PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 105
Julian Young, author of Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, on the historical context of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas and on why he still believed in the necessity of religion
Perry L. Glanzer, author of Christianity and Moral Identity in Higher Education, on the failure of American universities to adequately address the challenge of moral formation
Kenda Creasy Dean, author of Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church, on why churches are to blame for the “moralistic therapeutic deism” so common among teens
Brian Brock, author of Christian Ethics in a Technological Age, on how the centrality of technology in Western culture encourages us to see the gift of Creation as merely nature awaiting our manipulation
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, on how the distracted character of multi-tasking ruins reading and how social networking systems sustain a “transactional” view of relationships (Conversation available)
Alan Jacobs, author of Wayfaring: Essays Pleasant and Unpleasant, on how the literary form of the essay reproduces the unpredictable way that our thoughts develop (Conversation available)
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