"Lament for a Father," with Marvin Olasky
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In his new book, Lament for a Father: The Journey to Understanding and Forgiveness, Marvin Olasky, editor of WORLD Magazine , puts all his journalistic expertise and experience into uncovering the story of his father.
Life and Books and Everything is sponsored by Crossway, publisher of Recovering the Lost Art of Reading: A Quest for the True, the Good, and the Beautiful by Leland Ryken, Glenda Faye Mathes.
Reading has become a lost art. With smartphones offering us endless information with the tap of a finger, it’s hard to view reading as anything less than a tedious and outdated endeavor. This is particularly problematic for Christians, as many find it difficult to read even the Bible consistently and attentively. Reading is in desperate need of recovery.
Recovering the Lost Art of Reading addresses these issues by exploring the importance of reading in general as well as studying the Bible as literature, offering practical suggestions along the way. Leland Ryken and Glenda Faye Mathes inspire a new generation to overcome the notion that reading is a duty and instead discover it as a delight.
Timestamps:
Do you want to hear about Abraham Lincoln? [0:00 – 1:13]
The Perfect Sponsor Book for LBE [1:13 – 1:53]
Marvin Olasky [1:53 – 5:05]
WORLD Magazine [5:05 – 8:10]
Lament for a Father [8:10 – 13:34]
From Success to Failure [13:34 – 18:52]
The Turning Point [18:52 – 24:08]
The Mercy of Reticence [24:08 – 30:20]
Mother’s Story [30:20 – 35:49]
Iron-Clad Chain, Daisy Chain [35:49 – 41:52]
Don’t Wait Until You’re Seventy [41:52 – 47:55]
The Single Biggest Social Problem in America [47:55 – 50:41]
Book Recommendations [50:41 – 53:25]
Advice for Those with Bad or Good Fathers [53:25 - 56:30]
Books and Everything:
Messages from My Father: A Memoir, by Calvin Trillin
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. Welcome to Life and Books and Everything. I'm Kevin D. Young, joined with Justin Taylor and Colin Hansen. Good to have you with us. |
| 0:19.0 | As we come to, as sad as it may sound, the completion |
| 0:22.9 | of this season of Life and Books and Everything. Lord willing, we'll be back with more. |
| 0:29.5 | Perhaps after a breakover some of the summer, maybe we'll come back with special episodes in the |
| 0:36.3 | summer. We've had such a resounding reply to our question |
| 0:40.7 | about should we do a special episode on Abraham Lincoln Books? I'm just thinking guys, maybe, |
| 0:46.6 | both of you who weighed in. Yeah, both of you, only one related to us. Maybe that would be a spellbinding episode come Fourth of July to talk about |
| 0:58.6 | Lincoln books. I mean, who actually goes out of their way to say, hey, I heard you guys |
| 1:03.8 | talking about Abraham Lincoln. Please don't do a podcast on that. I have no interest in that. |
| 1:09.9 | Who says that? Well, so we'll see. But glad to have you with us. |
| 1:14.9 | And glad, as always, they have Crossway as a sponsor. We're grateful for all of the great books that they put out. |
| 1:21.3 | We've mentioned many of them over this season want to highlight today, recovering the lost art of reading by Leland |
| 1:29.1 | Reichen and Glinda Faye Mathis. And what other sort of book would be nearer and dearer to our |
| 1:37.0 | hearts, life and books and everything, a book on the lost art of reading? We want to do whatever |
| 1:42.3 | we can to encourage people to be good readers and to read good books. |
| 1:46.6 | And as this book says, to help us pursue the good, the true, and the beautiful. |
| 1:50.7 | So check out that new book from Crossway. |
| 1:54.0 | And speaking of new books, we are joined with our special guest today, Marvin Olasky of World Magazine Renown. |
| 2:05.7 | Marvin, good to have you with us. How long have you been at the helm of World? |
| 2:11.0 | Oh, about 29 years. |
| 2:13.1 | 29 years. I should know my history of the magazine. I think I've subscribed to it for all of those |
| 2:19.0 | years. But are you the first of the editors, the only? No, Joel Bells started the... |
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