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Guests heard on Volume 90
J. Mark Bertrand, author of (Re)thinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World, on how the language of worldviews can mean something richer than it often does
Michael P. Schutt, author of Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession, on how the day-to-day practice of Christian lawyers can reflect a Christian view of the nature of law
Michael Ward, author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis, on how C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia were shaped by medieval cosmological beliefs about the seven planets
Dana Gioia, speaking about To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, on the disturbing trends in the reading (non)habits of Americans
Makoto Fujimura on reading, painting, and attending to the world
Gregory Edward Reynolds, author of The Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures: Preaching in the Electronic Age, on lessons about reading from the study of media ecology
Catherine Prescott on why portrait painters often depict their subjects with books in their hands
Eugene Peterson on the place of reading in the spiritual lives of Christians.
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