[Gospelchristianity] Fwd: MARS HILL AUDIO anticipates 10, 100, & 1000 . . .

[B. Heath Robinson]

I don't know if you have any people on your Christmas list who would enjoy listening to a quarterly audio journal on Christianity and Culture, but Mars Hill Audio is great.  The quality is on par with NPR, in fact Ken Myers worked for NPR, but the perspective is distinctively Christian.  You will hear interviews on topics ranging from marriage and divorce laws to reading habits of college students to the intelligent design debate.

I can't wait to get my issue every time.  Look at their web site for free samples to get a feel for the journal. 


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> From: "MARS HILL AUDIO" <addenda at marshillaudio.org>
> Date: December 3, 2009 7:30:38 PM CST
> To: "Mr. Heath Robinson" <heath at midnighthour.org>
> Subject: MARS HILL AUDIO anticipates 10, 100, & 1000 . . .
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> Number 53 - Thursday, December 3, 2009
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> a periodical newsletter from 
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> Powers of 10
> Next year will be 2010.
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> Our next issue is volume 100.
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> Can we get 1000 new subscribers for this issue?
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> We can, with your help. And we’re dropping prices on gift subscriptions to help you help us.
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> The cost of CD subscriptions is reduced to $39, down from $48 (note that shipping to non-US recipients is extra)
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> The cost of MP3 subscriptions is just $22, down from $30. Gift rates apply only for 1-year subscriptions.
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> If you order any gift subscriptions, the cost of a renewal or new subscription for yourself is the same rate.
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> You can order gift subs online at marshillaudio.org/subscribe. Be sure you click in the GIFT column on this page.
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> To order by phone, or to ask for more information, call1.800.331.6401. Please call between 9-5 EST and talk to a real person.
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> THESE PRICES ARE IN EFFECT THROUGH JANUARY 6, 2010.
> To ensure receipt of gift card by Christmas Day, orders must be received by Friday, December 11
> Correspondence from Ken Myers
> The following is an excerpt from a letter to MARS HILL AUDIO
> listeners that will be mailed early next week. We thought that
> some of you might like an early peek at it:
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>        “ . . . Fifteen years ago, I interviewed essayist Sven Birkerts about his remarkable book The Gutenberg Elegies: the Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (Faber & Faber, 1994). I reread several essays in this collection recently in preparation for some lectures and was pleased to learn that—despite changes in technology and the social place of technology—this book has not become outdated. One of the essays, ‘The Owl Has Flown,’ focuses specifically on the question of the problem of wisdom in a culture in which we are drowning in information. (If you’re nodding your head right now in a spirit of fatigued sympathy, make sure you’ve heard my recent interview on volume 94 with Maggie Jackson about her book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age; better yet, read her book, now out in paperback from Prometheus.)
>         “In ‘The Owl Has Flown,’ Birkerts suggests that our effort to promote access online to a virtually infinite amount of information has paradoxically created a kind of indifference to knowledge. ‘Awed and intimidated by the availability of texts, faced with the all but impossible task of discriminating among them, the reader tends to move across surfaces, skimming, hastening from one site to the next without allowing the words to resonate inwardly. . . . Quantity is elevated over quality. The possibility of maximum focus is undercut by the awareness of the unread texts that await. The result is that we know countless more ‘bits’ of information both important and trivial, than our ancestors. We know them without a stable sense of context, for where the field is that vast all schemes must be seen as provisional. We depend far less on memory; that faculty has all but atrophied from lack of use.’ . . .”
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> If you’d like to read more of this letter, download a pdf copy here, or wait until the printed copy arrives by snail-mail soon.
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