Addenda
A monthly e-mail newsletter from MARS HILL AUDIO
October 15, 2006 v Number 32
"The question is no longer as Dostoevski put it: 'Can civilized
men believe?' Rather: Can unbelieving men be civilized?"
-- Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic (1966)
New on our desks
Holy Writ Exalted in Verse
Two poems by Anglican priest and poet George Herbert (1593-1633) wonder at the glory, intricacy, and power of scripture, realities addressed in two books noted earlier this year on "New on our desks . . .". [Read more on Holy Writ]
The Pope’s Regensburg Address
Pope Benedict XVI's lecture at the University of Regensburg, which has incited wide-spread outrage among Muslims, addresses a subject to which much attention has been paid on back issues of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal: the relationship between faith and reason in the modern world. [Read more on Regensburg Address]
Why This Issue Is Late
For a few months, we have had many problems with e-mail messages bouncing back to us as undelivered. Apparently the anti-spam police (which are actually just computer programs) have reason to think that we're spamming people. Unfortunately, anti-spam has become a bigger problem for us than is spam (I'm sure there's a spiritual lesson there somewhere). We're trying to get "whitelisted" by various organizations, which should enable more messages to get through, and we are hoping that by delaying sending this out by 10 days, our bona fides will have been conveyed to more digital roadblockers. Sorry about the delay.
New Audio Products Available
Early next year, Walden Media (the people behind the movie version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) will be releasing a film called Amazing Grace: The William Wilberforce Story. It's a good story, an account of a protracted project to abolish slavery in England. Twenty years ago, biographer John Pollock wrote a good-size book about Wilberforce's life, now sadly out of print (although, with a big movie in the offing, someone may be dusting off the plates right now). Pollock also delivered a lecture at the National Gallery in London, which was adapted into a booklet published by The Trinity Forum called "William Wilberforce: A Man Who Changed His Times." That lecture/essay/booklet was converted yet again into audio format, and sold by MARS HILL AUDIO on audiocassette for many years. With the forthcoming movie, we thought it might be a good thing to make this reading available in a downloadable MP3 format as part of our Audio Reprints series. And so it is (click here for information). Also newly available is another Trinity Forum Reading, this one written by veteran journalist David Aikman. "One Word of Truth: A Portrait of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn" is read by the author, and introduced with an essay written and read by Os Guinness.
"Revelations: Finding God at the Movies" and Splintered Light Bookstore
Subscribers in central Virginia will be interested to know that Splintered Light Bookstore is co-sponsoring a few screenings during the Virginia Film Festival this month in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Festival, the theme of which is the relationship of spirituality and cinema and the title of which is "Revelations: Finding God at the Movies," runs from Thursday, October 26, through Sunday, October 29. The line-up of films for the Festival includes "Everything Is Illuminated," "Jesus Camp," and "The Chronicles of Narnia." The films co-hosted by Splintered Light are "Tender Mercies" (showing on Friday, the 27th at 1 p.m.), "Amazing Grace" (showing on the 27th at 7 p.m.), and "The King of Kings" (showing on Saturday, the 28th, at 1 p.m.). For descriptions of the films and location information, and for further information about the Festival, visit www.vafilm.com/. For more information about Splintered Light, visit its web page; SLB carries a number of titles mentioned on the MHA Journal, a list of which is available here.
Ken Myers in Dayton
Also in October, Ken Myers will speak at the Annual Reformation Conference hosted by Covenant Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Dayton, Ohio. He will give three lectures during the one-day conference on Saturday, October 28, all under the heading "Not a Private Savior: Honoring Christ's Rule in All of Life." The lectures are titled, respectively, "Consumers in a Hurry: Mass Media and the Shape of Personal Identity"; "Faithful Stewards or Terrestrial Gods? Keeping Science and Technology in Christian Perspective"; and "Creation and Poetic Knowledge: Discipleship and the Necessity of Imagination." For more information about the location of the conference and registration, please visit the church's web page.
Subscriber Update
Volume 82 (Sept./Oct. 2006) of the MARS HILL AUDIO Journal is in production; expected mailing date is early November. This issue's guestlist comprises: Stephen Gardner discussing modern culture and religion; Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn discussing Tom Wolfe and Philip Rieff; Wilfred McClay also discussing Rieff; David Wells on culture, human nature, and God; James K. A. Smith on experience and interpretation; and Robert Littlejohn on education, wisdom, and eloquence.
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