Christian Humanist Profiles, Episode 18: Centering Marginalized Voices
As children attending Sunday School, it is easy to become enthralled with stories of important, holy people, people who, though they had otherwise ordinary jobs and problems, God seemingly hand-picked…
Book Review: “The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance”
The Third Covenant: The Transmission of Consciousness in the work of Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance By Albert J. LaChance and Rebecca LaChance Goodwin 192…
Wittgenstein Wednesdays, Section 4: Philosophical Investigations Sections 87-139
Series Index Once again I’ve waited until the day that Emmanuel College’s Wittgenstein group meets to write the latest blog post. It’s November. Give me a break. As with previous posts, numbers refer…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #149: Dead Poets Society
Nathan Gilmour converses with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Dead Poets Society, the second of our Robin Williams trilogy. The trio takes on the strange, truncated readings of poetry…
Christian Humanist Profiles 17: Building a Better Teacher
Democracy, as a way of life, requires that the citizens of the democracy share an education in common, a set of stories and aptitudes and even experiences from which we…
Book of Nature, Episode 2: Science vs. Scientism
Episode 2: Science vs. Scientism In the second episode, Todd Pedlar hosts a discussion of an important distinction for scientists of any kind, let alone Christians who are active in…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #148: The Fisher King
Mea Culpa: In this episode, I (Michial) say that Amanda Plummer is British. In fact, she is the daughter of Christopher Plummer and is therefore American/Canadian. I still hate her…
Christian Humanist Profiles 16: Fairy-Tale Levity
Victorian preacher and author George MacDonald has, especially among Christian readers, a serious reputation. Both for his seriously meditative fantasy novels, beloved of C.S. Lewis and others, and his seriously…
My Colleague J.R.R. Tolkien: A Review of Tolkien’s Beowulf Translation
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien 425 pp. Houghton MIfflin Harcourt. $28.00 There’s a special kind of joy that fills the air when a…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #147: H.P. Lovecraft
David Grubbs gets spooky with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour as the trio discusses the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Conversations range from literary influence to biological racism, with some…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode 13: Christian Women and Leaning In
Knowing A quick bio of Sheryl Sandberg The birth and spread of the Lean In brand Media responses Reading Our experiences of women in authority (with bonus introduction to our…
Wittgenstein Wednesdays, Section 3: Philosophical Investigations Sections 53-86
Series Index Emmanuel College’s Wittgenstein group meets today, which means I’m behind on getting the latest blog post up here. So it goes. As with previous posts, numbers refer to section numbers,…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #146.1: Listener Feedback
David and Nathan answer your listener emails today while Michial assesses outcomes for his college. [04:11] Let your sins be strong? [10:21] Robert Louis Stevenson [13:41] Some episode suggestions from…
God’s Not Dead: Some Untimely Thoughts
It’s a pity to waste a sloppy story. That’s what I couldn’t stop thinking after finishing up God’s Not Dead, a recent film that’s made some waves among Christians on…