About Mars Hill Audio"If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale."
—Simone Weil,
Gravity and Grace
MARS HILL AUDIO is committed to assisting Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of contemporary culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement. We believe that fulfilling the commands to love God and neighbor requires that we pay careful attention to the neighborhood: that is, every sphere of human life where God is either glorified or despised, where neighbors are either edified or undermined. [read more]
The Interviewer, Interviewed
A new section of the website—Writings & Videos—is available now which contains print, audio, and video interviews with Ken Myers in the guest seat, along with other resources.
The MARS HILL AUDIO Journal is an "audio magazine" featuring over ninety minutes of conversation on each bimonthly CD or MP3 edition. The CDs for Volume 111 are being duplicated right now and will be available in the beginning of May; the MP3 edition is available now.
Guests on the current issue (Volume 111) include: Siva Vaidhyanathan, on why trusting Google to organize the world's knowledge is an odd (and dangerous) thing to do; John Fea, on the history of the idea of America as a Christian nation and on how the Founders were—as statesmen—less interested in the truth of religion than in its political utility; Ross Douthat, on how commitment to historical Christian orthodoxy has eroded among American religious institutions since the 1960s; Ian Ker, on why G. K. Chesterton deserves wider recognition as a significant literary critic; Larry Woiwode, on how his decision to become a writer grew out of a desire to make connections with other people; and Dana Gioia, on the remarkable life of poet John Donne and how his spiritual and intellectual struggles created the conditions for his unique poetic voice.
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Listen to a short excerpt from the Volume 101 interview with Paul Spears by clicking here. Look here for more information on the entire issue.
Listen to short excerpts from the Volume 109 interviews with Charles Mathewes and Susannah Clements.
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The Making of Many Books May Have
an End after All
At least in the lives of many Americans, books in particular and reading in general is on the decline. We think this is not a good thing (and not just because our business involves the recommending of books). We think that Christian leaders in churches, schools, and parachurch organizations should recognize this as a challenge to be confronted confidently, not a condition to be met with acquiescence and accommodation. Indifference to aliteracy is not a good way to love our neighbors. In an effort to encourage like-minded advocates of reading, we've produced a new audio Anthology, "On Books and Reading." This program (on CD or downloadable MP3) features extracts from interviews from volumes 13, 90, and 94 of the Journal, as well as previously unheard "outtakes" from earlier interviews. Read more about this Anthology here.
Audition, our free podcast
Audition is a free podcast featuring previews from forthcoming Journal interviews, as well as exclusive commentary, conversations, and information about new items available from MARS HILL AUDIO. For more information, see our podcast page or (if you have iTunes installed on your computer) visit our podcast playlist on the iTunes Music Store.
Online Reference Materials
This section contains an index of the guests we've had on our Journal. You can find more information about specific topics here. And in this section, you may see the particular Journal interviews we've produced.
What We're Reading...
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