released 7/25/2025

In his introduction to this Feature, Ken Myers discusses the work of philosopher Byung-Chul Han, focusing on Han’s explanation of how our experience of time has changed and fractured. Dorothy Bass similarly describes what it is like for us to experience a world in which time has lost its shape and form. In our world of 24-7 consumerism, distraction, entertainment, work, and noise, Bass says that we need to recover a sense of the fullness, gift, and rhythms of time. There is wisdom and truth in receiving time as a gift, and the Christian tradition offers us practices that help disciple us toward regaining a proper vision of time. Bass explains how practicing a Christian way of living each day, week, and year helps to reorient us to time in ways that honor creation, our communities, and our embodied lives. Bass is the author of Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (Jossey-Bass Inc., 2001). This interview was originally published on Volume 42 of the Mars Hill Audio Journal.

Other features Ken Myers mentions in this Feature’s script are a Conversation with Eugene Peterson, “Dancing Lessons: On Theology and the Rhythms of Life,” and a reading of Robert Jenson’s First Things essay, “How the World Lost Its Story.”

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