Episode 215: Holy Sonnets
David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about John Donne's Holy Sonnets.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about John Donne's Holy Sonnets.
Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about L.S. Underground's brief rock opera "The Grape Prophet."
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.
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.
In the final Theology Beer Camp special, John Cobb talks education and process theology. Then Nathan Gilmour talks with John Cobb. Then Tripp Fuller talks about Nathan Gilmour. Then Nathan Gilmour talks back.
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.
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.
Hosts from Crackers and Grape Juice, Patheological, Newsworthy with Norsworthy, and The Christian Humanist get together with Eric Hall to talk about formative Christian practices in the age of Trump.
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.
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.
Michial Farmer, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour talk about Toni Morrison's lone short story "Recitatif."
Nathan Gilmour talks with Jeffrey Carter, Todd Littleton, and Eric Hall about Christian ethics and the protest culture a few blocks away from Theology Beer Camp.
David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Nathan Gilmour talk about John Locke's letter "On Toleration."
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.
David Grubbs, Michial Farmer, and Nathan Gilmour talk about Handel's grand oratorio "Messiah."
Michial Farmer, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour talk about that perennial occupation of academics, grading.
Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Jonathan Edwards's sermon "A Divine and Supernatural Light."
David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson about T.S. Eliot's poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
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.
Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Desiderius Erasmus's famous "In Praise of Folly."
Michial Farmer talks with guest panelists Christina Bieber Lake and Katie Grubbs about the classic TV series "The Twilight Zone."
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.
David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour serve up some listener emails, Facebook posts, and blog comments.
Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Franz Kafka's short story "In the Penal Colony."
Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1976 movie Rocky.
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.
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.
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.
David Grubbs chats with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the 1994 film "Jurassic Park."
Michial Farmer talks David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Gerard Manley Hopkins and his sequence of lament-sonnets that critics call the "Terrible Sonnets."