Christian Humanist Profiles

Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 278: Charles E. Moore

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 277: David Zahl

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The New Testament book of Revelation is light on scenes of battle but never hesitates to announce that God has won a battle. Whether the text implies that a battle never actually happened or just moves the battles so far out of the narrative’s zone of attention that they’re rendered unimportant, Revelation as a narrative never says that the disciples of Jesus don’t need to be killers because God has already won the battles but seems to imply something like that. David Zahl’s book The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World brings a version of that good news to 21st-century folk, to scenes of exhaustion more than persecution, exploring some of the fake news that tries to do the work of grace and showing why only grace really saves. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome David to the show to talk about fake grace and real.

Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 276: Gabriel Said Reynolds

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Stories of spiritual origins often begin as the new way emerges against the dominant traditions of the region. Thus Siddhartha grows up among the Brahmins and Moses among the Egyptians. Joseph Smith and Elijah Muhammad, each in his own way, emerges among American Protestants. But what about the much older, Arabian Muhammad? Many stories of Islam’s rise situate Muhammad among polytheists, proclaiming one God to folks with plentiful spirits. But Gabriel Said Reynods invites us, in his recent book Christianity and the Qur’an, from Yale University Press, to consider another possibility: what if Arabian Christianity stands as the Qur’an’s earliest conversation counterpart? Christian Humanist Profiles stands glad to welcome Dr. Reynolds on the show to talk about his research on these questions.

Christian Humanist Profiles 275: Nick Sorensen

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

When teachers complain about the ways that schools evaluate our teaching–and we do so with frequency and enthusiasm–one of the common refrains has to do with the measuring instruments and their inability to account for randomness and adjustment to randomness. Many a hallway story involves a moment when a teacher’s plans became irrelevant and the teacher responded. Sometimes in these stories we adapt. Sometimes we invent. But as often as anything else, we improvise, a word that we share with the worlds of jazz music and stage comedy. Nick Sorensen has taken that moment and proposed ways to evaluate the work of teachers in more complex and ultimately more adequate ways, and his recent book The Improvising Teacher: Reconceptualising Pedagogy, Expertise, and Professionalism presents his research and some proposals for moving forward more intelligently. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Sorensen to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 274: Bethany Mannon

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Ask six Americans what the adjective or the noun “evangelical” means, and you’ll get as many answers. Ask six historians, and you might get twelve. But what if you ask a rhetorician? We’re going to find out today as Christian Humanist Profiles welcomes Dr. Bethany Ober Mannon to the show to talk about her book I Grew Up in the Church: How American Women Tell Their Stories. Along the way we’ll visit and revisit some figures and some phrases that our long-time listeners will remember from episodes of The Christian Feminist Podcast, and perhaps we can add to the conversations that we inherit from them.

Christian Humanist Profiles 273: Joy Vaughan

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Most of the world happens when I’m not in the room. That’s been a guiding principle for me as I’ve read and heard about all kinds of things I’ve never seen. I know some folks prefer David Hume’s assumption that anything that doesn’t resemble closely enough what one has witnessed directly is more likely delusion or deception than real testimony, and I know others would just as soon dismiss the experiences of folks not from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as primitive or worse, but I’ll take Hamlet over Hume on these kinds of matters: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” And although our approaches to these matters differ somewhat, I think I found an ally in Joy Vaughan’s book Phenomenal Phenomena: Biblical and Multicultural Accounts of Spirits and Exorcism. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Vaughan to the show to talk about her research.

Christian Humanist Profiles 272: Rebekah Spera & David M. Peña-Guzman

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:00:00 +0000

When Amaziah, Priest of the Shrine of Bethel, confronts the prophet Amos for conspiring against King Amaziah, Amos replies with a very specific denial: “I am no prophet, nor a prophet’s son.” And it’s hard to run for president of the United States without insisting early and often that “I’m not a politician.” What about philosophers? What happens when you ask a philosopher whether or not she’s a philosopher? We might find that out today as we talk with Rebekah Spera and David M. Peña-Guzman about their recent book Professional Philosophy and Its Myths from Lexington Books. And even if we don’t, I imagine we’ll find ourselves posing questions about the field that we call academic philosophy that are worth posing.

Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Rhodri Lewis

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Living among human beings gives an observant person plenty of occasions to think about delusion. Whether one watches the young revolutionary or the aging politician, the conspiracy theorist or the devotee of conventional wisdom, human beings take a peculiar joy in fooling ourselves. And we don’t have to limit ourselves to a single explanation of delusion either: Calvin’s workshop for idols and Nietzsche’s clever forgetting ape both make good sense, depending on whom one watches and in which moment. One could even imagine someone wondering, and forgiving the gendered language of his moment, “What a piece of work is man!” And if that last one rings true, you’re already geared up to hear about Shakespeare’s explorations of human delusion, specifically in his tragedies. Rhodri Lewis’s recent book Shakespeare’s Tragic Art puts delusion in the center of the conversation, and Christian Humanist Profiles, with a very clear mind indeed, is glad to welcome him to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 270: Andrew Perrin

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In the middle of the twentieth century a process of collection started, one that would profoundly shape of Biblical studies for decades to come, all the way to our own moment. To say more than that would run afoul of any number of chapters of Andrew Perrin’s book Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds: Rediscovering the Dead Sea Scrolls from Lexham Press, so I’ll try not to overstep. Instead I’ll say that his book stands both as an introduction to this fascinating collection and its place in our knowledge of Biblical cultures and that for someone like me who studied Qumran back when Bill Clinton was president, the book provides some interesting new questions to pose.

Christian Humanist Profiles 269: Gerald Bray

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Every story of thought and thinking runs into its own kinds of problems. Progressive accounts do well showing how predecessors were not quite as sharp or as moral as we are, but they have a hard time saying what might come to pass in years or generations to come. Conservative narratives have to distinguish between things worthy to conserve and things best left to antiquarians. Revolutionary accounts anticipate radical ruptures but tend to neglect good things that revolutions tend to leave behind. And Christian stories of the history of thought face the struggle of deciding when to say, with Jesus in Matthew, that whoever is not with us is against us; and when to say, with Jesus in Mark, that whoever is not against us is with us. Gerald Bray’s book Athens and Jerusalem: Philosophy, Theology, and the Mind of Christ takes up that work of distinguishing influences of Christian theology from resistance to the same, and Dr. Bray is here to talk to us about that project.

Christian Humanist Profiles 268: Philip Thomas

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

If a tree falls by an axe, the stump will, given enough time, grow back. Human beings who fall violently have no such hope–we never rise again. With that image, from Job 17, the book’s title character indicts the violence of the LORD and the finality of that violence. But many centuries later, in a very different book, Philip S. Thomas enlists that image to do very different rhetorical work, and that’s what we’re here to investigate. Dr. Thomas’s new book Hope for a Tree: Artistic Afterlives of Job examines films and poetry and literary nonfiction and other artifacts that take up Job’s lines and do other things with them. The investigation leads to persistently interesting questions that arise from traditions whose books are holy, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Thomas to Christian Humanist Profiles.

Christian Humanist Profiles 267: Debra Band & Menachem Fisch

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Do not think any man happy until he has died, free from suffering. That line, or something like it depending on the translator, ends the grand tragedy Oedipus Tyrannous, Oedipus the King. Such meditations on death give us memorable aphorisms, and they come to us not only from the Greeks or the Egyptians but from the teachers of Israel as well. Among the troubling texts of Israel’s wisdom tradition is Qohelet, whose title in English Bibles is often the transliterated Greek word Ecclesiastes and among whose questions one can find this one: what makes a life worthwhile if succeeding generations undo the good that one has done? Scholars and preachers and readers have disputed for centuries where the intellectual center of the book resides, how the author relates to the persona who seems to be Solomon, and a dozen other questions from and about and related in other ways to this puzzling book of the Bible. Today Menachem Fisch, a philosopher, and Debra Band, an artist, will be helping me ask new questions of Qohelet and talking about their book from Baylor University Press titled Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome both to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 266: Philip Jenkins

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Growing up under that Constitutional law, even as an amendment, gave me the idea that there were two things, one called religion and the other called government, and that they existed in nature separate from each other. A working knowledge of history shatters that separation, and Philip Jenkins, in his recent book Kingdoms of this World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions, shows just how varied and how complicated the interactions between crowns and churches and technology and pilgrimages have been. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to talk about politics and religion today with Dr. Jenkins.

Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 265: Simon P. Kennedy

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

When I got serious about Christian discipleship in the early nineties, Christian worldview was in the air. The menace of secular humanism loomed large, and when I enrolled at Milligan College (now Milligan University), a Christian liberal arts college, several people in my life were quite pleased precisely because there, I might emerge with something called a Christian worldview and do battle against something called secular humanism. That was more than thirty years ago, and Simon P. Kennedy has some questions for the folks who promoted that vision of Christian education. His recent book Against Worldview from Lexham Press proposes not an abolition of Christian worldview but new postulates, namely wisdom and cultivation, as alternatives to the old war-metaphors. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Kennedy to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 264: Bill Carter

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:00:00 +0000

In 1917 four seismic shocks rocked the human species: in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution brought a specter from Europe into the center of the world’s most expansive land empire. In Europe, an armistice ended the Great War. Around the world, a pandemic virus began to kill its millions. And in America, the first jazz recording became available. Communism and viruses and jazz had been around before then, of course, but history tells stories with sources, so here we are. A hundred and eight years later, the span between Chicago Cubs World Series wins, the Reverend William Carter is here to join us and talk about the spirituality of it all. Okay, mainly of jazz. His book Thriving on a Riff from Broadleaf Books meditates on spiritual matters with one hand on the Bible and the other on the piano keys, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome him to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 263: Jeff Bilbro

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

With the obvious exception of Plato’s Phaedrus, really old books don’t spend much time on technology. Perhaps the tools didn’t change fast enough. Perhaps their writing materials were expensive enough that they didn’t want to spend time on instrumental matters. Perhaps the questions just never occurred to them. But some time in the modern era, folks started to write about the ways that our tools change and the ways that new sets of tools shape our souls for good and for ill. And one of the moments when those changes were doing the most–the most harm or the most benefit we’ll talk about as the hour rolls along–was the nineteenth century. Jeff Bilbro’s new book Words for Conviviality explores some of the writers engaging with those changes and invites us to hold up those nineteenth-century moments as mirrors to our own, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to invite him back on the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 262: Richard Detweiler

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Liberty has always carried tricky questions with it. Most folks in 2025 would agree that human beings should have liberty, but how one becomes free persists as a debate. Do we spring fully free into this world? Does participation in certain kinds of communities make us free? Can education of this or that sort develop freedom? This last question leads a conversation into the possibility of liberal arts, and Richard Detweiler’s book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs takes up not only a discussion of what makes an education a liberal-arts education but also why and how people in our moment still should make the case for liberal arts. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Detweiler to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 261: Phillip Cary

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000

My own tradition within the Church was an early adopter of the motto “No creed but Christ.” For what intentions are worth, my forerunners seem to have had good ones: in the historical moment, confessions and catechisms and boundary-documents of all sorts were proliferating among Protestant communities, and one way for a unity movement to make progress might be to pare away the documents that some but not all Christian communities took to be central. That was the nineteenth century; now we’re in the twenty-first, and Dr. Phillip Cary has other work for the Nicene Creed to do: we need to learn how to ask Christian questions. That’s what his recent book The Nicene Creed: An Introduction sets out to accomplish, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome him to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 260: Colin Seale

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Among education writers, the phrase “critical thinking” can run from nebulous notions to utter ciphers. Few will disagree that critical thinking is good and needed, but relatively few will agree about what it is in the first place. Colin Seale has not only written about critical thinking in more precise language but established institutions for developing critical thinking as a group of practices that teachers in different places can deploy for students of all kinds of ability levels. His recent book Thinking Like a Lawyer, soon to be released in a new edition, proposes a core set of classroom sessions that develop flexibility and power in thinking, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Seale to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 259: Katherine Dell

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

When I was a novice in Biblical Studies Hans Frei’s book The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative invited me to consider not only the world that gave us the Bible but also the world that the Bible gives us, to read the canonical text as world-generating as well as world-contingent. As I continued in the discipline, another world emerged, namely the world that teaches us to pose certain questions and attend to certain realities within the text. And so I learned to understand the interplay of Torah and creation and wisdom and prophecy in these texts not only as emerging from their moments of composition–that never goes away–but also from the intellectual and cultural and military struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The stories of the Bible’s readers stand just as important as the stories of the Bible’s writers. Katherine Dell’s book The Lord by Wisdom Founded the Earth: Creation and Covenant in Old Testament Theology renews our inquiries into all of these worlds, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome her to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Slogans have always occupied our public attention, and the ways that an enemy redefines a slogan can be as important as the phrase’s original connotation. We can learn a fair bit about public life and public speech just tracing the course and changes and counter-thrusts surrounding words and phrases like fake news, alt-right, social justice, and woke. Sola Scriptura goes back centuries before these other terms, and its career likewise promises to shed light on some complex relationships between texts and communities whose common lives involve something called Bible. Dr. Ben Witherington’s recent book Sola Scriptura: Scripture’s Final Authority in the Modern World from Baylor University Press explores both the ways Sola Scriptura as a phrase has changed and the important continuities that emerge when careful historians examine the Church’s relationships with the Holy Scriptures.

Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 11:30:00 +0000

Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another. But etymological roots don’t go far making sense of the fascination and the division and the devotion and the emotion that literature and scriptures bring forth in readers of all sorts. David Jasper has spent a career examining the literary character of Christian and Jewish Scriptures, the strange gravitational influences those Scriptures have exerted on recent literature, and all kinds of likewise compelling things, and his new collection of essays Scripture and Literature: A David Jasper Anthology traces some of the big questions that he’s pursued over the years for the benefit of just those readers, including us.

Christian Humanist Profiles 256: Jeffrey Bilbro & David Henreckson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000

What is education for? The oldest grand library of which I have any knowledge is the tablet-collection of the Assyrian emperor Ashurbanipal, and as far as I can tell, it’s mainly a collection of magic spells for the court sorcerers to draw from when they need this or that kind of wizardry. And on the other end of things, in our little corner of the twenty-first century, some colleges seem to advertise exclusively (or pretty dang near exclusively) what kinds of financial benefits their schools offer to those who enroll. Folks who have heard the Christian Humanist Radio Network talk about education over the years know that we tend to favor visions of education from somewhere in between historically and nowhere in the vicinity theologically, and that’s why I’m excited to have Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro and Dr. David Henreckson on the show to talk about The Liberating Arts: Why We Need Liberal Arts Education from Plough Press. This collection, which they edited with Jessica Hooten Wilson, doesn’t really get into the sorcery end of things–just not that urgent any more, I suppose–but have a good deal to say about the aspirations and visions of education that in our moment stand as a compelling and faithful calls to Christian communities concerned with teaching what’s most worth teaching.

Christian Humanist Profile 255: Michael F. Bird

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:00:00 +0000

If you don’t spend much time around Biblical-studies people, the neologism “parallelomania” might be a new one on you, so let me explain: for different reasons, some writers in Biblical studies seem bent on discovering, naming, and insisting on a particular significance for any text that looks like, sounds like, works like, and otherwise resembles canonical and orthodox and historically central texts. Sometimes the parallelomaniac insists that the similarities render orthodox Christianity a mere winner among contenders, historically speaking, and sometimes the parallelomaniac wants to say that the tradition that comes down to most of us is not much more than centuries of plagiarism. Dr. Michael F. Bird wants to slow down a bit: yes, the ways that worshipers talk about Jesus develop from generation to generation, and yes, some of the formulations differ from one another, but the conclusions might be too hasty. His recent book Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World proposes some different practices for reading a spectrum of ancient texts, and then he shows the reader what those reading processes look like, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome him to the show to talk about all of it.

