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 attemp
Michial Farmer · Nathan Gilmour
Show overview
The Christian Humanist Podcast has been publishing since 1970, and across the 52 years since has built a catalogue of 411 episodes. That works out to roughly 450 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 1m and 1h 14m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 3.6 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2020, with 43 episodes published. Published by Nathan Gilmour.
From the publisher
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 [email protected].
Latest Episodes
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Ep 333Episode 333: Halloween
Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson kick off the network's annual Halloween crossover with a discussion of John Carpenter's seminal slasher Halloween.
Episode 332: Americana
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.
Episode 331: Closing The Expanse
Nathan Gilmour talks to guests Carter Stepper and Katie Grubbs about the last few seasons of the science-fiction series The Expanse.
Ep 330Episode 330: Christianity and Poetry
Nathan Gilmour talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Dana Gioia's recent First Things essay "Christianity and Poetry."
Ep 329Episode 329: Tobit
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit.
Ep 328Episode 328: The Sabbatical
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.
Episode 327: Deconstruction Then and Now
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.
Episode 326: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
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.
Episode 325: Descent into the Maelstrom (Halloween Crossover 2021)
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."
Episode 324: Brother and Sister
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."
Episode 323: Thucydides on Revolution
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.
Episode 322: Some Icelandic Sagas
David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas to Michial Farmer.
Episode 321: Stranger than Fiction
Mathew Block talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 2006 Will Ferrell film "Stranger Than Fiction."
Episode 320: Sixpence None the Richer
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."
Episode 319: The Conversion of Edwin
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.
Episode 318: Sidney's Psalms
The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.
Episode 317: Louise Glück
Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.
Episode 316: Aelfric's Colloquy
David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about Aelfric of Eynsham's 10th-century Latin primer "The Colloquy."
Episode 315: The Lamp at Noon
Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."
Episode 314: Rerum Novarum
Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.