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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.

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    • Oct 25, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • monthly NEW EPISODES
    • 33m AVG DURATION
    • 818 EPISODES

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    Episode 333: Halloween

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2022 65:31


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 11, 2022 65:20


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2022 67:36


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

    Episode 330: Christianity and Poetry

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 66:44


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

    Episode 329: Tobit

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2022 56:13


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

    Episode 328: The Sabbatical

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2022 70:54


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 82:45


    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 327: Deconstruction Then and Now

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2022 1:10


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2022 77:23


    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 326: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2022 1:10


    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)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 56:55


    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 325: Descent into the Maelstrom (Halloween Crossover 2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 1:10


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 1:10


    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 324: Brother and Sister

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2021 71:52


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2021 1:10


    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 323: Thucydides on Revolution

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2021


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021 1:10


    David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas to Michial Farmer.

    Episode 322: Some Icelandic Sagas

    Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2021


    David Grubbs patiently explains two Icelandic sagas to Michial Farmer.

    Episode 321: Stranger than Fiction

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 1:10


    Mathew Block talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 2006 Will Ferrell film "Stranger Than Fiction."

    Episode 321: Stranger than Fiction

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 72:03


    Mathew Block talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about the 2006 Will Ferrell film "Stranger Than Fiction."

    Episode 320: Sixpence None the Richer

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 1:10


    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 320: Sixpence None the Richer

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2021 76:00


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2021 1:10


    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 319: The Conversion of Edwin

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2021 66:14


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 1:10


    The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.

    Episode 318: Sidney's Psalms

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 13, 2021 76:30


    The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.

    Episode 317: Louise Glück

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 1:10


    Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.

    Episode 317: Louise Glück

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 60:37


    Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.

    Episode 316: Aelfric's Colloquy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 1:10


    David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about Aelfric of Eynsham's 10th-century Latin primer "The Colloquy."

    Episode 316: Aelfric's Colloquy

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2021 61:11


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2021 1:10


    Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."

    Episode 315: The Lamp at Noon

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2021 73:32


    Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."

    Episode 314: Rerum Novarum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 1:10


    Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

    Episode 314: Rerum Novarum

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 74:14


    Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

    Episode 313: Robert Hayden

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 1:10


    David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, "Those Winter Sundays" and "The Whipping."

    Episode 313: Robert Hayden

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2021 56:51


    David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, "Those Winter Sundays" and "The Whipping."

    CHP Rewind: The Grape Prophet

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 1:10


    The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally and on vinyl.

    CHP Rewind: The Grape Prophet

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 72:20


    The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally and on vinyl.

    Episode 312: The Augsburg Confession

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 1:10


    Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.

    Episode 312: The Augsburg Confession

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2021 70:46


    Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.

    Episode 311: Major Tom

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2021 1:10


    Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969's "Space Oddity" and 1980's "Ashes to Ashes."

    Episode 311: Major Tom

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2021 68:28


    Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969's "Space Oddity" and 1980's "Ashes to Ashes."

    Episode 310: Christian Humanism in Church

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2021 1:10


    David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.

    Episode 310: Christian Humanism in Church

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2021 69:24


    David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.

    Episode 309: Afternoon in Linen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 1:10


    Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson's 1943 short story "Afternoon in Linen" with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.

    Episode 309: Afternoon in Linen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2021 53:09


    Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson's 1943 short story "Afternoon in Linen" with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.

    CHP Rewind: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 1:10


    Revisit the talk Michial Farmer had with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Longfellow poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" and recordings of the poem as a Christmas song.

    CHP Rewind: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 22, 2020 70:10


    Revisit the talk Michial Farmer had with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Longfellow poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" and recordings of the poem as a Christmas song.

    Episode 308: Christina Rosetti's Advent Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 1:10


    Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about three Christina Rossetti poems about Advent.

    Episode 308: Christina Rosetti's Advent Poems

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2020 64:10


    Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about three Christina Rossetti poems about Advent.

    Episode 307: Edward Hopper

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 8, 2020 1:10


    Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about four paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper: Night Windows, City Roofs, New York Movie, and Room in New York.

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