Addenda
A monthly e-mail newsletter from MARS HILL AUDIO
March 15, 2005 v Number 13
"Our final standard for [the novelist] will have to be the demands of art,which are a good deal more exacting than the demands of the Church.
There are novels a writer might write, and remain a good Catholic,which his conscience as an artist would not allow him to perpetuate."
--Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1962)
New on our desks
The Truth About Harvard
Sure, Harvard is hard, but not in the way you might think. Writing in The Atlantic (March 2005), a recent Harvard graduate reflected on what was missing from his education. Ross Douthat observes that getting into Harvard was hard, and once there "it was hard work competing for offices and honors and extracurriculars with thousands of brilliant and driven young people; hard work keeping our heads in the swirling social world; hard work fighting for law-school slots and investment-banking jobs as college wound to a close . . . yes, all of that was heavy sledding. But the academics - - the academics were another story." [Read more]
The Embryo Question
Writers for The New Atlantis consider the question of destroying embryos for stem cell research. In their articles they set up parameters for the debate and examine the language employed in the discussion thus far. [Read more]
Volume 72 (January/February 2005) Update
The guest list for Volume 72 (January/February 2005) is available online. The CD bonus track features Wilfred McClay, on the theme of place and communal obligation in Nathaniel Hawthornes writing. You may listen to this interview in MP3 via our CD bonus page (scroll down to the bottom of the page for the link to this interview).
Spring
Cleaning
Despite our best efforts to accurately gauge how much of any particular cassette or CD we should duplicate, sometimes we overestimate. This means that we have too many of certain selections filling up our storage room, taking up limited space, and making end-of-the-year inventory counting rather tedious.
This also means you have the opportunity to pick up these items on the cheap. Through March 31, 2005 you may purchase selected MARS HILL AUDIO Journal back issues, Conversations, and other items (on cassette and CD) for up to 50% off the list price.
You may view the sale catalog online and place an order. You may also print a PDF order form and mail or fax it to us (see fax number and mailing address below).
Discussion Group update
MARS HILL AUDIO Journal-oriented discussion
groups have been meeting on a regular basis in
What is Marriage?
If you don't know, you may want to attend this conference to
find out: The Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology is sponsoring What is Marriage? A Conference on Human
Sexuality and Christian Marriage, June 12-14, 2005 at
Christianity and the Arts
The Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts takes place
on April 8 & 9 at the
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