The Christian Humanist Podcast

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**The Christian Humanist Podcast**

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.

Latest Episodes:

Episode 67.03: The Best Music of 2011 Jan 03, 2012

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Michial Farmer gives a rundown of the best music from the year 2011.

Episode 67.02: St. Nicholas at Nicea Dec 23, 2011

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David Grubbs recites the new Christmas classic, the Saint Nicholas Smackdown.

Episode 67: A Christmas Carol Dec 20, 2011

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Nathan Gilmour moderates a discussion on the Christmas classic "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. Along the way the discussion ranges from philosophical and literary backgrounds all the way to whether Dickens is an agent of secularization when it comes to the Christian holiday. Among the writers and ideas discussed are Thomas Malthus, Pliny the Younger, Tiny Tim, Genesis, Christ among the children, and when ghosts started carrying chains around.

Episode 66: Desert Island Books Dec 13, 2011

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Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about what books they'd bring with them if they were stranded on a desert island. So that the description doesn't give away the books, this text shall end here.

Episode 65: Academic Conferences Nov 29, 2011

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David Grubbs moderates a discussion with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the world of the academic conference, digging into their antecedents, their peculiarities, and why Gilmour doesn't much like them. The last third of the episode is dedicated to dreaming up better ways to do conferences. Among the ideas, people, and stereotypes we dig into are Plato's Symposium, the Royal Society, the MLA, the blustering pedant, the perpetual sneer, and the academic conference's drinking problem.

Episode 64: Environmentalism Nov 15, 2011

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Nathan Gilmour moderates the beginning of a discussion with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer (Gilmour had a meeting to make, so the others finished it up) about environmentalism, Christian responses to the same, literary treatments of the natural world, and other groovy stuff. Among the texts and ideas discussed are Genesis, Romans, Augustine, Leonardo da Vinci, Baruch Spinoza, and naive city-slicker environmentalists.

Episode 63.11: Technical Difficulties Nov 15, 2011

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Michial Farmer apologizes for some technical difficulties that have prevented this week's episode from airing and announces some plans for the immediate future.

Episode 63.1: Reality Television Nov 08, 2011

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Michial Farmer and Nathan hold forth on Reality Television, demonstrating once more Gilmour's lack of connection with pop culture. We take on the origins in the documentary format, the shift from documentary's high self-regard to reality TV's self-awareness as entertainment, and discuss why it's alright (according to Farmer) to mock a divorce if it's a Kardashian divorce. Among the TV shows, thinkers, and other ideas we take on are An American Family, The Real World, The Weakest Link, The Soup, Survivor, conservative localism, celebrity narcissism, Mythbusters, and Project Runway.

Episode 63: The End of the World as We Read it Nov 01, 2011

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David Grubbs moderates a discussion with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the apocalypse, apocalyptic literature, and otherwise about the end of things. Working our way from Biblical apocalyptic to modern-day end-of-the-world stories, we focus on the assumed philosophies of history that inform each sort of apocalyptic. Among the texts, ideas, and writers we discuss are Revelation, Daniel, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Dante's Purgatory, Shakespeare's Henry V, Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins, and WALL-E.

Episode 62: Aeschylus Oct 25, 2011

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Nathan Gilmour moderates a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound, traditinally attributed to Aeschylus. Prometheus is a character whose career makes sense in the context of Greek henotheism, becomes unintelligible at the height of Christian literary sensibility, and makes a comeback in some interesting ways as modernity overtakes classical Christianity as the dominant intellectual context in literature. Among the texts, writers, and ideas we discuss are Aeschylus, Boethius, Dante, Milton, Shelley, the New Atheism, and Dostoevsky.

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