PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 68
Murray Milner, Jr., author of Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids: American Teenagers, Schools, and the Culture of Consumption, on American teenagers, schools, and the culture of consumption, and on how the choices of parents create the institutional framework for the lives of adolescents
Steven C. Vryhof, author of Between Memory and Vision: The Case for Faith-Based Schooling, on faith-based schools and the maintaining of community
Douglas J. Schuurman, author of Vocation: Discerning Our Callings in Life, on recovering the Reformation’s vision of vocation as neighbor-love and instrument of providence
Robert Gagnon, author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics, on Biblical teaching about homosexuality and how it is being ignored
Richard Stivers, author of Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society, on the role of technologies and “technique” in creating a sense of loneliness
Quentin Schultze, author of Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Toward a Democratic Accommodation, on the role of religious paradigms in the American understanding of mass media
Bonus: Murray Milner, Jr. on how people achieve social status and what role it plays in society at large
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