The Christian Humanist Podcast

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about the trio's reading in 2018. Along the way they talk about devotional reading, reading for interviews, research reading, and all sorts of groovy things.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Christmas poem and later Christmas carol "Christmas Bells" or "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the 1998 film "The Prince of Egypt."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about the 15th-century morality play "Everyman."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs about Eugene Peterson, who recently died, and his connections between literature and spirituality.

Are you ready to heat up some leftovers? Victoria Reynolds Farmer, along with other CHRN hosts and listeners, talks turkey and explores one holiday in which food is what human beings do well.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the ancient connections between education and intellectual virtues and the ways that they might connect to the life of the Christian college.

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour read and respond to listener emails.

David Grubbs talks with Jordan Poss and Todd Pedlar about Alfred Hitchcock's film "The 39 Steps."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about James Cone's 1975 book "God of the Oppressed."

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about James Cone's 1975 book "God of the Oppressed."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about James Cone's 1975 book "God of the Oppressed."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about some of the standard texts that tend to populate freshman composition syllabi.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about Aretha Franklin's 1967 "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the rhetorical and philosophical maneuver called the Motte and Bailey.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about Athanasius's letter "On the Interpretation of the Psalms."

Michial Farmer chats with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Octavio Paz's poem "San Ildelfonso Nocturne."

Michial Farmer reads Octavio Paz's poem "San Ildelfonso Nocturne" as a supplement to the Christian Humanist Podcast discussion of the poem.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Eric Bennett's essay "Dear Humanities Profs, We Are the Problem."

David Grubbs chats with Nathan Gilmour about honors programs, the idea of great books, Socratic instruction, and all sorts of groovy things.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Steve Taylor's 1987 album "I Predict 1990."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Michael Gerson's recent essay "The Last Temptation" and David French's response to the same.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Christina Bieber Lake about the radio program "Donovan's Brain."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about three Easter homilies from the fifth-century Pope Leo I.

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the traditions and contradictions of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about chapters five and six of George Lindbeck's book "The Nature of Doctrine."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about chapters three and four of George Lindbeck's book "The Nature of Doctrine."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the first two chapters of George Lindbeck's book "The Nature of Doctrine."

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Miles Davis jazz album "Kind of Blue."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the deuterocanonical book "The Wisdom of Solomon."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the New Testament book Galatians.

Michial Farmer talks with Todd Pedlar and Nathan Gilmour about the long tradition of non-violent resistance to the world's powers, starting with Jesus and wrapping up with a conversation on Antifa.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the recent essay "How Podcasting Hurts Preaching" from Christianity Today.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Nobel Prize winner Kashuo Ishigura's novel "The Remains of the Day."

David Grubbs takes Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour on a sea voyage through Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Ulysses."

Who's been naughty, who's been nice, and who's been heretical? Settle in for this Christmas season's reading of David Grubbs's "Nick at Nicea!"

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about T.S. Eliot's essay "The Idea of a Christian Society." This episode comes to you live from the Culture, Criticism, and the Christian Mind conference at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Plato's brief dialogue "Ion."

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Gadamer's essay "The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem."

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the first-century (probably) Christian text 1 Clement.

David Grubbs and the Christian Humanist Crossover Crew talk about the Universal Monster Movie "The Mummy" in the finale of our 2017 Christian Humanist Radio Network crossover.

As David Grubbs battles the monster Laryngitis, Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour answer emails from podcast listeners.

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Star-Spangled Banner," and other patriotic songs and their place in the life of America and of the Church.

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Messiaen symphony "Quartet for the End of Time."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour about the Sophocles tragedy "Oedipus at Kolonos."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 1987 movie and youth-group staple "The Princess Bride."

"Before They Were Live" begins at the beginning, with a discussion of the first Walt Disney feature, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Josh and Michial discuss the film's conception and production, the technology that had to be invented to make it happen, the marketing innovations surrounding it, J.R.R. Tolkien's hatred of it--and much more. Like what you hear? Subscribe to Before They Were Live via iTunes, at christianhumanist.org, or at http://feeds.feedburner.com/BeforeTheyWereLive

Nathan Gilmour talks with Dre'as Sanchez, a camper from Theology Beer Camp, about the Superbowl, the world of Christian podcasts, and eventually Reza Aslan's book "Zealot."

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about the Robin Hood mythology and about three Robin Hood movies: Eroll Flynn's 1938 "Robin Hood," 1973's Disney "Robin Hood," and Kevin Costner's 1991 "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves."

Nathan Gilmour talks with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about Martha Nussbaum's 1997 essay "The Narrative Imagination."