Listening and Thinking – Two Interviews

It’s Sunday evening and it’s been a great week. Partly because I got to listen to interviews with two people I very much admire.

The first interview was Alan Jacobs as a guest on the Give and Take Podcast. Alan is a professor at Baylor University in Texas and an avid blogger. On the show he talks about his upcoming book How to Think and his personal situation as a Christian academic (or academic Christian). I’ve been reading his blog for more than three years by now and a couple of his books as well — it’s been eerie to finally hear the voice behind all those written words. Listen…

The other interview was quite the opposite experience, because I’d been listening to his voice for about ten years: Stuart Murdoch (of Belle & Sebastian fame) got to »Talk the Line« (on a podcast by the same name). Stuart talked a lot about his personal history and struggles, his Christianity and his recent dabbling with Buddhism. The show ends with a short discussion on the pros and cons of being reincarnated as a cat. Listen…