Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 151

PREVIEW

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Guests heard on Volume 151

Richard Stivers, author of The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture, on lessons from Jacques Ellul about media technologies and society

Holly Ordway, author of Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages, on the surprising reading habits of J. R. R. Tolkien

Robin Phillips, author of Gratitude in Life’s Trenches: How to Experience the Good Life Even When Everything is Going Wrong, on the challenge of sustaining a posture of gratitude in the midst of suffering

Scott Newstok, author of How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education, on why William Shakespeare offers valuable perspectives on the means and ends of education

Junius Johnson, author of The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty, on why the experience of beauty is dangerous, but necessary (Archive Feature available)

Peter Mercer-Taylor, author of Gems of Exquisite Beauty: How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America, on how early 19th-century hymnody introduced many Americans to a repertoire of classical music (Archive Feature available)

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