Some truths seem self-evident once somebody has spoken them, but someone needs to make that move. So here goes: whenever any of us teaches, that teacher teaches something. Teaching a mechanic how to maintain an automobile’s engine involves things that teaching differential calculus doesn’t, and neither of those is quite the same as teaching Shotokan karate. Michael Burger’s new book Reading History from University of Toronto Press sets out to explore what it might look like to teach history, and Christian Humanist Profiles is happy to welcome him to the show to talk about that book and that enterprise.
Taken down to their etymological components, scriptures are any written texts and literature is any human craft involving letters, usually of some alphabet or...
Nathan Gilmour interviews David Bentley Hart about his new book "That All Shall Be Saved."
Danny Anderson interviews Jay Eldred about his recent book "Stories in the End."