Christian Humanist Profiles 254: Gary Dorrien

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things that might have been. In the realm of Black religion in the United States, the what-if questions and counterfactuals wonder about a seventy-year-old Dr. King, to be sure, but they also wonder about the directions that theological and political and cultural movements took and what possibilities, lost to contingency, might be worth reclaiming. Such claims and counter-claims are the stuff of Dr. Gary Dorrien’s book A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK from Yale University Press, and Christian Humanist Profiles is thrilled to welcome Dr. Dorrien back to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Eckart Frahm

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Some of us first encounter them as the wicked city that Jonah eventually visits. For others they’re one of the Asian empires that Herodotus surveys on his way to the grand showdown between the Persians and the Greek-speaking city-states. Some of us have run into their legendary figures Sardanapallus and Semiramis in Dante or Byron. And of course some of us still aren’t sure how to avoid the Gorge of Eternal Peril when the old man asks us “What is the capital of Assyria?” (We’ll address that one later.) But relatively few of us know much about the Assyrians as they present themselves and how they fit into the changing landscape of ancient civilization. So Christian Humanist Profiles is glad today to welcome Eckart Frahm, whose recent book Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire does just what the title promises, showing us what that ancient world looks like from inside Assyria as well as the spectrum of views from beyond the fall of those grand urban walls.

Christian Humanist Profiles 252: Trevor Laurence

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

You have heard that it is said: love your neighbor and hate your enemy. Translations might differ, but what follows comes across well in most translations: Jesus enjoins those hearing the Sermon on the Mount to love enemies and pray for persecutors. Those unsettling commandments never stop scandalizing those who spend time meditating on them, and those who contemplate the New Testament and pray the Old Testament run into another problem: certain of the Psalms pray regarding enemies, but few readers would mistake them for loving intercessions. How can a follower of the one who forgave his enemies from the cross pray onthe same God that God break those enemies’ teeth? That question has always been before us, whether we know it or not, and Dr. Trevor Laurence’s book Cursing with God takes it as seriously as Holy Scriptures demand, articulating a theology of Scripture, of forgiveness, and of the role of the faithful along the way. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Laurence to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 251: Shaun Ross

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Theology and literature have always seemed a natural pair to me. In fact, I’ve written a Master’s Thesis examining Ezekiel with the help of William Blake; another digging into Christology through Aemelia Lanier and John Milton; and a doctoral dissertation arguing that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton were making moves in theological ethics that the theological academy only caught up to in the late twentieth century. So when I found out that Dr. Shaun Ross had a book for me to read about the Eucharist and seventeenth-century English poets, I knew I was going to be talking to my kind of thinker. Shaun’s recent book The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from Oxford University Press poses some really great questions about some really great poems, and Christian Humanist Profiles is really glad to welcome him to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 250: Heather Hoover

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 11:30:00 +0000

The stereotype, whether we want to dismantle it or acknowledge it, holds that those who teach college English begin a quest in graduate school to be rid of teaching writing. As early as the mid-twentieth century Richard M. Weaver told the same story, and Weaver was among the first to take that stereotype not as an acknowledgment of rerum naturem but as the story of a fall, a decline from a day when the professor of rhetoric stood at the pinnacle of undergraduate education to a moment when those who still teach it in mid-career must have fumbled somehow. Mercifully, in the last decades of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st, a sort of rhetorical renaissance has blossomed in English departments, and Dr. Heather Hoover’s book Composition as Conversation: Seven Virtues for Effective Writing has taken a seat at that grand banquet of teachers who celebrate writing rather than fleeing the same. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Hoover to talk with us about the book.

Theology Beer Camp Remix: Myron Penner

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:23:56 +0000

With Theology Beer Camp 2023 just around the corner (alas, I won’t be here, as I’m trying to be judicious taking days off during year one of my career change), I wanted to get Myron Penner’s talk from last year’s camp, along with our conversation that happened a spell later, out to you.

Here’s the backstory: Myron and I did a live podcast back in October 2022, but the laptop on which the interview was being recorded cut out 30 minutes in. So Myron and I got together on Zoom some time later and had a conversation, with the benefit of a few months’ reflection, based on our notes from that weekend.

Visit www.christianhumanist.org to view Penner's talk from Theology Beer Camp for some context.

Christian Humanist Profiles 249: Lyric Theology with Thomas Gardner

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Genesis–Bereshith in the Hebrew–opens with grand narratives of beginnings and generations, and the New Testament starts with four distinctive narrative accounts of Jesus, the anointed one. For traditions that consider theology an interpretive endeavor at the outset, then, stories are the start, and Psalms and hymns and prophetic verse follow close behind. But somewhere along the line, the propositions and syllogisms and refutations and such that get their start as commentaries on the narrative and Psalmic and apocalyptic start to make demands of their own, and theology becomes even more a ground for contest than it seems to be in the texts that we call Bible. Where does that leave us when it comes to theology? Dr. Thomas Gardner’s book Lyric Theology calls us back to verse and narrative and on ahead into film, reminding us that it can’t hurt to come back home when it comes to theology.

Christian Humanist Profiles 248: Valerie Tiberius

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 May 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Philoctetes is not the best-known Sophocles tragedy, but its questions stick with me. When the title character insists on his dignity as a man of war, he runs afoul of the Odysseus of Sophocles, who could not care less about the wounded warrior’s sense of being wronged, so he enlists Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who insists that abstract virtues of war must govern everything that concerns the struggle. I won’t spoil the ending of Philoctetes today, but I will say that conflicting values have not become any less interesting in the two and a half millennia since. Dr. Valerie Tiberius has brought that conversation off the mythological battlefield and into the very real tensions between money and reputation and peace of mind and different kinds of abstract principles in her recent book What Do You Want out of Life, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome her to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 247: The Secret Gospel of Mark

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 11:00:00 +0000

What’s on the table when we claim that a newly-discovered text came from a Biblical author? To answer that question might take an investigation that spans the Roman Empire, desert monasteries, New York City apartments, the academic publishing industry, and the libraries and universities that change hands during wars and elections and all sorts of other events that intervene between us and that glorious first century. Such a story is before us today, and Geoffrey S. Smith’s and Brent C. Landau’s recent book The Secret Gospel of Mark is going to show us just how complicated and sometimes how weird the world of textual criticism can be. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome them to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 246: Matthew Milliner

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Tell me where you spend your Sunday mornings, and then where your grandmother spent her Sunday mornings, and I’ll venture a guess at what you think Christian art looks like. In the realm of Christian art that involves basilicas and mosaics the icon holds a special place: by some accounts mainly a window through which one looks upon divine reality, the artistry of the icon nonetheless promises a different view of the world we inhabit, and the Virgin of the Passion, if Matthew Milliner is right, seeks nothing less than to set the world’s eyes back on the Christ who saves by suffering and whose passion does not begin on a cross but in his very infancy. His book Mother of the Lamb: The Story of a Global Icon, from Fortress Press, tells the story of that icon, beginning as it does with an artist who departs an imperial city and continuing in our day as his work journeys everywhere people call out to the heavens. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Matthew to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 245: Ben Witherington & Jason Myers

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:00:00 +0000

“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.” When I first read those words from St. Paul, they inoculated me against certain kinds of inquiry. St. Paul must not have been an orator the way we think of orators, because he didn’t rely on eloquence when he spoke. His education, therefore, must have been irrelevant to his epistles. And certainly we won’t learn anything by attending to the rhetorical form when we take on his writings. But here’s some good news for you, listeners: Ben Witherington and Jason Myers are here to get those ideas off the table. The second edition of their book New Testament Rhetoric demonstrates that not only Paul but all sorts of New Testament writers exhibit familiarity with and formation through ancient canons of rhetoric, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome them to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 244: Paul Blaschko

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The one who saves his life will lose it. The one who sows to the spirit will reap life. I am the way and the truth and the life. Life is like a box of chocolates. Ways of life and forms of life and such matters concerning life have occupied sages and philosophers and poets and preachers as long as human beings became word-slingers, and yet attempting the good life seems to require that each generation start anew somehow, to shape lives and to seek life for the first time every time. Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko’s recent book The Good Life Method: Reasoning Through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning grew out of a redesigned introduction to philosophy class that deliberately sets that shaping and seeking of a good life at the project’s center, and we’ll talk about that at some length before too long. For now Christian Humanist Profiles is happy to welcome Dr. Paul Blaschko to the show to talk about that journey and that book.

