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based in
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, United States, primarily of
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materials, most notably a bimonthly "audio magazine," the ''Mars Hill Audio Journal''. According to the company's website, the purpose of the company is "to assist Christians who desire to move from thoughtless
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of modern culture to a vantage point of thoughtful engagement." Most of the published materials focus on critiques of
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and modern
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values, and how an
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Christian
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applies to a wide range of modern issues such as
bioethics Bioethics is both a field of study and professional practice, interested in ethical issues related to health (primarily focused on the human, but also increasingly includes animal ethics), including those emerging from advances in biology, me ...
,
city planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...
, the
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, and
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s. However, the viewpoints expressed in the ''Journal'' and other materials are not necessarily politically
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, although the leaning is often in this direction; more accurately, the focus is critical rethinking of many of the assumptions of
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and modern
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theory.


Publications

The ''Mars Hill Audio Journal'', produced regularly since 1993, is a bimonthly, 90-minute "audio magazine" available on
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, CD, and
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and is sold by subscription. Hosted by Ken Myers (formerly with
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and a graduate of
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), the ''Journal'' consists of conversations between Myers and guests, most of whom are authors of recently published books. While a majority of the guests make a Christian profession, guests are selected for the merits of their arguments and the relevance of their viewpoints to the organization's purpose. Myers also provides commentary and analysis to segue from one conversation to the next. Although the restrictions of the medium limit the length of these conversations to 12 to 15 minutes on the ''Journal'' (with 6 to 8 interviews on each issue), many are available as full-length ''Mars Hill Audio Conversations'' which are sold separately. Common topics include bioethics, city planning and communities, education,
natural law Natural law (, ) is a Philosophy, philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of a set of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles, which are discoverable through reason. In ethics, natural law theory asserts ...
theory,
relativism Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to absolute objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are relative to the perspective of an observer or the context in which they are assess ...
,
technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...
,
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,
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, and
music Music is the arrangement of sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm, or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Music is generally agreed to be a cultural universal that is present in all hum ...
. In addition to the ''Journal'', Mars Hill Audio also produces anthologies of previously published essays and articles, documentary-type ''Reports'',
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s, and a limited amount of printed material.


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