Christians possessed of an inquisitive intellect, a restless soul, and an intuitive connection to their culture are one of the Church’s underserved people groups. Often their God-given wiring is viewed as evidence of spiritual drift or—worse still—untamed rebellion.
Ken Myers and Mars Hill Audio want to do something about that. They do so by means of a monthly audio cd chock full of the most invariably fascinating interviews that I have ever found in one place. I have subscribed for years and have yet to find any single cd issue less than riveting.
A sample pulled at random from my shelves (Volume 78, January/February 2006) offers the following:
-Mark Bauerlein, on the causes of disengagement of college students from concern for intellectual and civic life
-Elisabeth Lasch-Quin, on television, children, and acquiring a sense of reality
-Sam Van Eman, on the view of the good liffe advanced by advertising
-Thomas de Zengotita on ‘Mediated: How the media shapes your world and the way you live in it’
-Eugene McCarraher, on how American management theory became an influential source of religious meaning and practice
-John Witte, Jr., on how law embodies a view of human nature, and why religious viewpoints have often been ignored
-Thomas de Zengotita, on postmodern individualism and ‘reality’ TV
All Ken Myers does is ask the right questions, get out of the way, and allow his interviewees—by no means all of them Christians—to talk about the things they know best.
It is joyful nourishment of the best kind and the source of regular drive-time ecstasy.
Canter Bridge 
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