The Christian Humanist Podcast

Michial Farmer and Danny Anderson kick off the network's annual Halloween crossover with a discussion of John Carpenter's seminal slasher Halloween. 

Michial Farmer and David Grubbs talk about John Updike's long-ish poem "Americana," airports, and hotel rooms.  Yes, Farmer spelled the name of the podcast wrong in the cover art. 

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

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

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

We're back! Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about a 1979 episode of Sears Radio Theater called, appropriately enough, "The Sabbatical." Come listen as we encounter A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH when Melville Pauley winds his way through Vienna. 

Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller to talk about the term "deconstruction" and how its connotations shifted in the twenty-first century. Gilmour keeps drifting back to the twentieth century as Miller adn Dawson try to get him with the times.

Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Blake Miller in the Christian Humanist Radio Network crossover event on The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, the Christianity Today podcast series. This squad digs into the philosophy of journalism and history-making, posing how and when and why questions about the project.

Nathan Gilmour is joined by Dan Dawson and Victoria Reynolds Farmer in the network's annual Halloween crossover, discussing Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Descent Into the Maelstrom."

In this year's season finale, Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the Grimm Brothers and their fairy tale "Brother and Sister."

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

Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about Sixpence None the Richer's self-titled 1997 album. Yes, the one with "Kiss Me."

David Grubbs dives into St. Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" to talk to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria.

The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revisit a conversation about offices as sites of personality and interaction.

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about our relationship to the saints.

Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about their regular habits of prayer.

Michial Farmer talks with Victoria Reynolds Farmer and Todd Pedlar about John Coltrane's album "A Love Supreme."

Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs talk about the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, in this episode from 2016.

David Grubbs talks with special guests about the film "Unbreakable."

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about some epistles from St. Ignatius of Antioch.

Michial Farmer talks with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs about G.K. Chesterton's novel "The Man Who Was Thursday."

Nathan Gilmour takes Michial Farmer and David Grubbs on a trip down nostalgia lane to mark 11 years and 300 episodes of The Christian Humanist Podcast.

David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about Basil the Great's text "On the Right Use of Greek Literature."

Michial Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about Walter Benjamin's essay "Unpacking my Library."

Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the strange migration of critical theory from graduate school classrooms to social media. Along the way they ponder whether the phrase "critical theory" itself has a definite meaning.

David Grubbs talks with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about about the Venerable Bede's sermon upon the beheading of John the Baptist.

Join the CHP crew for a throwback conversation about an Old English poem, and be ready for our season premier, coming soon, on one of the intellectual giants of medieval England.

On a recent City of Man episode Nathan Gilmour mentioned John Locke's "Letter Concerning Toleration" in a conversation about cancel culture. Join the CHP crew for our conversation on that letter.

The way 2020 is going, synthetic dinosaurs are just around the corner, so join the CHP crew for a throwback to our convesation on 1994's film Jurassic Park.

The CHP finishes our conversation about Jedediah Purdy's 1999 book "For Common Things."

The CHP continues to revisit Jedediah Purdy's 1999 book "For Common Things."

With the DNC and GOP conventions around the corner, the CHP revisits Jedediah Purdy's 1999 book "For Common Things."

Enjoy a summer rewind and revisit a conversation about some H.P. Lovecraft stories.

Revisit the Christian Humanist Podcast's conversation about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous epistle.

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

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