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 hav...
Christian Humanist Profiles 260: Colin Seale
Nov 04 2024 • 00:57:20
Among education writers, the phrase “critical thinking” can run from nebulous notions to utter ciphers. Few will disagree that critical thinking is g...
Christian Humanist Profiles 259: Katherine Dell
Jul 22 2024 • 01:02:53
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 ...
Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington
Jun 03 2024 • 01:02:14
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 connotat...
Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper
Apr 08 2024 • 01:03:46
Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alp...
Christian Humanist Profiles 256: Jeffrey Bilbro & David Henreckson
Mar 25 2024 • 01:02:05
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 f...
Christian Humanist Profile 255: Michael F. Bird
Mar 11 2024 • 00:32:23
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 differe...
Christian Humanist Profiles 254: Gary Dorrien
Mar 04 2024 • 01:10:19
History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has...
Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Eckart Frahm
Jan 01 2024 • 01:03:37
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 o...
Christian Humanist Profiles 252: Trevor Laurence
Dec 05 2023 • 01:02:39
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 transla...
