Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson kick off the network's annual Halloween crossover with a discussion of John Carpenter's seminal slasher Halloween .
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 333
Michial Farmer and David Grubbs talk about John Updike's long-ish poem "Americana," airports, and hotel rooms. Yes, Farmer spelled the name of the podcast wrong in the cover art.
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Nathan Gilmour talks to guests Carter Stepper and Katie Grubbs about the last few seasons of the science-fiction series The Expanse .
Sep 27, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Nathan Gilmour talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Dana Gioia's recent First Things essay "Christianity and Poetry."
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 330
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit .
Aug 23, 2022•56 min•Ep. 329
We're back! Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about a 1979 episode of Sears Radio Theater called, appropriately enough, "The Sabbatical." Come listen as we encounter A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH when Melville Pauley winds his way through Vienna.
Aug 09, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 328
Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller to talk about the term "deconstruction" and how its connotations shifted in the twenty-first century. Gilmour keeps drifting back to the twentieth century as Miller adn Dawson try to get him with the times.
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller in the Christian Humanist Radio Network crossover event on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, the Christianity Today podcast series. This squad digs into the philosophy of journalism and history-making, posing how and when and why questions about the project.
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Victoria Reynolds Farmer in the network's annual Halloween crossover, discussing Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Descent Into the Maelstrom."
Oct 26, 2021•57 min
In this year's season finale, Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the Grimm Brothers and their fairy tale "Brother and Sister."
May 25, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Book 3, Chapters 82-85 of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War," and the three reflect on rebellions and revolutions.
May 18, 2021•1 hr 14 min
David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas to Michial Farmer.
May 11, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Mathew Block talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 2006 Will Ferrell film "Stranger Than Fiction."
May 04, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Sixpence None the Richer's self-titled 1997 album. Yes, the one with "Kiss Me."
Apr 27, 2021•1 hr 16 min
David Grubbs dives into St. Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" to talk to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria.
Apr 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min
The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.
Apr 13, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 1 min
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about Aelfric of Eynsham's 10th-century Latin primer "The Colloquy."
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 14 min
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, "Those Winter Sundays" and "The Whipping."
Mar 02, 2021•57 min
The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally and on vinyl.
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969's "Space Oddity" and 1980's "Ashes to Ashes."
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 8 min
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson's 1943 short story "Afternoon in Linen" with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.
Jan 26, 2021•53 min
Revisit the talk Michial Farmer had with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Longfellow poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" and recordings of the poem as a Christmas song.
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 10 min
Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about three Christina Rossetti poems about Advent.
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about four paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper: Night Windows, City Roofs, New York Movie, and Room in New York.
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Revisit a conversation about offices as sites of personality and interaction.
Dec 01, 2020•1 hr 5 min
