But What Do You Think, Ken Myers?
Mars Hill Audio Journal
Albert Louis Zambone
July 1, 2000
The first thing you notice when you meet Ken Myers is that he is much bigger than he sounds on the radio. I am about 6'2", and of a more than matching weight, and when I stand next to him, I feel a little small. It is completely irrational, but when I shake Ken Myers's hand I find myself wondering, How does this big guy fit onto one of those little cassette tapes?
Ken Myers, for those uninitiated, is the host, producer, and all-around impresario of the Mars Hill Audio Journal, an audio production that is extraordinary for many paradoxical reasons. Mars Hill, using the medium of cassette tape, has a distinctly literate mission, "to assist Christians who desire to move from thoughtless consumption of modern culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement." Myers, a graduate of conservative Westminster Theological Seminary, was once a producer for National Public Radio. His home and office are an eleven-acre farm in the shadow of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains outside of Charlottesville, a town most notable for a university founded by Thomas Jefferson, America's greatest agnostic.
If those juxtapositions aren't enough for you, sit still while I give you a few more. Take the seemingly unlimited variety of content in just one of the bimonthly editions. On just one side of a ninety-minute tape you might well encounter discussions of the unintended consequences of technology, the moral value of fairy tales, what Felix Mendelssohn was up to when he wrote his oratorio Elijah, and the implications of the thought of the philosopher Michael Polanyi for education. Nearly every installment of Mars Hill features a discussion of some work of classical music or, failing that, folk music; you would never know, from listening to musical ...
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