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Episode 145: The Little Prince Sep 23, 2014

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Michial Farmer holds court with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the children's novel "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The trio digs into the satirical and philosophical character of the book before discovering once again that Gilmour is heartless and Farmer gets sad more easily than most.

Episode 144: Allegory Sep 16, 2014

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David Grubbs holds forth with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about allegory, both as a mode of reading and as a literary genre. The debate hinges on what terms mean in which contexts: is a literary text defective because it's an allegory, or are there good or bad allegories? Explore that and other possibilities with us.

Episode 143: Proofs for God Sep 09, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour hosts a conversation with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the five "proofs of God" from the opening sections of Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. The trio's discussion ranges over what a proof is for, whether the ontology in the proofs holds up post-Kant, whether reason and revelation can really be friends, and all sorts of groovy philosophical things.

Episode 142: The Suburbs Sep 02, 2014

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Michial Farmer hosts a conversation with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the suburbs, their history, and their place in ethical reflection. Among the writers, texts, and places engaged are John Cheever, the Roman Empire, the suburbs of Mongomery, Atlanta, and Indianapolis, and the politics of suburbanization.

Episode 141: The Christian Humanist Podcast Aug 26, 2014

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David Grubbs chats with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the range of Christian convictions and backgrounds that go into the Christian Humanist project. Among other matters for discussion, the trio discusses why one is an existentialist, why another isn't a Pelagian, and how the Bible relates to what the Christian Humanist project is all about.

Episode 140: Listener Feedback, August 2014 Aug 12, 2014

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Los Tres Humanistas respond to a variety of listener emails. Among the topics covered (and when we cover them) are as follows: [03:05] Mark Heard and listener feedback about listener feedback. [04:29] Karl Barth's Evangelical Theology and "A Primer on Religious Existentialism." [06:41] Spoon River Anthology and A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [08:47] A case for stupid songs and Grubbs's Dick Van Dyke moment. [12:08] Non-Trinitarian Christianity. [16:05] Postmodernism vs. Bertrand Russell. [20:52] American political theory. [29:44] A defense of Francis Schaeffer. [33:30] The Bible and The Christian Humanist Podcast. [46:33] The best philosophical works? [55:04] Podcast recommendations. [57:09] Jaws and Rabbits. [1:01:11] A physics lesson on Mark Heard. [1:04:09] War and technology.

Episode 139: Tertullian's "On Idolatry" Jul 29, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour holds forth with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer on Tertullian's treatise "On Idolatry." The trio digs into the rhetorical performance that marks the piece as masterful prose as well as the concept of complicity that makes it troubling and interesting even eighteen hundred years later.

Episode 138: Mark Heard Jul 01, 2014

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Michial Farmer hosts a chat with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about influential but little-known Jesus-rocker Mark Heard. Focusing on his final three albums, the Humanists dig into the sound, the content, and themes of love and death in his late work, from the early nineties, conversing as well about other works that hold in common Heard's particular outlook on human existence.

Episode 137: Internet Audio Recommendations May 13, 2014

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Wrapping up the spring semester, David Grubbs hosts a chat with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about what plays when we listen to the Internet. From politics to Walt Disney World, the trio suggests a wide range of shows for our own listeners to check out.

Episode 136: Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Two Short Stories May 06, 2014

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Nathan Gilmour holds forth with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer on "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" and "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World," two short stories by recently deceased Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Garcia Marquez was one of the most prominent writers of Spanish-language fiction for a generation, and his pioneering work in realismo magico occupies the Humanists this go-round. Among the writers and other realities engaged are Magical Realism, Borges, hermeneutics, and Kafka.

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