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...
Christian Humanist Profiles 274: Bethany Mannon
Jul 21 2025 • 01:02:39
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. ...
Christian Humanist Profiles 273: Joy Vaughan
Jul 14 2025 • 00:56:07
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 neve...
Christian Humanist Profiles 272: Rebekah Spera & David M. Peña-Guzman
Jul 07 2025 • 01:07:54
When Amaziah, Priest of the Shrine of Bethel, confronts the prophet Amos for conspiring against King Amaziah, Amos replies with a very specific denia...
Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Rhodri Lewis
Jun 30 2025 • 01:04:03
Living among human beings gives an observant person plenty of occasions to think about delusion. Whether one watches the young revolutionary or the a...
Christian Humanist Profiles 270: Andrew Perrin
Jun 23 2025 • 01:04:10
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 t...
Christian Humanist Profiles 269: Gerald Bray
Jun 16 2025 • 01:03:12
Every story of thought and thinking runs into its own kinds of problems. Progressive accounts do well showing how predecessors were not quite as shar...
Christian Humanist Profiles 268: Philip Thomas
May 26 2025 • 01:07:16
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 ...
Christian Humanist Profiles 267: Debra Band & Menachem Fisch
May 19 2025 • 01:08:26
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 traged...
Christian Humanist Profiles 266: Philip Jenkins
Mar 24 2025 • 01:00:15
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Growing up under that Constitutional ...
