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Christian Humanist Profiles 275: The Improvising Teacher
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 do with the measuring instruments and…
Christian Humanist Profiles 274: I Grew Up in the Church
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. But what if you ask…
Christian Humanist Profiles 273: Phenomenal Phenomena
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 never…
Christian Humanist Profiles 272: Professional Philosophy and its Myths
When Amaziah, Priest of the Shrine of Bethel, confronts the prophet Amos for conspiring against King Amaziah, Amos replies with a very specific denial: “I am no prophet, nor a…
Christian Humanist Profiles 271: Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
Living among human beings gives an observant person plenty of occasions to think about delusion. Whether one watches the young revolutionary or the aging politician, the conspiracy theorist or the…
Christian Humanist Profiles 270: Lost Words and Forgotten Worlds
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 the way to our own…
Christian Humanist Profiles 269: Athens and Jerusalem
Every story of thought and thinking runs into its own kinds of problems. Progressive accounts do well showing how predecessors were not quite as sharp or as moral as we…
Christian Humanist Profiles 268: Hope for a Tree
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 that image,…
Christian Humanist Profiles 267: Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living
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 tragedy Oedipus Tyrannous, Oedipus…
Christian Humanist Profiles 266: Kingdoms of this World
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Growing up under that Constitutional law, even as an amendment, gave me the idea…
Christian Humanist Profiles 265: Against Worldview
When I got serious about Christian discipleship in the early nineties, Christian worldview was in the air. The menace of secular humanism loomed large, and when I enrolled at Milligan…
Christian Humanist Profiles 264: Thriving on a Riff
In 1917 four seismic shocks rocked the human species: in Russia, the Bolshevik Revolution brought a specter from Europe into the center of the world’s most expansive land empire. …
Christian Humanist Profiles 263: Words for Conviviality
With the obvious exception of Plato’s Phaedrus, really old books don’t spend much time on technology. Perhaps the tools didn’t change fast enough. Perhaps their writing materials were expensive enough…
The Christian Feminist Podcast, Episode #200: Retrospective
In this 200th episode of the CFP, Christina, Victoria, Katie, Marie, Laurie, Alexis, and Sarah look back at the show’s ten-plus year history and discuss how it’s changed, and how…
Christian Humanist Profiles 262: The Evidence the Liberal Arts Needs
Liberty has always carried tricky questions with it. Most folks in 2025 would agree that human beings should have liberty, but how one becomes free persists as a debate. …