The Christian Humanist

Series Index At this point I’m not posting things before the meetings or even the day of the meetings but catching up from missed meetings.  Mea culpa.  For those just…

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour respond to a range of listener questions and comments. Our subject matter follows this schedule: [1:56] How can we conceive of the inconceivable if the…

When we try to make sense of the world, narrative is everything.  And when we tell the story of theology in late modernity, we underestimate at our peril how important…

Intros KNOWING Publication and reception of Ancillary Justice A bit on the novel’s novel approach to gender A very brief history of gendered pronouns in Feminist Theory READING Pronouns and…

In another crossover with Craft Lit, Nathan P. Gilmour and Heather Ordover interview Bryan Doerries of the Theater of War project.  Theater of War brings Athenian tragedy to the stage…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? “Ally” as a term A big moment for feminism in the zeitgeist HeforShe Reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0Dg226G2Z8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEzgu7l4NI http://feministcurrent.com/7988/how-to-be-a-male-feminist-ally/ Allies in the Bible? Passing On http://www.amazon.com/Half-Church-Recapturing-Global-Vision/dp/0310325560 http://www.christianhumanist.org/why-christian-feminists/…

I won’t rehearse the details of last Wednesday’s attacks on the office of Charlie Hebdo, a Parisian satire magazine.  Those anyone can find with a Google search.  I do write, however,…

To be saved means to be in a story where the characters need saving.  That ground-floor reality motivated a generation of theologians and Bible scholars to think of Christianity in…

Christ Actually: The Son of God for a Secular Age By James Carroll 284 pp.  Viking Penguin.  $30.00 James Carroll tells a story of two wars against the Jews, two…

[Correction notice: When Donald sent me this response, he asked that I change “Kenneth Burke” to “Edmund Burke.”  I forgot to do so initially,  but I have done so as…

“To be utterly lost in the woods is unfortunate. To be absolutely unconcerned about it is unreasonable. Yet so many people who spend weeks mastering a new video game, months…

Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church By Scot McKnight 255 pp.  Brazos Press.  $21.99. If the Kingdom is everything, the Kingdom is nothing. That’s the…

Introductions Knowing Why this episode? Definitions of sex-positivism and sex-negativism More on sex-positivism as a movement Reading : http://www.xojane.com/issues/im-a-sex-negative-feminist http://positivists.org/blog/body-and-sex-positivism Chapter Four of Christian Perspectives of Sex and Pornography Passing…

Our fall 2014 semester concludes with Danny Anderson leading Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story.

Why Higher Education Should Have a Leftist Bias by Donald Lazere 235 pp. Palgrave Macmillan.  $95.00 Political labels can be funny things.  I know I’m an odd bird in this…