My Interview in Volume 90 of the Mars Hill Audio Journal
This isn't a commercial interruption so much as it is a giddy outburst. Some of you know that, after the release of my book Rethinking Worldview, I was interviewed by Ken Myers for the Mars Hill Audio Journal. Well today Volume 90 was released to subscribers, and my interview is right at the beginning. I'm pleased. No, make that thrilled. When people ask me to recommend resources for "thinking Christians," Mars Hill Audio Journal is always the first thing I suggest (followed by a subscription to Books & Culture), so it's surreal -- in the good way, not the clock melting on a branch way) to find myself included. I've listened to the interview, but I still have a hard time believing it really happened.Anyway, I wanted to share my joy with the rest of you, and encourage you to subscribe to Mars Hill Audio Journal. It is the intellectual equivalent of a goatskin binding.
J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.
Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.
Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.