun that one can have with the Netflix series House of Cards.  The conversation ranges from…

Roger Olson, historical theologian extraordinaire and professor at Baylor’s Truett Seminary, is our guest on the first full episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast. Join our conversation as it turns to…

David Grubbs leads a discussion with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Helmut Thielicke’s 1959 treatise A Little Exercise for Young Theologians. Michial’s joke

What exactly is a Christian scholar? Need one’s work in the academy be explicitly devoted to some distinctively “Christian” end if one is to be considered a Christian scholar? In…

This week: a sneak preview of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, debuting April 16th! Normally, these podcasts will be 35-45 minute conversations — starting next week with theologian Roger Olson — but Episode 0 is a…

And now for something completely different…

The good news of Jesus, Messiah, Son of God.  Thus begins the gospel according to Mark, and the notion of gospel, proclamation, announcement has been at the core of Christian…

Introductions A listener e-mail Knowing Susanna’s and her father Her marriage Her educational and religious methods Reading Susanna the writer Susanna the mother Susanna the preacher Passing On http://daringtolivefully.com/journal-prompts https://archive.org/details/seriousproposalt00aste…

Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the fool in theology, literature, and culture.