The Christian Humanist

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.

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…