Christian Humanist Profiles

Jan 27 2025 262 ep. 58 mins 2.8k
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Interviews with Christian intellectuals, faithful thinkers, and other human beings writing well.

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Christian Humanist Profiles 262: Richard Detweiler

Jan 27 2025 59 mins  

Christian Humanist Profiles 261: Phillip Cary

Nov 25 2024 48 mins  
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 have had good ones: in the historical moment, confessions and catechisms and boundary-documents of all sorts were proliferating among Protestant communities, and one way for a unity movement to make progress might be to pare away the

Christian Humanist Profiles 260: Colin Seale

Nov 04 2024 57 mins  
Among education writers, the phrase “critical thinking” can run from nebulous notions to utter ciphers. Few will disagree that critical thinking is good and needed, but relatively few will agree about what it is in the first place. Colin Seale has not only written about critical thinking in more precise language but established institutions for developing critical thinking as a

Christian Humanist Profiles 259: Katherine Dell

Jul 22 2024 62 mins  
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 Bible but also the world that the Bible gives us, to read the canonical text as world-generating as well as world-contingent. As I continued in the discipline, another world emerged, namely the world that teaches us to pose certain

Christian Humanist Profiles 258: Ben Witherington

Jun 03 2024 62 mins  
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 connotation. We can learn a fair bit about public life and public speech just tracing the course and changes and counter-thrusts surrounding words and phrases like fake news, alt-right, social justice, and woke. Sola Scriptura goes back cen

Christian Humanist Profiles 257: David Jasper

Apr 08 2024 63 mins  
Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or another. But etymological roots don’t go far making sense of the fascination and the division and the devotion and the emotion that literature and scriptures bring forth in readers of all sorts. David Jasper has spent a car

Christian Humanist Profiles 256: Jeffrey Bilbro & David Henreckson

Mar 25 2024 62 mins  
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 far as I can tell, it’s mainly a collection of magic spells for the court sorcerers to draw from when they need this or that kind of wizardry. And on the other end of things, in our little corner of the twenty-first century, some coll

Christian Humanist Profile 255: Michael F. Bird

Mar 11 2024 32 mins  
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 different reasons, some writers in Biblical studies seem bent on discovering, naming, and insisting on a particular significance for any text that looks like, sounds like, works like, and otherwise resembles canonical and orthodox and h

Christian Humanist Profiles 254: Gary Dorrien

Mar 04 2024 70 mins  
History as a practice examines the contingent. Everything that leaves evidence of having-happened might have happened otherwise, and nothing that has come to be except that it displaced other things that might have been. In the realm of Black religion in the United States, the what-if questions and counterfactuals wonder about a seventy-year-old Dr. King, to be sure, but they also

Christian Humanist Profiles 253: Eckart Frahm

Jan 01 2024 63 mins  
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 on his way to the grand showdown between the Persians and the Greek-speaking city-states. Some of us have run into their legendary figures Sardanapallus and Semiramis in Dante or Byron. And of course some of us still aren’t sure how