Best Thing I Listened to This Week

Last fall, Prof. John Stackhouse had a post on his blog about a Christian audio journal called Mars Hill.

In his post, he suggested that more and more people are spending increasing chunks of time commuting to and from work. For some people, he suggests the impact of this time is not really positive:

Some of us are getting dumber: listening to (bad, which is to say, typical) talk radio or pop music; fuming at other drivers while trying to shave a few minutes off the commute; or simply letting our minds idly flit from one vaguely anxious or annoying or trivial thought to another.

It raises the question of what intelligent and thought-provoking audio content is available to the Christian commuter. Prof. Stackhouse suggests Mars Hill as one example of such valuable content (note: not connected with Mars Hill in Michigan or in Seattle).

It turns out that Mars Hill has one track from each issue of its audio journal available for download from its website. I highly recommend them. Here’s a sample. It’s the best thing I listened to this week.