Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in the last of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s For Common Things.

David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in the first of three discussions of Jedediah Purdy’s 1999 book For Common Things.

With all due respect to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Garrison Keillor, the Twin Cities’ most notable literary export is probably Charles M. Schulz, the creator of the beloved comic strip…

Download or Stream this Episode Michial Farmer leads Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs in a discussion of the Hebrew patriarch Joseph.

Download or Stream this Episode As the world around us becomes increasingly polluted, as its natural resources become increasingly depleted, as climate change continues to progress, largely unabated, scientists warn…

Nathan Gilmour talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the American Pastime.

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour answer your queries and insults. [2:50- 6:20] Calculus, engineers, and mathematical education [6:20 – 11:40] Oldies and Neo-Calvinism/Emergent [11:40- 16:50] Medieval thinking and interactive sites…

The Christian Humanists answer listener emails. [02:07-05:50] Speaking about things Greek [05:50-13:30] The Christian Humanist Journal [13:30-16:48] A Defense of a Sequel [16:49-22:25] Christian Existentialism [22:27-26:03] Greetings from Trinity Western…

Download or Stream this Episode David Grubbs leads Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Dorothy L. Sayers’s “The Lost Tools of Learning.”

What does it mean to have a good death? Many in our time use technology in an attempt to stave off aging or dying, or to conceal the effects of…

Bearing shame and scoffing rude, in my place condemned he stood, sealed my pardon with his blood: Hallelujah, what a Savior! These lines from P. P. Bliss’s classic hymn are…

What does it look like to be a disciple of Christ? Models abound, but two perennial rivals are the active life and the contemplative life—the Martha and the Mary—or, as…

In episode 4, it is a period of civil war.  Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base… wait, wrong franchise! Ahem, in episode 4, Dan Dawson hosts a discussion with…

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.

Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is one of the most important texts in the history of sociology, and people have been citing it with various…