Christian Humanist Profiles 243: Bren DuBay

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Somethin’s brewin’ on the podcast. I wonder what it could be? If you’ve seen the stage musical version of “The Cotton Patch Gospel” you know what and whom we’re talking about, but just in case you’ve never heard that musical, or if you’ve not read The Cotton Patch Gospels, or if you have no idea about anything I’ve mentioned up to this point, you’re just the person to have a seat and chat with us. Clarence Jordan, Georgia Baptist preacher and the best kind of trouble-maker, was preaching and starting up Koinonia Farm and drawing the wrath of the KKK and publishing a new version of the Bible and keeping entirely busy in the middle twentieth century, and we’re here to talk some about what he said and what he wrote, compiled in the recent Plough Publishing House book The Inconvenient Gospel. Joining me is Bren Dubay, who runs Koinonia Farm today (and who no doubt will correct that verb as soon as I shut up here), and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome her on the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 242: Peter K. Fallon

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:00:00 +0000

The book I expected to read would present all the ways in which human communities in the digital age are dealing with a decentralized authority structure, how any given woman or man might jump on the Internet, either through a browser or a social-media program or by some other means, and encounter half a dozen figures, all competing for status as authorities on the question at hand, disagreeing with each other not on marginal matters but on the most important, most central parts of the public policy or scientific finding or the political tension at hand. The book I expected to read would look at all that and warn me about the dangers of a post-truth world. Peter K. Fallon takes a look at the same stew of unstable sources and says, “How cool is that?” His new book Propaganda 2.1 from Cascade Books draws from the rightly-renowned examinations of Jacques Ellul and then launches forward, never denyinig the dangers of citizenship in an Internet context but also looking at the genuinely good possibilities that emerge. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Fallon to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 241: Walter Brueggemann

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Walter Brueggemann did not only teach me to read the Bible: he taught me to read. In the twenty-two years since I first read A Theology of the Old Testament I’ve been bringing the questions that book poses to Biblical texts over to every literary text I’ve come across: in what ways am I reading primary testimony or counter-testimony as I take on Toni Morrison or John Milton or Sophocles? How are these texts relating to and creating audiences when I teach Shakespeare or Plato or James Baldwin? And where do my own readings fit into stories of interpretive and disciplinary conversations whenever I engage with any text? Those questions keep on doing their work in Brueggemann’s recent collection of essays Resisting Denial, Refusing Despair, and Christian Humanist Profiles is thrilled to welcome him back to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 240: Eric Vanden Eykel

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called “Heaven and Nature Swing.” It led with a “Caravan”-inspired arrangement of “We Three Kings”--if you don’t know “Caravan,” hit YouTube post-haste–and when I hear the hymn, these thirty years later, I always feel cheated when it doesn’t break out into snake-charmer saxophone runs at the ends of the rhyming lines. Today we’re not talking about jazz, but we are talking about what we think we should see and we should hear when we take on stories and characters that we think we know. Eric Vanden Eykel’s recent book The Magi: Who They Were, How They’ve Been Remembered, and Why They Still Fascinate treats the Magi (and my pronunciation of that word is going to move around as we talk–blame seminary Greek and T.S. Eliot) as a kind of jazz standard–we do well to study the first recording, and we also learn some really cool things when we take on later arrangements and reimiginings and even deconstructions of these mysterious figures from Matthew. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Vanden Eykel to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 239: Shaun C. Brown

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous. N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. George Lindbeck didn’t do any of those, as far as I know, but in certain circles of Christian theologians, he’s indisputably intellectual-famous, opening up possibilities for ecumenical engagement and influencing Stanley Hauerwas and attending Vatican II and such. My own engagement with Lindbeck has been almost exclusively with his 1984 book The Nature of Doctrine, so when I got a chance to read Shaun C. Brown’s recent book George Lindbeck: A Biographical and Theological Introduction, I came away seeing his work in that book as a chapter in a rich and rightly intellectual-famous career. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome the Doctor Reverend Brown to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 238: Matthew Ichihashi Potts

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 10:23:00 +0000

“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” I pray those words every Sunday morning at Bogart Christian Church, and I think I have a basic idea of what I mean when I do. But that sense of solid knowledge conceals philosophical and theological disputes not only what the verb “to forgive” and the noun “forgiveness” mean but also how those realities relate to violence, reconciliation, narrative, memory, and all sorts of other complex matters. In his recent book Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, Matthew Ichihashi Potts proposes that to ask God to forgive us as we forgive is a matter of analogy, not identity, and the temporality and finitude of human existence stand crucially important to our understanding and our practicing forgiveness. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome the Doctor Reverend Potts to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 237: Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Every ethics presumes a sociology. That formula has followed me through nearly twenty-five years of study, and its source text, After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre, has been a constant conversation partner as I have studied and taught. What I haven’t attended to nearly enough is the life of the human being behind After Virtue, but Nathan Pinkoski is here to remedy that. His translation of Emile Perrau-Saussine’s book Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography walks through the where and the who and the what and the how that got MacIntyre asking the questions that have become my own, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome him to the show.

Christian Humanist Profiles 236: Theology of Consent

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 11:00:00 +0000

When we set several theologies next to each other, naming their core claims helps us to make sense of their relationships, even as we grant that more complexity rewards careful reading and study. So without necessarily reducing them, we can speak and write about Calvin’s theology of sovereignty, Schleiermacher’s theology of experience, Bultmann’s theology of kerygma, Thomas Aquinas’s theology of revelation, and so on. In his book Theology of Consent from SacraSage, Jonathan Foster proposes a certain notion of consent, borrowing elements from Rene Girard’s mimetic theory and others from Alfred North Whitehead’s process thought, to make a bid for our understanding of the ways in which we engage with God. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Foster to talk with us about some of his ideas.

Christian Humanist Profiles 235: God after Einstein

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:32:00 +0000

As a student in a good Old Testament Introduction class will be able to tell you, Genesis 1 borrows structures and symbols and maybe even vocabulary from Babylonian texts like Enuma Elish to paint its particular picture of creation. Likewise Proverbs 8 casts world-making in terms of international wisdom traditions, and John 1 appropriates Greek philosophical vocabularies to tell us of the logos who becomes sarx. In his recent book God After Einstein: What’s Really Going on in the Universe, John Haught presents some possibilities for God-talk in light of three great immensities with which modern science concerns itself: the great spans of time from the Big Bang to last week; the great spans of distance that an expanding universe encompasses; and the great spans of complexity that emerge with life, consciousness, and everything that comes with them. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Haught to talk about all that and more.

Christian Humanist Profiles 234: The Right

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Aug 2022 11:04:00 +0000

When my students ask me–and soon enough they learn not to ask me–I always tell them I’m an unrepentant left-winger; after all, I’ve never thought that a Capetian monarch should rule France, so once that question is settled, I’m pretty well in place on that question. Of course, the seating arrangements in the Estats General have come down to us as our lexical inheritance, so I suppose we should talk a bit about the Right. The good news here is that we’ve invited Matt Continetti to the show, whose recent book The Right gives us a good sense of the tensions that characterize conservatism over the last century or so.

Christian Humanist Profiles 233: Reading History with Michael Burger

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:23:00 +0000

Some truths seem self-evident once somebody has spoken them, but someone needs to make that move. So here goes: whenever any of us teaches, that teacher teaches something. Teaching a mechanic how to maintain an automobile’s engine involves things that teaching differential calculus doesn’t, and neither of those is quite the same as teaching Shotokan karate. Michael Burger’s new book Reading History from University of Toronto Press sets out to explore what it might look like to teach history, and Christian Humanist Profiles is happy to welcome him to the show to talk about that book and that enterprise.

Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 232: Bart Ehrman

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 08:59:00 +0000

I’ve had a working hypothesis for quite a while now that stories about the devil tell us about as much about an author’s priorities as anything else. Milton’s devils and especially his version of Satan lead a reader into some profound worries about the powers of rhetoric and reason. Goethe’s Mephistopheles can’t seem to keep up with the ambition of Heinrich Faust, and his attempts at temptation are farcical compared to the grandeur of the great man’s desires. And certainly nobody who’s read C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters can mistake the features of 20th-century life that stand as the Oxford Don’s pet peeves. Bart Ehrman, in his new book Journeys to Heaven and Hell, examines another kind of story, a set of narratives in which the living have a look at what awaits the dead, and discovers a similar dynamic: what’s magnified on the other side tells some fascinating stories about the struggles of this side. And I’m glad that he’s joining us on Christian Humanist Profiles today to talk about some of those stories.

