Christian Humanist Profiles

Philoctetes is not the best-known Sophocles tragedy, but its questions stick with me.  When the title character insists ... Read more

What’s on the table when we claim that a newly-discovered text came from a Biblical author?  To answer that question mig... Read more

Tell me where you spend your Sunday mornings, and then where your grandmother spent her Sunday mornings, and I’ll ventur... Read more

“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.”  When I first read those words from ... Read more

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... Read more

Somethin’s brewin’ on the podcast.  I wonder what it could be?  If you’ve seen the stage musical version of “The Cotton ... Read more

The book I expected to read would present all the ways in which human communities in the digital age are dealing with a ... Read more

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 more

I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Chr... Read more

 Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous.  N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinh... Read more