PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 101
James Davison Hunter, author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World, on how the most prominent strategies of Christian cultural engagement are based on a misunderstanding about how cultures work
Paul Spears, co-author of Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective, on why Christian scholars need to understand their disciplines in ways that depart from conventional understanding
Steven Loomis, co-author of Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective, on why education needs to attend more carefully to non-quantifiable aspects of human experience
James K. A. Smith, author of Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, on how education always involves the formation of affections and how the form of Christian education should imitate patterns of formation evident in historic Christian liturgy (Archive Feature available)
Thomas Long, author of Accompany Them with Singing: The Christian Funeral, on how funeral practices have the capacity to convey an understanding of the meaning of discipleship and death (Archive Feature available)
William T. Cavanaugh, author of The Myth of Religious Violence, on the distinctly modern definition of “religion” and how the conventional account of the “Wars of Religion” misrepresents the facts in the interest of consolidating state power (Archive Feature available)
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