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David Grubbs dives into St. Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" to talk to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria.

The Christian Humanists discuss Sidney's Psalms.

Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about three poems by the recent Nobel laureate Louise Glück.

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about Aelfric of Eynsham's 10th-century Latin primer "The Colloquy."

Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about Sinclair Ross's bleak short story "The Lamp at Noon."

Michial Farmer talks to Mathew Block and David Grubbs about Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about two Robert Hayden poems, "Those Winter Sundays" and "The Whipping."

The weather in Texas kept us from recording this week, so enjoy our 2017 conversation about the L.S.U. album The Grape Prophet, recently reissued digitally and on vinyl.

Mathew Block talks to David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the important Lutheran document, the Augsburg Confession.

Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Mathew Block about two David Bowie songs: 1969's "Space Oddity" and 1980's "Ashes to Ashes."

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Mathew Block about the uses Christian humanism can be put to in the Church.

Michial Farmer discusses Shirley Jackson's 1943 short story "Afternoon in Linen" with David Grubbs and new regular co-host, Mathew Block.

Revisit the talk Michial Farmer had with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the Longfellow poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" and recordings of the poem as a Christmas song.

Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks to Michial Farmer and David Grubbs about three Christina Rossetti poems about Advent.

Michial Farmer talks to David Grubbs and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about four paintings by the American artist Edward Hopper: Night Windows, City Roofs, New York Movie, and Room in New York.

Revisit a conversation about offices as sites of personality and interaction.

David Grubbs talks to Michial Farmer and Victoria Reynolds Farmer about our relationship to the saints.

Victoria Reynolds Farmer talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about their regular habits of prayer.

Michial Farmer talks with Victoria Reynolds Farmer and Todd Pedlar about John Coltrane's album "A Love Supreme."

Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs talk about the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, in this episode from 2016.