The Christian Humanist

A note: You may notice a marked difference in tone between the General Introduction and the rest of the episode. This is because they were recorded on two different days.…

General Introduction – Getting on up there – In almost-Spring Break – Grubbsy’s back! – Listener feedback – Terence Malick – Where to start with Updike – Christian high schools…

General Introduction – Positively doctoral – The informality of Minnesotans Situating “Neighbour Rosicky” – Idealization of immigrant life and tradition – The story’s quaintness – Cather’s critical reputation – The…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 9 March 2014 (First Sunday of Lent, Year A) Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7  • Psalm 32  • Romans 5:12-19  • Matthew 4:1-11 In N.T. Wright’s The New Testament and…

Have I mentioned lately that I really enjoy my job?  As James K.A. Smith has recently noted on Twitter, his job (mine is very similar) is such that he receives…

Professing Literature: An Institutional History by Gerald Graff Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education by Edward Farley I’m not sure how other folks entered into self-awareness of their…

General Introduction – Snow introduction – Listener feedback – Adjuncts and online education – Women and the Great American Novel Our Experience – Hitchcock and scary movies – Good eeeeeevening…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 2 March 2014 (Transfiguration Sunday, Year A) Exodus 24:12-18  • Psalm 2 or Psalm 99  • 2 Peter 1:16-21  • Matthew 17:1-9 Obviously we should celebrate the Resurrection every year with a Sunday…

Opining about House of Cards is a cottage industry of sorts these days, so I must endeavor here to say something you good folks couldn’t read elsewhere.  So I advance this hunch:…

General Introduction – Snowpocalypse, Round Two – Sprezzatura, sprezzatura – Listener feedback – American folk The Postmodern Condition – The age of networked computers – Incredulity toward metanarratives – Speculation…

Note: This is our first transcontinental podcast, and there’s some noise and feedback we couldn’t get rid of. Thanks for sticking with us! Introductions Congratulations Shelah and Shawn! A little…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 23 February 2014 (7th Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A) Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18  • Psalm 119:33-40  • 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23  • Matthew 5:38-48 This will be another Sunday where I…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – Tarantino and meaning – Harper Lee, the great American novelist? – More fake papers for us – The mascot of the CHU – The…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 16 February 2014 (Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A) Deuteronomy 30:15-20 or Sirach 15:15-20  • Psalm 119:1-8  • 1 Corinthians 3:1-9  • Matthew 5:21-37 I enjoy preaching the Old Testament.  I’ve certainly…

Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge I honestly don’t know how often I had heard the term “postmodern” before 1996, but it was on a visit back…