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Episode #56: Civil Wars
General Introduction – Comparing offices – What’s on the blog? – Listener feedback – Punching the tar baby Absalom, Absalom! – The roots of civil war in incest – Popular support – Mourning for the...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #62: Aeschylus
General Introduction – Flowin’ like a bottle of Drano – What’s on the blog? – A listener vastly overestimates us Who Is Prometheus? – Deflating Gilmour’s balloon – Zeus as new god on the block –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #71: Humility
General Introduction – What’s not on the blog? – Thus begins the triptych of spring 2012 New Testament Humility – The ethics of humility – The Golden Rule, further – Christ’s kenosis and ours –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #79: The Doctor Is In!
General Introduction – Welcome back! – A hot Minnesota August – Nathan’s premature semester – Looking forward to David’s J-Term – Prolegomena to Rock – Listener feedback – Can we get Nathan to rap? –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #87: Death
General Introduction – Nathan’s snottier than usual – David goes back to bed – Listener feedback Death in the Bible – A Psalm of Moses – Daniel speaks out – Job knows that his redeemer liveth –...
View ArticleThe Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #93.1: Answers to Your Questions
General Introduction – A month of decimals – What’s David teaching? John Donne and Death – Does he appeal to the bodily resurrection? – Quippiness, chipperness – Taking death seriously – Dimunutions...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #98: Ode on a Grecian Urn
General Introduction – We read the poem – Happy snow—happy, happy snow! – No listener feedback The Great Odes of 1819 – What do they have in common? – Experimentation with sonnets – The lyric tradition...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #122.1: Milton’s Nativity Ode
General Introduction – How cold is it? – Michial is froggy – Which one of you is the butler? – A big load of listener feedback – Our devoted lovers and our dirty John Donne headspace Situating the...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #135: Songs of Innocence and Experience
General Introduction – Some eschatology – Listener feedback – A Dante omission – A dedicated After Virtue episode? – Jacques Barzun on baseball – YOLO, tower libraries – Cain and the Alien series Poet...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #155.1: Banned Books
Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour talk about banned books and the history of censorship.
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #163: Listener Feedback
The Christian Humanists respond to listener emails. [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic...
View ArticleChristian Humanist Profiles 50: The Poetry of John Milton
Download this interview or listen on Stitcher Chaucer amuses us and Shakespeare moves us and Donne charms us, but among English poets none towers over us quite as John Milton does. From his...
View ArticleThe Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 173: Doctor Faustus
Download or Stream this Episode Nathan Gilmour leads a discussion with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs on Christopher Marlowe’s 1594 play Doctor Faustus. Doctor Faustus on Gutenberg.org
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 192: Hopkins’s Terrible Sonnets
Michial Farmer leads David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour in a discussion of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s six “terrible sonnets.”
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