Addenda
A monthly e-mail newsletter from MARS HILL
AUDIO
No. 02
April 15, 2004
New on our desks
The First of Institutions - see Resource Updates, below.
Monitoring Stem Cell Research - Since
its inception in 2001, the President's Council on Bioethics has occupied itself
with - among other tasks - monitoring the developments of human stem cell
research. It has presented its findings thus far to the President and the
public in Monitoring Stem
Cell Research: A Report of the President's Council on Bioethics. [Read more]
Christian-Muslim
Dialogue - "Within the Church,
Christian-Muslim relations have been largely the concern of a small group of
specialists. All that changed on September 11, 2001." In an effort to meet
some of the questions coming from the increasing interest in education and
encounters between Christians and Muslims, The Institute on Religion and
Democracy has published "Christian-Muslim Dialogue: A Guide for
Churches." [Read more]
Resource Updates
We are continually updating the Resource section of our webpages. We are pleased to make available on-line "reprints" of two helpful articles. The first is from the December 2000 issue of Touchstone magazine by Thomas Howard on the importance of ritual and ceremony in expressing the deep significance of events such as weddings, funerals, and births. In "The Power of Wise Custom" Howard states that ritual and ceremony not only enable people to regard the mystery of significant events, they also enable people to enter into "the precincts of holiness" in public worship.
Second, in an insightful article called "The First of Institutions," Gilbert Meilaender argues that conversations about homosexuality should begin with a discussion of marriage and its purposes because marriage is the first of institutions and, as such, has much to say about the nature of sexuality and love. "The First of Institutions" was originally published in Pro Ecclesia, Volume VI, Number 4.
Guest Profile: Allan Carlson
On Volume 67 of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal (March/April 2004)
Of special interest are the contributions of German immigrants in shaping a particularly American conception of the family, and the concern of earlier feminists for the well-being of families, and in particular, for women as mothers. In our own day, the prevalence of divorce, out-of-wedlock births, outsourcing of child rearing, and childless marriages, along with an extreme emphasis on the rights and desires of the individual, make it difficult to imagine the broad appeal that images of the traditional family held for a majority of the American populace in the first several decades of the twentieth century. In The American Family Carlson offers a compelling social history of family life and family policy over the last one hundred years. Included with the Listener's Guide to Volume 67 is an extensive bibliography on the family and marriage.
Allan Carlson has been a frequent guest on the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, having discussed agrarian thinkers on Vol. 45, Hillary Rodham Clinton's It Takes a Village on Vol. 19, and one of his previous books, From Cottage to Workstation on Vol. 3. Any of these books, as well as The American Family, can be purchased from our friends at Splintered Light Books.
Volume 67 (March/April 2004) is expected to be in the mail by the end of April. View a complete listing of the guests on this issue.
Living
in the Biotech Century
The Humanitas Project: A
Center for Bioethics and Culture (
As part of the Faith & Life Lecture Series of Mount Olivet Lutheran
Church of Plymouth, Minnesota,
Listener Mail
For the first installment of our new Listener Mail pages we've perused our files and e-mail inboxes to come up with a few listener letters from the past year or so. (The names of the writers have been left off since the correspondents wrote without the understanding that their letters would be made available to the general public.) You may send your submission to letters@marshillaudio.org. We will acknowledge receipt of your e-mail, but, depending on the volume, we may not respond to it beyond that. If you would prefer to send a letter, please see our mailing address at the end of this newsletter. If we decide to print your letter we will include your name unless you request to remain anonymous.
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