Christian Humanist Profiles 231: Roosevelt Montas

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:55:00 +0000

When I started my undergraduate years at Milligan College in 1995, its interdisciplinary Humanities sequence was already a well-established hallmark of its educational project. In each of my first four semesters we read history and theology and literature and philosophy and all kinds of texts from different eras, always letting each inform the others. Dr. Roosevelt Montas’s journey from the Dominican Republic to New York City differs from my own from Indiana to Georgia, but we share a love for the questions that arise from these books and the life of teaching the same. Christian Humanist Profiles is thrilled to welcome Roosevelt to the show to talk about his new book Rescuing Socrates.

Christian Humanist Profiles 230: Falsehood and Fallacy

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 May 2022 11:45:00 +0000

I’m still a young enough professor that I don’t remember a time before “critical thinking” was a buzzword in the profession. Back in the fall of 2000, when first I started, John Bean convinced me that the goal of core-curriculum classes should be to introduce novices to the practices and standards of the university disciplines, and I still think that’s about right. A decade later, concerns had shifted to helping students engage in metacognition, the examination of one’s own thought-processes, and I’m still a fan of that as well. But some time in the last decade, if you believe some social psychologists, something went seriously wrong in American epistemology through entire limbs of the body politic, and in response a new call went forth: critical thinking became less a bonus and more a bulwark, something to save us from the idiocy that so many of us invite into our eyeballs through our phone screens. Dr. Bethany Kilcrease’s book Falsehood and Fallacy engages in that rescue mission at the undergraduate level, using the tools of history to improve our habits of thinking. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to have Dr. Kilcrease on the show today.

Christian Humanist Profiles 229: My Body Is not a Prayer Request

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 May 2022 09:28:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks with Amy Kenny about her new book "My Body Is not a Prayer Request."

Christian Humanist Profiles 228: Render Unto Caesar

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:17:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with John Dominic Crossan about his new book "Render Unto Caesar."

Christian Humanist Profiles 227: Restless Devices

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Christina Bieber Lake talks with Felicia Wu Song about her recent book "Restless Devices."

Christian Humanist Profiles 226: When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 15:18:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Larry Shapiro about his recent book "When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People."

Christian Humanist Profiles 225: The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks with Mary DeMuth about her recent book "The Most Misunderstood Women of the Bible."

Christian Humanist Profiles 224: Ars Vitae

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 15:46:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn about her recent book "Ars Vitae."

Christian Humanist Profiles 223: Nothing Less than Great

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:48:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Harvey Weingarten about his recent book "Nothing Less than Great."

Christian Humanist Profiles 222: Following the Call

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:49:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Charles Moore about his recent anthology "Following the Call."

Christian Humanist Profiles 221: Dante's Indiana

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer talks with Randy Boyagoda about his recent book "Dante's Indiana."

Christian Humanist Profiles 220: American Democratic Socialism

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 15:49:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Gary Dorrien about his recent book "American Democratic Socialism."

Christian Humanist Profiles 219: Open and Relational Theology

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 15:37:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Thomas Jay Oord about his recent book "Open and Relational Theology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 218: The Great Sex Rescue

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Katie Grubbs speaks with Sheila Gregoire about her book "The Great Sex Rescue."

Christian Humanist Profiles 217: The Herods

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:37:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Bruce Chilton about his recent book "The Herods."

Christian Humanist Profiles 216: Reading the Times

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer talks to Jeff Bilbro about his new book, "Reading the Times."

Christian Humanist Profiles 215: The Faiths of Others

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Aug 2021 15:38:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Tal Howard about his recent book "The Faiths of Others."

Christian Humanist Profiles 214: Harlem Shadows

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Poet James Matthew Wilson joins Michial Farmer to talk about Angelico Press's new edition of Claude McKay's "Harlem Shadows."

Christian Humanist Profiles 213: Tolkien's Modern Reading

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Holly Ordway about her new book "Tolkien's Modern Reading."

Christian Humanist Profiles 212: Thunder in the Soul

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Robert Erlewine about his new collection of Abraham Joshua Heschel’s writings, Thunder in the Soul.

Christian Humanist Profiles 211: When Did Eve Sin?

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Jeffrey Niehaus about his recent book "When Did Eve Sin? The Fall and Biblical Historiography."

Christian Humanist Profiles 210: The Evening Sky

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews the poet Charles Hughes about his latest collection, "The Evening Sky."

Christian Humanist Profiles 209: Solzhenitsyn and American Culture

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson about their recent edited collection "Solzhenitsyn and American Culture."

Christian Humanist Profiles 208: James Matthew Wilson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews James Matthew Wilson about his recent book "The Strangeness of the Good."

Christian Humanist Profiles 207: Gina Dalfonzo

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Gina Dalfonzo about her recent book "The Gospel in Dickens."

Christian Humanist Profiles 206: Tim Perry

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Tim Perry about his recent book "The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Protestant Appreciation."

Christian Humanist Profiles 205: Tripp Fuller

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Tripp Fuller about his recent book "Divine Self-Investment."

Christian Humanist Profiles 204: Te-Li Lau

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Te-Li Lau about his recent book "Defending Shame."

Christian Humanist Profiles 203: Matt Jenson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Matt Jenson about his recent book "Theology in the Democracy of the Dead."

Christian Humanist Profiles 202: Barry Harvey

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Barry Harvey about his recent book "Baptists and the Catholic Tradition."

Christian Humanist Profiles 201: Matthew Emerson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Matthew Emerson about his recent book "Baptists and the Christian Tradition."

Christian Humanist Profiles 200: Kristen Kobes du Mez

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Kristen Kobes du Mez about her recent book "Jesus and John Wayne."

Christian Humanist Profiles 199: Scott Newstok

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Scott Newstok about his recent book "How to Think Like Shakespeare."

Christian Humanist Profiles 198: Abram van Engen

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Abram Van Engen about his recent book "City on a Hill."

Christian Humanist Profiles 197: Symbol and Existence

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews the editors of a new Walker Percy collection called "Symbol and Existence."

Christian Humanist Profiles 196: Christina Bieber Lake

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Katie Grubbs interviews Christina Bieber Lake about her recent book "The Flourishing Teacher."

Christian Humanist Profiles 195: Aimee Byrd

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Katie Grubbs interviews Aimee Byrd.

Christian Humanist Profiles 194: Jason Peters

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Jason Peters.

Christian Humanist Profiles 193: Nick Ripatrazone

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Nick Ripatrazone about his recent book, "Longing for an Absent God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 192: Zena Hitz

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Zena Hitz about her recent book "Lost in Thought."

Christian Humanist Profiles 191: Jessica Hooten Wilson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Jessica Hooten Wilson joins Christina Bieber Lake to talk about her recent First Things article, "How Flannery O'Connor Fought Racism," a response to a recent Paul Elie New Yorker piece.

Christian Humanist Profiles 190: Christina Bieber Lake

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer talks with Christina Bieber Lake about her recent book "Beyond the Story."

Christian Humanist Profiles 189: Sean McGever

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 May 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal talks with Sean McGever about his recent book "Born Again."

Christian Humanist Profiles 188: Oliver Crisp

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Oliver Crisp about his recent book "Analyzing Doctrine."

Christian Humanist Profiles 187: Christoph Markschies

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Christoph Markschies about his recent book "God's Body."

Christian Humanist Profiles 186: John Kloppenborg

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with John Kloppenborg about his recent book "Christ's Associations."

Christian Humanist Profiles 185: David Zahl

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer talks with David Zahl about his recent book "Seculosity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 184: Burke Ingraffia

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer talks with Burke Ingraffia about his recent album "Waves."

Christian Humanist Profiles 183: Dan Koch

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Dan Koch of the You Have Permission podcast about his recent project "End Times Anxiety."

Christian Humanist Profiles 182: Gavin Ortland

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Gavin Ortland.

