The Christian Humanists respond to listener emails. [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic freedom [27:09] More holy…

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.

Michial Farmer holds court with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the children’s novel The Little Prince by Antoine Saint-Exupéry. The trio digs into the satirical and philosophical character of…

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Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about two stories by the late Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez—“A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” and “The…

General Introduction – Dissertation guilt – Listener feedback – The Christian Humanist Chess League Background to the Crusades – The difficulty of Crusades history – The build-up – The Crown…

General Introduction – Facebook official – No listener feedback—so write us! – The Christian Dilettante Podcast Our Own Experience With Chess – Michial’s great victory – David’s Duplo set –…

General Introduction – Football season begins – What’s on the blog? – An argument about Jaws Our History with Superheroes – Crib notes: Only Gilmour was way into comics –…

In my last few years of college, when I knew I was headed toward graduate school but didn’t know what the experience would be like, I found myself groping, nearly…