The link in this one didn’t work the first time, and in any case I’m trying to get this to “bump” on Facebook and Twitter–so I’m re-posting:
Next month I’ll be teaching the Bethel Seminary course from which my book Patron Saints for Postmoderns was developed. In the past I’ve opened the course with an introductory talk accompanied by a fancy PowerPoint with lots of cool pictures. This year I figured out how to do the thing as an audio narrated PowerPoint and convert it into a slick Flash movie with user controls.
The talk includes the following:
–A rationale for studying Christian biographies
–What I mean by “saints” and why we should care
–How church history and biography got added to Protestant seminary curricula
–A bunch of vignettes of the figures in my book (and the course)
–Other incredibly fascinating stuff
The file is currently here. It should load in a browser window pretty quickly–then just hit “play” and you can pause, switch slides, etc., and hear my mellifluous voice and see the cool pictures. 
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 
Just watched the audio slide show. It makes me want to buy the book. Is the oral part of the slide show part of your book? If not, is it available in text form? The book can be obtained from Amazon, right? Thanks!
Thanks for this. (Your voice sounds lower than I remember.)
I did it while pulling an all-nighter. I think my vocal cords were very relaxed! 🙂
I couldn’t see it! I guess I will have to buy the book 🙂
Hey Rachel: I hope all is well with the Urban Leadership Academy.
Could you tell me what happened when you tried to access the slideshow? I’d like to know, in case other folks are having the same problem & there’s something I can do to fix it. Did it take you to the Moodle page? Or just not load (blank page)? Or something else?
Great! It’s working – thanks again.
You’re welcome, Mark. And enjoy Calvin Seminary. I spent a couple of weeks on the Calvin College campus this summer, attending the Calvin Seminar on the Seven Deadly Sins. If you have the chance, see if you can take or sit in on a class with Rebecca De Young. And check out her book Glittering Vices. Excellent.
Thanks for making this available, but the link brings me to Bethel’s Moodle site which requires a password. Is there any way of getting around this?
Grr! I thought I had fixed this. It is now fixed as far as I know and will take you to the correct place.