Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 140

PREVIEW

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Guests heard on Volume 140

Matthew Rubery, author of The Untold Story of the Talking Book, on the history of the “talking book,” and on how reading aloud differs from listening to it being read

James A. Herrick, author of Visions of Technological Transcendence: Human Enhancement and the Rhetoric of the Future, on the “post-human” aspirations of the transhumanist movement, and how its plausibility is established by stories

Jack Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro, authors of Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place, on lessons that universities should heed from Wendell Berry’s essays, poetry, and fiction about commitment to living in a place

Timothy Gloege, author of Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism, on the influence of business methods on twentieth-century evangelicalism through the shaping of Moody Bible Institute

David Hollinger, author of Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America, on how the sons and daughters of mid-twentieth-century missionaries to Asia came back to the U.S. and influenced government, journalism, and the academy