Christian Humanist Profiles 181: Paul Matzko

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Jay Eldred interviews Paul Matzko about his recent book "Radio Right."

Christian Humanist Profiles 180: N.T. Wright

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews N.T. Wright about his recent book "History and Eschatology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 179: Stephen Fowl

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Stephen Fowl about his recent book "Idolatry."

Christian Humanist Profiles 178: Bruce Chilton

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Bruce Chilton about his recent book "Resurrection Logic."

Christian Humanist Profiles 177: Edward Greenstein

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Ed Greenstein about his recent translation of Job for Yale University Press.

Christian Humanist Profiles 176: Francis J Beckwith

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Francis J Beckwith about his recent book "Never Doubt Thomas."

Christian Humanist Profiles Revisited: Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:13:56 +0000

Yesterday, 12 January 2020, English philosopher Roger Scruton died. Christian Humanist Profiles invites our listeners to remember his thought with this interview on his 2015 book "How to Be a Conservative."

Christian Humanist Profiles 175: Donald Fairbairn

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Donald Fairbairn about his new book "The Story of Creeds and Confessions."

Christian Humanist Profiles 174: Greg Peters

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Greg Peters about his new book "The Monkhood of All Believers."

Christian Humanist Profiles 173: David Lyle Jeffrey

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews David Lyle Jeffrey about his new book "Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination."

Christian Humanist Profiles 172: Thomas Kidd

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Thomas Kidd about his new book "Who Is an Evangelical?"

Christian Humanist Profiles 171: W.H. Bellinger

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews W.H. Bellinger about his new book "Psalms as a Grammar for Faith."

Christian Humanist Profiles 170: Phillip Cary

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Phillip Cary about his new book "The Meaning of Proestant Theology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 169: David Bentley Hart

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews David Bentley Hart about his new book "That All Shall Be Saved."

Christian Humanist Profiles 168: W. Brian Shelton

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews W. Brian Shelton about his recent book.

Christian Humanist Profiles 167: Ian Christopher Levy

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Ian Christopher Levy about his recent book.

Christian Humanist Profiles 166: Chris DeRose

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Chris DeRose about his recent book.

Christian Humanist Profiles 165: Christ and the Kingdoms of Men

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews David Innes about his recent book "Christ and the Kingdoms of Men."

Christian Humanist Profiles 164: Stories in the End

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Danny Anderson interviews Jay Eldred about his recent book "Stories in the End."

Christian Humanist Profiles 163: Political Visions and Illusions

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews David Koyzis about his recent book "Political Visions and Illusions."

Christian Humanist Profiles 162: What Are Biblical Values?

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews John J. Collins about his new book "What Are Biblical Values?"

Christian Humanist Profiles 161: Resisting Throwaway Culture

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Charlie Camosy about his new book "Resisting Throwaway Culture."

Christian Humanist Profiles 159: Good Arguments

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Richard Holland about his recent book "Good Arguments."

Christian Humanist Profiles 158: The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Christina Bieber Lake about the re-release of her book "The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor."

Christian Humanist Profiles 157: Kathy Barbini

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Kathy Barbini about an upcoming film.

Christian Humanist Profiles 156: The Art of Christian Reflection

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Heidi Hornik about her recent book "The Art of Christian Reflection."

Christian Humanist Profiles 155: Andrew Root

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Andrew Root about his recent book.

Christian Humanist Profiles 154: Jacob Riyeff

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Jacob Riyeff about his recent translation of Benedict's Rule.

Christian Humanist Profiles 153: Taste and See

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

An interview with Margaret Feinberg about her recent book "Taste and See."

Christian Humanist Profiles 152: On Being Awesome

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Nick Riggle about his recent book "On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck."

Christian Humanist Profiles 151: The Craft of University Teaching

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Peter Lindsay about his recent book "The Craft of University Teaching."

Christian Humanist Profiles 150: Modern Technology and the Human Future

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Craig M. Gay about his recent book "Modern Technology and the Human Future."

Christian Humanist Profiles 149: Into the Deep

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Abigail Rine Favale about her recent book "Into the Deep."

Christian Humanist Profiles 148: Trinity and Knowing

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Vern Poythress about his recent book "Trinity and Knowing."

Christian Humanist Profiles 147: The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Carole Vanderhoof about her recent book "The Gospel in Dorothy L. Sayers."

Christian Humanist Profiles 146: Remembering James Cone

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Adam Clark about James Cone, with whom Adam studied at Union Seminary.

Christian Humanist Profiles 145: A Slow and Sudden God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Chris Maxwell about his recent book "A Slow and Sudden God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 144: God Can't

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Thomas Jay Oord about his recent book "God Can't."

Christian Humanist Profiles 143: On Reading Well

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Jay Eldred interviews Karen Swallow Prior about her recent book "On Reading Well."

Christian Humanist Profiles 142: The Road to Edmond

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Tripp Fuller about his 2018 film "The Road to Edmond."

Christian Humanist Profiles 141: Kristen Padilla

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Carla Ewert interviews Kristen Padilla about her recent book "Now That I'm Called."

Christian Humanist Profiles 140: Rachel Marie

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Rachel Marie about her recent album "False Foundations."

Christian Humanist Profiles 139: Honey of Souls

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Derek Olsen about his recent book "The Honey of Souls."

Christian Humanist Profiles 138: Ancient Roots with Kenneth Stewart

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal chats with Kenneth Stewart about his recent book "In Search of Ancient Roots" and other things.

Christian Humanist Profiles 137: Squint at 25

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour interview Steve Taylor about his 1993 album "Squint."

Christian Humanist Profiles 136: A New Gospel for Women

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Dr. Kristin DuMez about her 2015 book A New Gospel for Women: Katherine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism.

Christian Humanist Profiles 135: A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Jason M. Baxter about his new book, "A Beginner's Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy."

Christian Humanist Profiles 134: Retrieving Eternal Generation

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Fred Sanders about his new book, "Retrieving Eternal Generation"

Christian Humanist Profiles 133: Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Gregory Alan Thornbury about his new book, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?"

Christian Humanist Profiles 132: The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Philip Ryken about his new book, "The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth."

Christian Humanist Profiles 131: Theologies of the American Revivalists

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Robert W. Caldwell about his new book "Theologies of the American Revivalists."

Christian Humanist Profiles 130: Paul: A Biography

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews N.T. Wright about his new book "Paul: A Biography."

Christian Humanist Profiles 129: Resurrecting Easter

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews John Dominic Crossan about his new book "Resurrecting Easter."

Christian Humanist Profiles 128: Why Liberalism Failed

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Patrick Deneen about his new book "Why Liberalism Failed."

Christian Humanist Profiles 127: The New Testament

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews David Bentley Hart about his new translation of the New Testament.

Christian Humanist Profiles 126: Surviving the Bible

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Christian Piatt about his new book "Surviving the Bible."

Christian Humanist Profiles 125: Christianity at the Crossroads

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Michael Kruger about his new book "Christianity at the Crossroads."

Christian Humanist Profiles 124: Victor Davis Hanson

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Jordan Poss interviews Victor Davis Hanson.

Christian Humanist Profiles 123: Keith Getty

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Keith Getty.

Christian Humanist Profiles 122: Kevin Twit

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Kevin Twit.

Christian Humanist Profiles 121: The Science of Virtue

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Charles Hackney interviews Mark McMinn about his recent book "The Science of Virtue."

Christian Humanist Profiles 120: Renegade

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Andrea Grosso Ciponte and Dacia Palmerino about their graphic biography of Martin Luther "Renegade."

Christian Humanist Profiles 119: Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Terrence Kardong about his recent book "Saint Columban: His Life, Rule, and Legacy."

Christian Humanist Profiles 118: Becoming Truly Human

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews filmmaker Nathan Jacobs about the forthcoming film "Becoming Truly Human."

Christian Humanist Profiles 117: Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Amanda Hackney interviews Ruth Tucker about her recent book, "Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation."

Christian Humanist Profiles 116: The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Jonathan Pennington about his recent book "The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing."

Christian Humanist Profiles 115: Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Michial Farmer about his recent book "Imagination and Ideealism in John Updike's Fiction."

