The Christian Humanist

There are some things everyone knows about Protestants. They hate tradition. They’re suspicious of any doctrine or practice that can’t be anchored to a verse. They’re fractious and factious, each…

David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour talk for a spell about the Old English poem “The Dream of the Rood,” digging into its particular extant texts and examining the strange and…

Download or Stream this Episode There are Christian books that try to engage philosophical learning in a strong, rigorous manner, and there are Christian books written for a general audience.…

Nathan Gilmour moderates a conversation with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs on three letter exchanges between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

The epistle of Jude exhorts the faithful to contend for a faith that’s handed down, yet delivered once and for all.  In our own moment, tensions arise between Scripture’s testimony…

Intros: Welcome, Alexis! A listener e-mail Knowing Our personal women’s Bible study experiences Gendered ways of reading the Bible: standpoint epistemology and gender-neutral language Common structures and major players on…

Responding to our recent episode on Stanley Hauerwas’s essay “Honor in the University,” my former student Alex Genetti posed a fun question about the essay and the practice of teaching. …

David Grubbs chats with Nathan Gilmour about the hymn of Caedmon, a poem from the Old English version of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.

What does it look like to be a disciple of Christ? Models abound, but two perennial rivals are the active life and the contemplative life—the Martha and the Mary—or, as…

Series Index Without a doubt rules do something when we undertake disciplined thought.  But when we try to articulate universal claims about rules, they fall flat.  Wittgenstein asks us to…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour talk about banned books and the history of censorship.

Cultural critics of a certain persuasion will sometimes suggest that the Bible is a force to conserve what is most stable in human society, to call us back from our…

Knowing Catcalling and the public body: defining terms Reactions to catcalling Countermovements Reading http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/SH-victorian-london.pdf Our own catcalling/street-harassment experiences Passing On http://www.org/about/what-is-street-harassment/ http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/02/02/watch-this-gutsy-girl-humiliated_n_6593590.html?utm_hp_ref=india http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/street-harassment-vocativ-video_n_5637529.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/cnn-catcalling-video-steve-santagati_n_html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialectic_of_Sex

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: A Protestant View of the Cosmic Drama By Jerry L. Walls 219 pp. Brazos Press. $19.99 Written theology, in my own experience with the faith, serves…

Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of Stanley Hauerwas’s cranky 1991 speech “Honor in the University.” Download episodes of The Christian Humanist Podcast