The current Friday Feature
duration 20:09
If you’re a member, you can select this (or any other) Friday Feature, and download it to our new app for later listening. Here’s the listing of Features.
Latest wisdom from Sound Thinking
- Touch’d with a coal from heav’n
Daniel Ritchie finds in the poetry of William Cowper (1731–1800) an anticipation of Michael Polanyi’s epistemology - Recovering the primacy of contemplation
Augusto Del Noce finds in St. Augustine resources to diagnose the fatal flaw in progressivism - Confronting the supremacy of science
Augusto Del Noce on the belief that science is the only true form of knowledge - Torrential winds of doctrine
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the “dictatorship of relativism” - Faith as the pathway to knowledge
Lesslie Newbigin on authority and the Author of all being
“I’m not a member yet. Convince me that it’s worth it.”
- AUDITION some of the features on our Listen for free page (over 15 hours of listening).
- READ our mission statement and some testimonials.
- BROWSE the various sections of our catalog to see how much you’re missing.
- SCROLL down on the Meet our Guests page to see if you recognize anyone.
- SIGN UP here.
Recommended listening
Music, passion, & politics
Music without emotivism
Music and the created order
Music as discovery of the cosmos
Meet one of our Partners
Since March of 2009, Front Porch Republic has published hundreds of pieces on their website, exploring and advancing decentralist and localist ideas, hosting lectures and conferences, and building a unique coalition of writers and thinkers from “left” and “right” to think together about a more humane American future. They’ve even managed quite literally to alter the terms of political and cultural debate: they unwittingly inserted the noun “porcher” into the blogospheric lexicon. FPR aims to bring together thoughtful men and women across America to promote human-scale institutions and the rebirth of community. FPR wants to help people resist the dehumanization that seems to threaten from every quarter, focusing on the overlapping local and regional groups, communities, and associations that provide a matrix for human flourishing. Through FPR’s website, books, a semi-annual print journal, an annual conference, and other ventures, they seek to discuss concepts such as human scale, the distribution of power, and our responsibility to the future and to bring them back into the public conversation.
On this page, you can browse a listing of the lectures that Front Porch Republic has made available as Features for Mars Hill Audio members.
A recent Bonus Feature
If prudence is practical wisdom, is it possible to “outsource” it to a digital function or app? Fortunately, no, says Ken Myers in this July 2024 lecture at the CiRCE Institute. As the mother of all virtues (per Aquinas), prudence is fundamentally connected with a deep and anchored understanding of “really real” reality. Myers explains why prudence actually enables the other virtues to come into being in one’s character. It orients action toward a recognition of transcendent good with clear-eyed wisdom. And one must know the true nature of reality before one can know the good, Myers says. Though the concept of prudence is often misunderstood and even maligned in our culture today, it has a depth, vitality, and wisdom that make it essential to good character and Christian faithfulness.
The 18 most recent Conversations and Features we’ve released are described here.
If you’re not yet a member, you can get a free Visitor’s Pass and listen to hours of free audio. Details are here.
Our most recent Journal
Guests on Volume 162
- MARK NOLL, author of C. S. Lewis in America: Readings and Reception, 1935–1947, on early critical reception of C. S. Lewis’s work
- R. JARED STAUDT, author of The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology, on religion as the chief moral virtue
- PAUL WESTON, author of Humble Confidence: Lesslie Newbigin and the Logic of Mission, on Newbigin’s belief in “the Gospel as public truth”
- WILLIAM C. HACKETT, author of Anthropomorphism in Christian Theology: The Apophatics of the Sensible, on the interrelation of logos and mythos
- HANS BOERSMA, author of Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition, on how to read Scripture receptively
- DAVID PAUL BAIRD, co-author (with Andrew Petiprin and Michael Ward) of Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List, on the Vatican’s 1995 list of recommended films