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MARS HILL AUDIO is committed to assisting Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of contemporary culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement. We believe that fulfilling the commands to love God and neighbor requires that we pay careful attention to the neighborhood: that is, every sphere of human life where God is either glorified or despised, where neighbors are either edified or undermined. [read more]
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Could Jesus get tenure?
Almost every year, thoughtful books are published documenting the various crises of higher education. Surveying such books, one soon realizes that the problems besetting higher education are often instances of larger problems in the society at large. The University has lost its way because modern Western culture has lost its way. In their more optimistic book The Passionate Intellect, Norman Klassen and Jens Zimmermann offer a longer and deeper perspective in identifying what's wrong. Their book—subtitled Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education—traces the history of higher education from its medieval roots to the present, focusing on how educational agendas have been assembled in light of shifting understandings of the nature of knowledge and the nature of human well-being. They demonstrate that some form of humanism has always been central to the purposes of higher education, and insist that the recovery of a rich, Christocentric Christian humanism is the only way for the University to recover a coherent purpose. MARS HILL AUDIO has just released an audio version of this important book, available on CD or as an MP3 download. Look here for more information.
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1918-2008
Russian writer and political prophet Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn died on August 3rd. In a life that moved from obscurity to the Nobel Prize and back to obscurity, Solzhenitsyn played a dramatic role in alerting the West to the realities of life under the dehumanizing Communist regime. MARS HILL AUDIO has featured five interviews about Solzhenitsyn's life and work since 1993, and we have just released a special Anthology containing those pieces along with some previously unheard material featuring Solzhenitsyn scholar, Edward E. Ericson, Jr.. Entitled The Christian Humanism of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, this 74-minute Anthology is available on CD or as an MP3 download. Also of interest is veteran journalist David Aikman's reading of his moving essay, "One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn," one of our MP3-only MARS HILL AUDIO Reprints. Look here for more information.
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The MARS HILL AUDIO Journal is an "audio magazine" featuring ninety minutes of conversation on each bimonthly CD or MP3 edition.
Guests on the current issue (Volume 94) include: Maggie Jackson, on how multitasking exalts efficiency and promises the overcoming of bodily limitations as time is restructured and on the importance of attentiveness in sustaining personal and social order; Mark Bauerlein, on how technologies have rearranged the social lives of teens (and their expectations of education); Tim Clydesdale, on what the first year in college means for teens; Andy Crouch, on the physical basis of cultural life and how "culture making" is done; and Jeremy Begbie, on how music is a way of engaging with the order in Creation and on how writing and hearing music involves a recognition of likenesses in Creation and the exercise of "hyper-hearing."
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