Michial Farmer

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Michial is (he hopes) about to take his comprehensive exams (American literature and pre- and post-1900 and Existentialist literature, if you’re keeping score at home) and is so deep into the reading that he can’t remember why he ever learned to read.

He is married to Victoria Reynolds Farmer, who’s getting her PhD in Renaissance literature and gender studies from Florida State University. He lives in Tallahassee and wants to get out as quickly as he can.

As the lone Americanist on The Christian Humanist podcast, he sometimes feels oppressed by the Eurocentric monologues foisted upon him each week. When that happens, he closes his eyes and pretends he’s doing air-traffic control. His marginal skill at recording and editing the podcast stems from his days in a marginal rock band in college.

Michial’s favorite authors include Karl Barth, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Soren Kierkegaard, Herman Melville, Walker Percy, Philip Roth, and John Updike. His biggest personal discovery while reading for his comps is Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie. He agrees with Aristotle but prefers to read Plato. In his free time, he designs syllabuses for classes he’s not teaching.

2 Comments to “Michial Farmer”

  1. Jeremiah Simoneaux2010/05/19 at 1:32 pm

    I just listened to your first podcast, I love it. You mentioned other intellectual Christian Podcasts, what are the best of them? I am interested in listening. The only other podcast I listen to is John Mark Reynolds of Biola, but they are very infrequent.

  2. mfarmer2010/05/19 at 7:30 pm

    Jeremiah:

    Reynolds’ podcast is wonderful (and the first one I ever listened to, I believe), and it’s really a shame that he and the other Torrey guys don’t update more often. There are some other options, though:

    - Our friends at Bethel University have a podcast called “CWC: The Radio Show” that is not the same format as The Christian Humanist or the Scriptorium, but it’s definitely worth listening to.

    - Depending on your theological persuasion, I can recommend two more or less hardcore theology shows. There’s a very, very Neo-Calvinist program called “Christ the Center,” and there’s an Emergent show called “Homebrewed Christianity.” Gilmour and I both listen to both of those shows, and if I have some problems with them both, I do think they’re worth listening to.

    - There’s an absolutely wonderful podcast on Christianity and the Arts called “The Kindlings Muse.” I can’t recommend that one highly enough; even when they talk about things I’m not interested in, I’m interested.

    - Finally, another one that’s rarely updated: Clark Carlton’s “Faith and Philosophy” podcast. Carlton is an Orthodox Christian Libertarian, so that’s at least two major views I don’t share–and I still look forward to his show.

    Thanks for listening! And read the blog: http://www.christianhumanist.com/chb

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