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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 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.

The MARS HILL AUDIO Journal is an "audio magazine" featuring ninety minutes of conversation on each bimonthly CD or MP3 edition.

Guests on the current issue (Volume 96) include: David A. Smith, on the beginnings of the National Endowment for the Arts and the capacity of the arts in a democracy for combatting atomistic individualism; Kiku Adatto, on how images, words, and ideas interact in a visually saturated culture and on how the image of a person's face in a photograph has the capacity for intimate representation of inner personhood; Elvin T. Lim, on how presidential speeches have been dumbed down for decades, and why presidents like it; David Naugle, on the deeper meaning of happiness, the disordering effects of sin, and the reordering of love made possible in our redemption; Richard Stivers, on the technologizing of all of life; and John Betz, on the critique of the Enlightenment offered by Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), and why it still matters to us.
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