The Christian Humanist

One of the persistent heroes of philosophically minded folks is Socrates, the godfatherof question-askers, the Athenian philosopher, the drinker of hemlock. Although the Platonic dialogues never present him as entirely averse…

As I said on our “God Is Dead?” podcast episode, I encountered Nietzsche via his famous sound-bite as a high school student.  I had no idea that his literary output…

Doing Theology in the 21st Century. or why Aquinas is a footnote Bo Sanders is a friend of The Christian Humanist and a friend of mine, and if he’s ever…

When I saw that the talking heads featured in the DVD series were Marcus Borg and Brian McLaren and Diana Butler-Bass and Matthew Fox, I already had a good idea…

General Introduction – How cold is it? – Michial is froggy – Which one of you is the butler? – A big load of listener feedback – Our devoted lovers…

General Introduction – Nathan reports from Orlando – Finals week – Who suggested this episode? Positing the Essay – Orwell and Huxley – Early and late career – Orwell’s unbelievable…

Perhaps no book in the Hebrew Bible is more disturbing, befuddling, and thought-provoking than The Book of Job. Believers and nonbelievers alike have wrestled like the ideas and emotions put…

A correction   KNOWING With progress comes backlash Faludi, Susan. Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women. New York: Crown, 1991. Print. Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of…

General Introduction – Where’s Nathan? – Recording at night – Listener feedback – On lost causes – A question for Nathan to answer later Situating Munro – Her life and…

General Introduction – A bunch of listener feedback – Nathan defends the dark ages – Is country music rural? – More on metamodernism – Signifying rappers with David Foster Wallace…

General Introduction    – St. Bonaduce – Listener feedback – Our new sponsor: Comcast Cable! Eliciting Personal Reactions – The social place of the horror film – Sequels ad nauseam…

  Knowing When was the Third Wave? Why was the Third Wave? Pop culture and “The personal is political.” Reading http://www.girlstothefront.com/ Laurie was a punk rocker: anger, class consciousness, and…

General Introduction – Listener feedback – We talk about Mike Tyson for awhile What Is Postmodernism? – Modernism without the anxiety – Incredulity toward metanarratives – Playfulness and literary production…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy I’m going to appropriate and extend Alasdair MacIntyre’s notion of a tradition here and posit that to be part of the tradition…

General Introduction – Wrapped up in wires – How tall are we? – Listener feedback The Descent to the Underworld – Opening the third act – Katabasis – A gender-reversed…