The Christian Humanist Podcast

In this inaugural episode of Resotration: A Creation Care Podcast, Kim Anderson interviews Beth Bond of the Evangelical Environmental Network. She talks about the importance of creation care (noting that 30% of children in the US today have health conditions impacted by pollution). She speaks with beauty about God’s creation and with deep knowledge about how we can impact this movement as Christians. She reminds us that sustainability and creation care are a journey, not end destinations. And that there are often unintended benefits of our sustainable actions (for example, conducting an energy audit in your church may help save the congregation money).

Revisit the Christian Humanist Podcast's conversation about folk music upon the death of Pete Seeger.

As 2020 sees public conservatives go mad with Trumpism, the CHP revisits a conversation from the Obama years about Sam Tanenhaus's book "The Death of Conservatism."

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about about the James Baldwin story "Sonny's Blues."

To follow last week's conversation about Sophocles, revisit our recent conversation in which David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour about the Sophocles tragedy "Oedipus at Kolonos."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about about the Sophocles tragedy "Philoktetes."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about N.T. Wright's recent Time Magazine editorial "Christianity Offers No Answers about the Corona Virus."

Michial Farmer talks with Katie Grubbs about Sofia Coppola's 2006 film "Marie Antoinette."

Todd Pedlar talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the William Wordsworth poem titled "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer about the John Donne poems titled "La Corona."

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Adam Again's album "Homeboys."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about David Brooks's recent Atlantic article "The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour about Iranaeus's brief text "Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching."

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about sentimentality.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about W.E.B. DuBois's 1895 essay "The Afro-American."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about a series of devotional texts from Anselm of Canterbury.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Dwight MacDonald's essay "Masscult and Midcult" and its main claims.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Dwight MacDonald's essay "Masscult and Midcult" and its main claims.

For the run-up to our episode on MassCult and MidCult, listen as Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Danny Anderson about Lionel Trilling's essay "On the Teaching of Modern Literature."

In a throwback to 2012, Michial Farmer moderates a conversation with David Grubbs, Nathan Gilmour, and special guest hosts Stephen Sandridge and Tim Rhodes (from the Night Cheese podcast) about the television Christmas special. Starting with adaptations of A Christmas Carol and moving through the weirdness of Rankin-Bass, the crossover crew digs into the ways that sentimentality gives way to irony in the course of television's brief Christmas history but never quite overcomes Charlie Brown. Among the television shows and other realities discussed are Mr. Magoo's Christmas, Rudoloph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Alf's Christmas special, and A Claymation Christmas.

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Washington Irving's Christmas stories from "The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about a sermon on Matthew 3 by John Chrysostom and one on Luke 3 by Aelfric.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about two Dorothy Sayers essays connecting theology and aesthetics.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver and the recent Internet chatter about what makes films art or something other than art.

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and space travel as a childhood aspiration.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about Gregory Nazianzen's first theological oration.

Calling back to 2010, a younger Christian Humanist trio discusses the distinctions and common grounds between Church teaching, certainty in dogmatic pronouncement, and other such meta-theological matters.

As part of our 2019 Halloween Crossover Event, Michial Farmer talks about Stephen King's novel Misery with Christina Bieber Lake and Katie Grubbs . . . you dirty bird.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about two Gabriel Marcel essays.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about two Gabriel Marcel essays.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Woodstock, the legendary and controversial 1969 music festival.

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about Dante Allighieri's letter to the Veronese nobleman Can Grande (Big Dog).

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about T.S. Eliot's poem "Ash-Wednesday."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Circles."

In the CHRN's new series, hosts from across the network dive into good books and take our time in them. In the series premier, Michial Farmer, Christina Bieber Lake, and Jay Eldred talk about the opening books of Homer's Iliad.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about the traditions and the follies of college graduation ceremonies.

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about J.R.R. Tolkien's short story "Leaf by Niggle."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about philosophical problems that emerge when we think about loyalty.

Michial Farmer talks with Danny Anderson, David Grubbs, and Nathan Gilmour about the album "77s" by the 77s.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the Old English poem "Guthlac" and a section of Bonhoeffer's "Life Together" on the topic of solitude.

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1999 film "The Matrix."

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about the modern fascination with walking in large urban crowds.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Richard M. Weaver's essay "Education and the Individual."

David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour chat about Epictetus's short Enchiridion.

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about James Weldon Johnson's poem collection "God's Trombones."

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Junichiro Tanazaki's essay "In Praise of Shadows."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Malcolm X's famous speech "The Ballot or the Bullet."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about two Dorothy Sayers episodes connecting theology and aesthetics.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Erik Satie's impressionist composition "Trois Gymnopedies."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Charles Duhigg's recent article in The Atlantic, "Why Are Americans So Angry?"