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...
Christian Humanist Profiles 247: The Secret Gospel of Mark
Apr 17 2023 • 01:07:16
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 ...
Christian Humanist Profiles 246: Matthew Milliner
Apr 03 2023 • 00:58:56
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 Ch...
Christian Humanist Profiles 245: Ben Witherington & Jason Myers
Feb 13 2023 • 01:04:31
“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 a...
Christian Humanist Profiles 244: Paul Blaschko
Jan 30 2023 • 01:04:11
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...
Christian Humanist Profiles 243: Bren DuBay
Jan 16 2023 • 00:57:05
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 an...
Christian Humanist Profiles 242: Peter K. Fallon
Jan 09 2023 • 00:59:53
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 struct...
Christian Humanist Profiles 241: Walter Brueggemann
Dec 26 2022 • 00:46:13
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 Te...
Christian Humanist Profiles 240: Eric Vanden Eykel
Dec 19 2022 • 00:57:01
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 a...
Christian Humanist Profiles 239: Shaun C. Brown
Dec 12 2022 • 01:05:45
Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous. N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before C...
