Constructing your Favorites List
Ken Myers describes the new ecosystem of Mars Hill Audio’s membership/partnership program and shares clips from five recent lectures released as Bonus Features. (26 minutes)
Apprehending the enduring things
Vigen Guroian explains how children’s literature has the capacity to birth the moral imagination in our children, affirming for them the permanent things. (53 minutes)
Ruinous reductions and brash bowdlerizations
Ken Myers reads an article by Vigen Guroian, “The Fairy Tale Wars: Lewis, Chesterton, at al. against the Frauds, Experts, and Revisionists.” In the article, Guroian critiques the common practice of retelling traditional stories in ways that eliminate the meaning of the originals. (31 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 158
FEATURED GUESTS:
David Setran, Vigen Guroian, Michael Dominic Taylor, Thomas Pfau, Jason Paone, and Matthew Levering
With Eastern eyes
Paul Valliere and Vigen Guroian discuss questions of law, politics, and human nature from the Orthodox tradition. (34 minutes)
A Lenten meditation on gardening
Theologian Vigen Guroian reads “Lenten Spring,” a gardener’s meditation on the anticipation of new life, material and spiritual. (16 minutes)
On children’s literature and gardening
Vigen Guroian discusses profound fairy tales and the pleasures of gardening. (20 minutes)
Vigen Guroian: “Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues through Fairy Tales”
Vigen Guroian contrasts the features of character and virtue with those of what is more modernly called “values,” and examines how these different approaches to moral consideration reflect conflicting ways of understanding self-formation. (48 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 80
FEATURED GUESTS: Stephen A. McKnight, Tim Morris, Don Petcher, Vigen Guroian, Paul Valliere, and Calvin Stapert
Inheriting Paradise: Meditating on Gardening, by Vigen Guroian
Vigen Guroian offers an abundant vision of the spiritual life found in the cultivation of God’s good creation. (2 hours)