Christian Humanist Profiles 114: The Church, Authority, and Foucault

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Steven G. Ogden about his recent book "The Church, Authority, and Foucault."

Christian Humanist Profiles 113: The Essentials of Christian Thought

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Aug 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Dan Dawson interviews Roger Olson about his recent book "The Essentials of Christian Thought."

Christian Humanist Profiles 112: The Triumph of Empire

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Michael Kulikowski about his recent book "The Triumph of Empire."

Christian Humanist Profiles 111: The Deep Things of God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Fred Sanders about the second edition of "The Deep Things of God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 110: Wendell Berry and Higher Education

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Jeffrey Bilbro about his recent book, "Wendell Berry and Higher Education."

Christian Humanist Profiles 109: Destroyer of the Gods

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Larry Hurtado about his recent book, "Destroyer of the Gods."

Christian Humanist Profiles 108: The Mestizo Augustine

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Justo Gonzalez about his recent book, "The Mestizo Augustine."

Christian Humanist Profiles 107: A Man Attested by God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Daniel Kirk about his recent book "A Man Attested by God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 106: C. Ivan Spencer

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 10 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal chats with C. Ivan Spencer.

Christian Humanist Profiles 105: The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Eric Hall about his recent book "The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 104: Miroslav Volf

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Ed Song and Sameer Yadav chat with Yale theologian Miroslav Volf.

Christian Humanist Profiles 103: Cancer Is Funny

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Jason Micheli about his recent book "Cancer Is Funny."

Christian Humanist Profiles 102: The Uncontrolling Love of God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Thomas Jay Oord about his recent book "The Uncontrolling Love of God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 101: The Benedict Option

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Rod Dreher about his recent book "The Benedict Option."

Christian Humanist Profiles 100: Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:00:00 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Robert Benne about his recent book "Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics."

Christian Humanist Profiles 99: Adventures in Evangelical Civility

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:00:00 +0000

Todd Pedlar interviews Richard J. Mouw about "Adventures in Evangelical Civility"

Christian Humanist Profiles 98: Icons in the Western Church

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Jeana Visel about "Icons in the Western Church."

Christian Humanist Profiles 97: Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:13:56 +0000

Charles Hackney interviews R.R. Reno about his recent book "Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society."

Christian Humanist Profiles 96: The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Daniel Blue about his recent book "The Making of Friedrich Nietzsche."

Christian Humanist Profiles 95: The Day the Revolution Began

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews N.T. Wright about his recent book "The Day the Revolution Began."

Christian Humanist Profiles 94: The End of Protestantism

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Dec 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Coyle Neal interviews Peter J. Leithart about his recent book "The End of Protestantism."

Christian Humanist Profiles 93: Confident Pluralism

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews John Inazu about his recent book "Confident Pluralism."

Christian Humanist Profiles 92: Biblical Authority after Babel

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Kevin Vanhoozer about his recent book "Biblical Authority after Babel."

Christian Humanist Profiles 91: Triune God

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Fred Sanders about his recent book "The Triune God."

Christian Humanist Profiles 90: The Political World of Bob Dylan

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Danny Anderson interviews Jeff Taylor about his recent book "The Political World of Bob Dylan."

Christian Humanist Profiles 89: Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Chris Armstrong about his recent book "Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians."

Christian Humanist Profiles 88: Commonwealth and Covenant

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Marcia Pally about her recent book "Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality."

Christian Humanist Profiles 87: Kierkegaard: A Single Life

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Stephen Backhouse about his recent book, "Kierkegaard: A Single Life."

Christian Humanist Profiles 86: Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Richard Hays about hs recent book, "Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels."

Christian Humanist Profiles 85: Science Fiction Theology

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Alan Gregory about hs recent book, "Science Fiction Theology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 84: Ontic Ethics

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews H.G. Wright about hs recent book, "Ontic Ethics."

Christian Humanist Profiles 83: Coen: Framing Religion in an Amoral Order

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Danny Anderson interviews Elijah Siegler about the recent book, "Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order."

Christian Humanist Profiles 82: How to Survive the Apocalypse

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Alyssa Wilkinson and Robert Joustra about their recent book, "How to Survive the Apocalypse."

Christian Humanist Profiles 81: Reading Matthew with Monks

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs talks with Derek Olsen about his recent book "Reading Matthew with Monks."

Christian Humanist Profiles 80: A Person as a Lifetime

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Stephanie Semler about her recent book, A Person as a Lifetime, an Aristotelian exploration of the philosophy of personhood.

Christian Humanist Profiles 79: Reviving Old Scratch

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 11:13:56 +0000

In his latest book, Reviving Old Scratch: Demons and the Devil for Doubters and the Disenchanted, Richard Beck argues that modern Christians should restore a belief in the forces of evil. Michial Farmer interviews him for this episode of Christian Humanist Profiles.

Christian Humanist Profiles 78: What Is a Public Education, and Why We Need It

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Walter Feinberg on his new book "What Is a Public Education and Why We Need It.

Christian Humanist Profiles 77: The Study Quran

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Caner Dagli, one of the General Editors of the new Harper Study Quran.

Christian Humanist Profiles 76: Theater of War

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Bryan Doerries about his recent book "The Theater of War."

Christian Humanist Profiles 75: The Radical Pursuit of Rest

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews John Koessler about his recent book "The Radical Pursuit of Rest."

Christian Humanist Profiles 74: A Charlie Brown Religion

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Stephen J. Lind about his recent book "A Charlie Brown Religion."

Christian Humanist Profiles 73: Madness

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Charles Hackney interviews Heather Vacek about her recent book "Madness: American Protestant Responses to Mental Illness."

Christian Humanist Profiles 72: From Nature to Creation

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:13:00 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Norman Wirzba about his recent book "From Nature to Creation."

Christian Humanist Profiles 71: Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Stephen Prothero about his recent book "Why the Liberals Win the Culture Wars, Even when They Lose Elections."

Christian Humanist Profiles 70: How to Be a Conservative

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Roger Scruton about his recent book "How to Be a Conservative."

Christian Humanist Profiles 69: Unleashing Opportunity

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Brit Stack interviews Stephanie Summers about her recent book "Unleashing Opportunity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 68: Letters of Fire

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Father Thomas Esposito about his recent book "Letters of Fire."

Christian Humanist Profiles 67: Becoming Human

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews James Lorentzen about his recent book "Becoming Human."

Christian Humanist Profiles 66: The Hong Kierkegaard Library

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer takes a tour of the Hong Kierkegaard Library with Eileen Shimota and Jamie Lorentzen.

Christian Humanist Profiles 65: The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour has a long conversation about Jesus, Jesus, and more Jesus with Tripp Fuller as they discuss Fuller's new book "The Homebrewed Christianity Guide to Jesus: Lord, Liar, Lunatic, or Just Freakin' Awesome?"

Christian Humanist Profiles 64: Augustine on the Christian Life

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs talks with Gerald Bray about his recent book "Augustine on the Christian Life."

Christian Humanist Profiles 63: Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Eric McLuhan about his recent book "Sensus Communis, Synesthesia, and the Soul."

Christian Humanist Profiles 62: The Paul Debate

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour welcomes N.T. Wright back to the show to talk about his recent book "The Paul Debate."

Christian Humanist Profiles 61: A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War.

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Joe Loconte about his recent book "A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War."

Christian Humanist Profiles 59: Jesus Behaving Badly

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Mark Strauss about his recent book "Jesus Behaving Badly."

Christian Humanist Profiles 58: The Professor's Puzzle

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Michael Lawson about his recent book "The Professor's Puzzle."

Christian Humanist Profiles Special Release: In Memory of Roger Lundin

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:13:56 +0000

To honor the life and work of Wheaton Professor of English Roger Lundin, who died on Thursday, 12 November 2015, Christian Humanist Profiles presents Michial Farmer's 2014 interview with him on his book "Beginning with the Word."

Christian Humanist Profiles 57: The Work of Theology

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Stanley Hauerwas about his recent book "The Work of Theology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 56: Paul's Divine Christology

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Chris Tilling about his recent book "Paul's Divine Christology."

Christian Humanist Profiles 55: The Pastor as Public Theologian

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Kevin Vanhoozer about his recent book "The Pastor as Public Theologian."

