The Christian Humanist Podcast

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Episode 153: A Christmas Story Dec 09, 2014

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Danny Anderson hosts a conversation with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about "A Christmas Story," the movie that has become ubiquitous in the twenty-first century. Nostalgia abounds, and somebody might just shoot his own eye out.

Episode 152: What Is Enlightenment? Nov 25, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour holds forth with Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson on Immanuel Kant's essay "What Is Enlightenment?" The trio digs into the strange paradox of argument and obedience as well as into the piece's vision of history as a progression towards an end.

Episode 151: Nostalgia Nov 18, 2014

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Michial Farmer hosts a conversation with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about nostalgia. Going back to the word's seventeenth-century roots and exploring its mutating connotations, the trio ponders whether nostalgia is always individual or might also be a cultural phenomenon.

Episode 150: Good Will Hunting Nov 11, 2014

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David Grubbs chats with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about Good Will Hunting, the third in our trio of Robin Williams movies. Digging into mentorship and psychology and restaurants, the trio enjoys this third part of our tribute to Williams.

Episode 149: Dead Poets Society Nov 04, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour converses with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Dead Poets Society, the second of the Robin Williams trilogy. The trio takes on the strange truncated readings of poetry in the film as well as the conceptions of conformity and friendship that arise.

Episode 148: The Fisher King Oct 28, 2014

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Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour into the semester's trilogy of episodes on Robin Williams movies with a conversation about The Fisher King. As the trio digs into a story that's as much a media ecology as a medieval appropriation, Dante resurfaces (again) as the trio explores the salvation of Jack Lucas.

Episode 147: H.P. Lovecraft Oct 21, 2014

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David Grubbs gets spooky with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour as the trio discusses the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Conversations range from literary influence to biological racism, with some discussions on artistic imagination thrown in for good measure. The stories at the core of the conversation are "The Call of Cthulu," "Arthur Jermyn," and "Pickman's Model."

Episode 146.1: Listener Feedback Oct 14, 2014

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David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour answer listener emails and such. Highlights are as follows: 04:11 Let your sins be strong? 10:21 Robert Louis Stevenson 13:41 Some episode suggestions from Australia 19:25 Suburban corrections 23:53 Thomas and the Ontological Argument 32:35 Thomas and the Cosmological Argument 38:44 Christian Humanist pilgrimages 44:00 Neil Postman and the value of the academic essay 48:15 Amusing Ourselves to Death cartoon 50:48 A recent iTunes review

Episode 146: Psalm 119 Oct 07, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour chats a spell with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Psalm 119. The trio ranges from the literary form of the verse to the ways that the Psalm has shaped the identities of monks and Fundamentalists, landing eventually on some pedagogical speculation.

Special Presentation: Book of Nature, Episode 1 Sep 24, 2014

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Dan Dawson, Charles Hackney, and Todd Pedlar roll out Book of Nature, the Christian Humanist Radio Network's new science and mathematics show.

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