A Hillsdale College Christmas
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Guests: Dwight Lindley, Jordan Joseph Wales, & Timothy McDonnell
Host Scot Bertram continues a conversation with Dwight Lindley, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, about Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Jordan Joseph Wales, John and Helen Kuczmarski Chair and associate professor of Theology at Hillsdale College, discusses the Christian doctrine of The Trinity and the concept of personhood. And Timothy McDonnell, associate professor of Music at Hillsdale College, describes the history and ideas behind the Christmas Eve service of Lessons and Carols.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:24.9 | We're kind of used to hearing carols like the first Noel and so forth in church, but really that was not the practice until more or less this point in history when lessons and carols were introduced. |
| 0:37.3 | This is your host, Scott Bertram, and welcome to a special Christmas-themed edition of the |
| 0:42.3 | Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. That was Timothy MacDonald, director of sacred music here at Hillsdale |
| 0:47.5 | College. We'll talk with him a little bit later on in today's program about the Christmas |
| 0:51.3 | service of lessons and carols. First, we're joined once again by Dr. Dwight |
| 0:56.5 | Lindley. He is Associate Professor of English here at Hillsdale and also your teacher for the new |
| 1:01.4 | online course on a Christmas Carol. Dr. Lindley's talked with us throughout the year about Charles |
| 1:06.7 | Dickens and some of his works. And today the focus turns toward a Christmas carol. And of course, |
| 1:12.2 | you can learn more in the online course at online.hillsdale.edu. |
| 1:17.4 | Dr. Lindley, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you, Scott. How did Dickens come to write |
| 1:22.8 | a Christmas carol? Sure, sure. It's the year 1843, and he's advanced in his career. |
| 1:35.3 | He's around 30 years old. |
| 1:37.4 | He's written some successful novels already. |
| 1:40.6 | But this report comes out. |
| 1:43.5 | It's called the second report of there was a committee on the urban poor. |
| 1:48.6 | It was especially concerned with children. |
| 1:51.9 | And this committee report comes out investigating the state of poverty and cities in the UK. |
| 1:59.0 | And it just horrified many people but especially Dickens who |
| 2:03.5 | for a number of reasons we went over last time very sensitive to the plight of the poor he |
| 2:09.5 | had undergone severe poverty himself in his childhood and so he's determined in 1843 to do something about this. His first thought is, |
| 2:22.3 | well, I need to write a piece of nonfiction and wake people up and say, and look around you. |
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