Christian Humanist Profiles 54: The Abbey

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Brit Stack interviews Father James Martin about his novel "The Abbey."

Christian Humanist Profiles 53: Cosmic Defiance

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews David Crowe about his book "Cosmic Defiance: Updike’s Kierkegaard and the Maples Stories."

Christian Humanist Profiles 52: A Christian Guide to the Classics

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Leland Ryken about his book "A Christian Guide to the Classics."

Christian Humanist Profiles 51: The Church in Exile

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Lee Beach about his new book "The Church in Exile."

Christian Humanist Profiles 50: The Poetry of John Milton

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 31 Aug 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Gordon Teskey about his new book "The Poetry of John Milton."

Christian Humanist Profiles 49: Beyond the Abortion Wars

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Charlie Camosy about his new book "Beyond the Abortion Wars."

Christian Humanist Profiles 48: A Fellowship of Differents

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Scot McKnight about his new book "A Fellowship of Differents."

Christian Humanist Profiles 47: A Holy Happy Hour

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Michael P. Foley about his new book "Drinking with the Saints."

Christian Humanist Profiles 46: Lewis and Tolkien and Community

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Colin Duriez about his new book "The Oxford Inklings."

Christian Humanist Profiles 45: Literature as Spiritual Experience

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Claude le Fustec about her new book "Northrop Frye and American Fiction."

Christian Humanist Profiles 44: Tragic Modernities

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Miriam Leonard about her new book "Tragic Modernities."

Christian Humanist Profiles 43: Paul and the Trinity

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Wesley Hill about his new book "Paul and the Trinity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 42: Learning to Die in London

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Katie Grubbs interviews Amy Appleford about her new book "Learning to Die in London".

Christian Humanist Profiles 40: How Dante Can Save your Life

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 25 May 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Rod Dreher about his new book "How Dante Can Save your Life".

Christian Humanist Profiles 39: Defending Substitution

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 May 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Simon Gathercole about his new book "Defending Substitution: An Essay on Atonement in Paul".

Christian Humanist Profiles 38: Machiavelli: A Portrait

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 11 May 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Christopher Celenza about "Machiavelli: A Portrait," Celenza's recent biography of the revolutionary Florentine political thinker.

Christian Humanist Profiles 37: God's Planet

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 04 May 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Todd Pedlar interviews Dr. Owen Gingerich, author of "God's Planet," published by Harvard University Press in 2014, on issues of science and religious belief.

Christian Humanist Profiles 36: Tolkien's Sacramental Vision

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Craig Bernthal about his recent book "Tolkien's Sacramental Vision."

Christian Humanist Profiles 35: House of Cards

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Homebrewed Christianity's Tripp Fuller about the Netflix series "House of Cards."

Christian Humanist Profiles 34: Called to the Life of the Mind

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Todd Pedlar talks with Richard Mouw about his recent book, "Called to the Life of the Mind."

Christian Humanist Profiles 33: Simply Good News

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with N.T. Wright about his recent book, "Simply Good News."

Christian Humanist Profiles 32: Reformed Catholicity

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs talks with Michael Allen about his recent book (with Scott Swain), "Reformed Catholicity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 31: The Divine Magician

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Peter Rollins about his recent book "The Divine Magician."

Christian Humanist Profiles 30: Revelation as Testimony

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour talks with Mats Wahlberg about his recent book "Revelation as Testimony: A Philosophical-Theological Study."

Christian Humanist Profiles 29: Faith Speaking Understanding

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Kevin Vanhoozer about his new book "Faith Speaking Understanding."

Christian Humanist Profiles 28: Ice Axes for Frozen Seas

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Walter Brueggemann about his 2014 book "Ice Axes for Frozen Seas."

Christian Humanist Profiles 27: The Pietist Vision of Christian Education

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Chris Gehrz about the recent book "The Pietist Vision of Christian Education," which Chris edited.

Christian Humanist Profiles 26: Damaged Goods

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Marie Hause interviews Dianna Anderson about her recent book "Damaged Goods: New Perspectives in Christian Purity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 25: Hobbit Party

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Jay Richards about "The Hobbit Party."

Christian Humanist Profiles 24: Beyond Secular Order

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews John Milbank on his 2013 book Beyond Secular Order.

Christian Humanist Profiles 23: Theater of War

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:13:56 +0000

Heather Ordover and Nathan Gilmour, in another Craft Lit/Christian Humanist Profiles crossover, interview Bryan Doerries about Theater of War and his other projects bringing ancient dramatic texts to modern American trauma.

Christian Humanist Profiles 22: Reading Backwards

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Richard Hays about his 2014 book "Reading Backwards."

Christian Humanist Profiles 21: Making Sense of it All

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Todd Pedlar interviews Thomas V. Morris about his 1992 book, "Making Sense of it All."

Christian Humanist Profiles 20: Pascal the Philosopher

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Graeme Hunter about his latest book, "Pascal the Philosopher: An Introduction."

Christian Humanist Profiles 19: An Anxious Age

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Dr. Joseph Bottum about his latest book, An Anxious Age.

Christian Humanist Profiles 18: Prostitutes, Virgins, and Mothers

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Victoria Reynolds Farmer interviews Dr. Paula Trimble Familetti about her recent book "Prostitutes, Virgins, and Mothers."

Christian Humanist Profiles 17: Building a Better Teacher

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 11:13:56 +0000

In a special crossover event with Craft Lit, Nathan Gilmour and Heather Ordover interview Elizabeth Green on her recent book "Building a Better Teacher."

Christian Humanist Profiles 16: Fairy Tale Levity

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Daniel Gabelman on his recent book "George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity."

Christian Humanist Profiles 15: A Christian Survival Guide

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews interviews Ed Cyzewski on his recent book "A Christian Survival Guide."

Christian Humanist Profiles 14: Philosophical Aesthetics for the Christian Thinker

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews John Dadosky on his recent book "The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty: A Lonergan Approach."

Christian Humanist Profiles 13: A Radical Critique of Heidegger

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews S.J. McGrath on his recent book "Heidegger: A (Very) Critical Introduction."

Christian Humanist Profiles 12: Roger Lundin on Structuralism

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Roger Lundin about his recent book "Beginning with the Word."

Christian Humanist Profiles 11: Marvin Wilson on our Hebraic Heritage

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Danny Anderson interviews Marvin Wilson about his 2014 book "Exploring our Hebraic Heritage."

Christian Humanist Profiles 10: Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Merold Westphal about his 2014 book "Kierkegaard's Concept of Faith."

Christian Humanist Profiles 9: Hauerwas: A Very Critical Introduction

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Nicholas Healy about his 2014 book "Hauerwas: A (Very) Critical Introduction."

Christian Humanist Profiles 8: Approaching the End

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Stanley Hauerwas about his 2014 book "Approaching the End."

Christian Humanist Profiles 7: Prophecies of the Posthuman

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Christina Bieber Lake about her recent book "Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood."

Christian Humanist Profiles 6: Reading the Bible with Ed Cyzewski

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Ed Cyzewski about his recent books "UnFollowers" and "The Good News of Revelation."

Christian Humanist Profiles 5: The End of Our Exploring

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Matthew Lee Anderson about his 2013 book "The End of Our Exploring."

Christian Humanist Profiles 4: Job through the Ages

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Mark Larrimore about his 2013 book "Job through the Ages."

Christian Humanist Profiles 3: Martial Arts and Virtue Ethics

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:13:56 +0000

Nathan Gilmour interviews Charles Hackney about his 2010 book "Martial Virtues: Lessons in Wisdom, Courage, and Compassion from the World's Greatest Warriors."

Christian Humanist Profiles 2: John Wesley's Passion for Holiness

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:13:56 +0000

David Grubbs interviews Fred Sanders on his 2013 book, "Wesley on the Christian Life: The Heart Renewed in Love."

Christian Humanist Profiles 1: Flannery O'Connor's Theology of Disability

thechristianhumanist@gmail.com (The Christian Humanists) — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 12:13:56 +0000

Michial Farmer interviews Timothy Basselin on his 2013 book, "Flannery O'connor: Writing a Theology of Disabled Humanity."