For Your Consideration

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. I’ve been thinking about tables of late, literally and figuratively. Chiefly, what I’ve had in mind is the table as an emblem of hospitality, a...

In this installment, you can listen to week six of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” in which he reviews key episodes in the ministry of Jesus as presented in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

In this installment, you can listen to the sixth session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class talked about how we inhabit a place through attentiveness and self-directed navigation, including a discussion of how our disposition or way of being in the world shapes our experience of place. The latter part of the class...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. It was my pleasure to interview Matthew Lee Anderson for our podcast last month. I’ll start with the usual introductory matters. Matt is an Ass...

In this installment, you can listen to the fifth week of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” in which he discusses the ministry of Jesus as presented in the first several chapters of Mark’s gospel. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.sub...

In this installment, you can listen to the fifth session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class explores the how the relationship between the body and the experience of place has been splintered by new media technologies. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access t...

In this installment, you can listen to the fourth week of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” in which he discusses the gospel accounts of John the Baptist and the opening of Jesus’s public ministry. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.s...

In this installment, you can listen to the fourth session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” The class briefly discusses nostalgia as peculiarly modern symptom of our displacement as well as the body as the focus or our experience of place. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. In our “Readings in the Christian Imagination,” reading group this past Monday, we had the pleasure of hosting Zena Hitz for a time of discussi...

In this installment, you can listen to the third week of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” in which he walks his class through the ministry of John the Baptist as presented in the gospel accounts. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.su...

In this installment, you can listen to the third session of Michael Sacasas’s Director’s Class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” In this session, the class briefly reconsiders the early chapters of Genesis through the lens of place, continues to reflect on place and identity, and reflects on the following lines from the early 20th century English writer, Hilair...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. In 1943, Simone Weil, the French philosopher and activist who was living in England at the time, was tasked by the Free French government with...

This year we are recording both of our Director’s Classes and offering them as part of our podcast through this newsletter. In this installment, you can listen to the second week of “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place,” in which Mike Sacasas discusses the relationship between place and identity as well as the role of place in the early chapters of Genesis. Should yo...

This year we are recording both of our Director’s Classes and offering them as part of our podcast through this newsletter. In this installment, you can listen to the second week of Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities,” in which Dr. Horner walks his class through the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke. Should you be interested in joining the...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. In this week’s podcast, Dr. Horner and Mike Sacasas highlight the study center’s offerings after the first full week of fall programming. As Mi...

This year we are recording both of our Director’s Classes and offering them as part of our podcast through this newsletter. Here you can listen to the first session of Mike Sacasas’s class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral and Theological Dimensions of Place.” Please note, the audio is not especially clear when students are talking during this class. We will work on improving this aspect of the aud...

This year we will be recording both of our Director’s Classes and offering them as part of our podcast through this newsletter. Each Wednesday, you will receive a recording of the Dr. Horner’s class, “Reading the Gospels: Distinctives, Contradictions, and Commonalities.” Then, on Thursdays, beginning tomorrow, you will receive a recording of Mike Sacasas’s class, “Displaced: Exploring the Moral an...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. For several years I worked as an academic dean for a small school central Florida. In this role, I often found myself talking about the school’...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Some of you reading this know that one of the questions I like to ask is, “What frames what?” I ask this question in order to get at the often-...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Before I start to address an issue that has been much on my mind – and on yours, I want to thank Lauren Babb and Mike Sacasas for their faithfu...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. Perhaps to a greater degree than ever before, we are tempted to stay current with the unceasing stream of information inundating us from countl...

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. You are listening to the weekly newsletter of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville. This first week of July, we’re reflecting on one of ou...

This week you can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify. There are many features of Dante’s Divine Comedy that are likely to puzzle the modern reader. The poem, for example, is stuffed with...

Please note that this week we are launching a new feature for the newsletter. You may now choose to listen to the opening essay by clicking play above. Next week it will also be possible to find the audio in your favorite podcast apps. In 1934, T. S. Eliot published Choruses from “The Rock,” a collection of choruses Eliot composed for a play he wrote called “The Rock,” which explored the history o...