Friday, August 16, 2013  Fun with AM Radio, Peter Leithart and
the "Protestant Metanarrative"  Earlier in the summer, I had
occasion to rent a car while traveling over a long weekend in
Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.   Although I never
do so at home, I always tune in the AM radio “preaching
channels” when driving out of state.   I get a lot of
entertainment out of listening to these small local stations
where old-time preachers still go at it.  This perverse pleasure
does me no credit--and my wife lectures me about it -- but I
relish them in the same way as someone would enjoy a carnival
sideshow.  Even here in the South, such broadcasts are relics of
an earlier time.  That said, I am more at home in that world
than I would be in the schmaltzy Christian praise music stations
on the FM side of things.  Most of the broadcasting consists of
recorded sermons from local congregations (invariably either
Baptist or Pentecostal), itinerant small-time “radio preacher”
segments, and recordings of evangelis