Christian Humanist Profiles 174: The Monkhood of All Believers
What is a monk? The word evokes the image of a man robed and cowled, tonsured in the West, bearded in the East. It recalls the architecture of the monastery,…
Christian Humanist Profiles 119: Saint Columban and His Rule
In 590 AD, seven years before Augustine of Canterbury would venture over to Britain, St. Columban crossed the channel the other direction to Gaul. Columban was an Irish monk, a…
The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Episode #26: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Protestants
On the newest episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, Sam and I put the Reformation on hold for a moment to consider the Christianity that lies on the other side of…
Christian Humanist Profiles 60: The Story of Monasticism
For most American Evangelicals, monasticism is a closed book, little understood, and appreciated even less. Yet throughout most of Christian history, East and West, and even today, monasticism has been…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #146: Psalm 119
Nathan Gilmour chats a spell with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Psalm 119. The trio ranges from the literary form of the verse to the ways that the Psalm…