The Christian Humanist Podcast

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.

Episodes

October 24, 2022 65 mins

Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson kick off the network's annual Halloween crossover with a discussion of John Carpenter's seminal slasher Halloween

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Michial Farmer and David Grubbs talk about John Updike's long-ish poem "Americana," airports, and hotel rooms. 

Yes, Farmer spelled the name of the podcast wrong in the cover art. 

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September 27, 2022 67 mins

Nathan Gilmour talks to guests Carter Stepper and Katie Grubbs about the last few seasons of the science-fiction series The Expanse

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September 13, 2022 66 mins

Nathan Gilmour talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Dana Gioia's recent First Things essay "Christianity and Poetry." 

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August 23, 2022 56 mins

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit

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August 9, 2022 70 mins

We're back! Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about a 1979 episode of Sears Radio Theater called, appropriately enough, "The Sabbatical." Come listen as we encounter A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH when Melville Pauley winds his way through Vienna. 

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Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller to talk about the term "deconstruction" and how its connotations shifted in the twenty-first century. Gilmour keeps drifting back to the twentieth century as Miller adn Dawson try to get him with the times.
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Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller in the Christian Humanist Radio Network crossover event on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, the Christianity Today podcast series. This squad digs into the philosophy of journalism and history-making, posing how and when and why questions about the project.
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Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Victoria Reynolds Farmer in the network's annual Halloween crossover, discussing Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Descent Into the Maelstrom."
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May 25, 2021 71 mins
In this year's season finale, Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the Grimm Brothers and their fairy tale "Brother and Sister."
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Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Book 3, Chapters 82-85 of Thucydides's "History of the Peloponnesian War," and the three reflect on rebellions and revolutions.
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May 11, 2021 66 mins
David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas to Michial Farmer.
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May 4, 2021 72 mins
Mathew Block talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 2006 Will Ferrell film "Stranger Than Fiction."
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April 27, 2021 76 mins
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Sixpence None the Richer's self-titled 1997 album. Yes, the one with "Kiss Me."
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April 20, 2021 66 mins
David Grubbs dives into St. Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" to talk to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria.
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April 13, 2021 76 mins
The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.
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March 30, 2021 60 mins
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.
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March 23, 2021 61 mins
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about Aelfric of Eynsham's 10th-century Latin primer "The Colloquy."
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March 16, 2021 73 mins
Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."
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March 9, 2021 74 mins
Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
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