PREVIEW
Guests heard on Volume 74
Russell Moore, on the struggles at Baylor University, “soul competency,” and the Baptist culture of autonomy
W. Bradford Wilcox, author of Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands, on the characteristics of “soft patriarchy” in evangelical families
Joseph E. Davis, author of Accounts of Innocence: Sexual Abuse, Trauma, and the Self, on sexual abuse, how it is explained, and how a sense of identity is thereby formed
Barrett Fisher, on the remarkable achievement of film producers and directors Ismail Merchant and James Ivory
Jeanne Murray Walker and Darryl Tippens, the editors (together with professor Steven Weathers) of Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith, on overcoming the neglect of literature that highlights the spiritual dimension of human experience
Paul Walker, on the life and music of English organist and composer Thomas Tallis, 1505-1585 (extended interview)
Related reading and listening
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- Postmodern manners and morals — Mary P. Nichols on the films of Whit Stillman as comedies of manners
- Movies and terminal irony — Two archive interviews explore how the films of Ingmar Bergman and Whit Stillman sustain a degree of moral depth absent in most movies. (30 minutes)
- Davis, Joseph E. — FROM THE GUEST PAGE: Joseph Davis is a Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Picturing the Human Project of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture.
- Wilcox, W. Bradford — FROM THE GUEST PAGE: W. Bradford Wilcox is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia (where he directs the National Marriage Project), a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies.
- Fisher, Barrett — FROM THE GUEST PAGE: Dr. Barrett Fisher II is the dean of academic programs for the College of Arts and Sciences in Bethel University (St. Paul, Minnesota), where he served as professor of English and department chair, as well as faculty development coordinator, before moving into full-time administration.
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- Communion of saints — Jessica Hooten Wilson asserts that reading stories of holiness in the lives of “literary saints” helps to cultivate Christian character in us. (25 minutes)
- The consequential witness of St. Patrick — Thomas Cahill describes how the least likely saviors of Western heritage, the Irish, copied all of classical and Christian literature while barbarians rampaged through the rest of Europe. (16 minutes)
- Remembering the networks of giving and receiving — O. Carter Snead on the disabling assumptions of expressive individualism in public bioethics
- Art and the truth of things — Joseph Nicolello explains the origins and themes of his imaginary dialogue between Jacques Maritain and Flannery O’Connor. (28 minutes)
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- The role of hymns in building faith — Darryl Tippens reminds us of Scriptural texts in which a person is moving closer to God when music breaks out (such as Mary’s Magnificat, and he discusses the history of music in the church. (23 minutes)
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