The Christian Humanist Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Episode 167: This Is Water Sep 22, 2015

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Danny Anderson holds forth with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour on David Foster Wallace's commencement address "This Is Water."

Episode 166: The Laches Sep 15, 2015

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Nathan Gilmour chats with David Grubbs and Todd Pedlar about Plato's brief dialogue the Laches and alternatives to its concept of courage.

Episode 165: The Office Sep 08, 2015

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David Grubbs talks with Danny Anderson and Nathan Gilmour about the office as a historical development, an environment in which human existence happens, and the site of battles over air conditioning.

Special Release: The Sectarian Review Episode 0 Aug 19, 2015

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Danny Anderson introduces The Sectarian Review, the network's newest show, dedicated to cultural criticism from a Christian intellectual angle.

Episode 164: Amos Aug 18, 2015

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Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the book of Amos, a soaring and terrifying oracle from YHWH, God of the Bible.

Episode 163: Listener Feedback Jun 30, 2015

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Michial Farmer takes David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour through a few months' email to the show. The questions we take on and the times when we do so are thus: [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic freedom [27:09] More holy fools [30:15] Episode suggestions [35:43] John Adams insults / Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. Also, Assassin's Creed [39:58] The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (and Fuller House) [42:34] Young-earth creationism [55:16] A child's Dream of the Rood [56:46] Half-Handed Cloud and Rex Stout [59:01] The Noble Savage in Star Wars [1:07:41] Funding our educations [1:24:25] More Dream of the Rood [1:26:40] Paradise Lost editions [1:28:35] Rene Girard [1:30:03] Donations? [1:33:16] Did the podcast get us our jobs? [1:35:57] Our new web design [1:37:07] Separating Christianity from fundamentalism

Episode 162: Our Bookshelves May 05, 2015

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David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the place of books and bookshelves in all three hosts' workplaces, dwellings, and modes of life.

Episode 161: The Devil Takes Visa Apr 28, 2015

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Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Rodney Clapp's 1996 essay "Why the Devil Takes Visa."

Episode 160: Kalhoun! Apr 21, 2015

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Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Daniel Amos's 1991 album "Kalhoun."

Episode 159: A Little Exercise for Young Theologians Apr 14, 2015

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David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Helmut Thielicke's 1959 essay "A Little Exercise for Young Theologians."