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The Christian Humanist Podcast

Michial Farmerwww.christianhumanist.org
Three Christians, teachers, and intellectuals gather digitally to hold forth on literature, theology, philosophy, and other things human beings do well. Taking the question at hand utterly seriously and ourselves not at all, the Christian Humanists attempt to record weekly during the school year and take on some interesting questions. Our website, should you wish to visit us, is http://www.christianhumanist.org, and our email is thechristianhumanist@gmail.com.
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Episodes

Episode 215: Holy Sonnets

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about John Donne's Holy Sonnets.

Apr 18, 201752 min

Episode 214: The Grape Prophet

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about L.S. Underground's brief rock opera "The Grape Prophet."

Mar 28, 20171 hr 12 min

Episode 213: Dungeons and Dragons

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Dungeons and Dragons and the changing place of roleplaying games in the life of the Christian Humanist.

Mar 21, 20171 hr 8 min

Episode 212: The Didache

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the first-century Christian text the Didache, or the Teachings of the Twelve Apostles for the Nations.

Mar 14, 20171 hr 5 min

Episode 211: The Martian Chronicles

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Ray Bradbury's science-fiction anthology "The Martian Chronicles" and the grand human questions that arise when human beings run up against Martians of various sorts.

Feb 28, 20171 hr 1 min

Episode 210: The Mark of the Beast

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the number six hundred and sixty and six (depending on your manuscript tradition, it could be six hundred and ten and six), its antecedents, and its afterlife.

Feb 21, 20171 hr 5 min

Episode 209: Riddles

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about riddles from the ancient world all the way up to the As-Seen-on-TV television commercial.

Feb 14, 201750 min

Episode 208.01: Salvation and A-Holes at Theology Beer Camp

Adam Clark, theology professor from Xavier University, gives a talk to Theology Beer Camp on varieties of salvation and the possibility of a desire-forming, active model of Christian salvation. Then Nathan Gilmour interviews Christian Piatt, podcaster and author; and Adam Clark at the next day of Theology Beer Camp.

Feb 12, 20171 hr 13 min

Episode 208: Recitatif

Michial Farmer, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour talk about Toni Morrison's lone short story "Recitatif."

Feb 07, 20171 hr

Episode 206.01: Heaven and Hell with The Story of God

Nathan Gilmour interviews James Younger, executive producer of National Geographic's The Story of God, and Homebrewed Christianity's Barry Taylor about The Story of God's recent episode on Heaven and Hell.

Jan 29, 201734 min

Episode 206: Handel's Messiah

David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Nathan Gilmour talk about Handel's grand oratorio "Messiah."

Dec 20, 20161 hr 18 min

Episode 205: Grading

Michial Farmer, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour talk about that perennial occupation of academics, grading.

Dec 13, 20161 hr 20 min

Episode 202: Highway 61 Revisited

Michial Farmer takes David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour on a track-by-track journey down Bob Dylan's "Highway 61" in honor of his Nobel prize in literature.

Nov 22, 20161 hr 20 min

Episode 201: In Praise of Folly

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Desiderius Erasmus's famous "In Praise of Folly."

Nov 08, 20161 hr 9 min

Episode 200: The Twilight Zone

Michial Farmer talks with guest panelists Christina Bieber Lake and Katie Grubbs about the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone."

Nov 01, 20161 hr 1 min

Episode 199: Museums

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about museums, what museums are their favorites to visit, and the place of museums in a world of Renaissance veneration and national pride.

Oct 25, 20161 hr 5 min

Episode 198: In the Penal Colony

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony."

Oct 11, 201657 min

Episode 197: Rocky

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1976 movie Rocky.

Oct 04, 20161 hr 6 min

Episode 196: The Seminar

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the classroom event that we call the seminar, its historical antecedents, and the benefits and dangers of teaching that way.

Sep 27, 20161 hr 12 min

Episode 195: The Watchmen

Michial Farmer chats with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Alan Jacobs's recent essay in Harper's, "The Watchmen," and the disappearance of the Christian public intellectual as a national figure.

Sep 20, 20161 hr 26 min

Episode 194: The Lecture

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the university lecture, some recent criticisms of the lecture, and some even more recent counter-revolutionary defenses of the lecture.

Sep 13, 20161 hr 14 min

Episode 193: Jurassic Park

David Grubbs chats with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the 1994 film "Jurassic Park."

Sep 06, 20161 hr 14 min
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