I have discovered just how much of a nerd I am. While other folks probably have their mp3 player filled with hip tunes — I have mine chock full of lectures, sermons and audio books.

I have had it half and half, George Strait, K.T. Tunstall and Offspring sharing space with lectures on Calvinism, Church History and other edge of your seat exciting ear candy. But my small 1 GB player has had to make room for more podcasts on latin and productivity.

After spending hours a day reading and writing I find listening a way to continue to study when I’m too tired read, or when I’m driving, jogging, doing housework or other things that would make a book difficult or dangerous.

Anyway, last night I listened to Frederica Mathewes-Green’s lecture at Calvin College’s January Series. Excellent take on the generations. For the past few years I’ve noticed the absence of the same type of leadership we had in previous generations. She offers a pretty plausible, if as she admits overly general, reason for the difficulties and trends in the boomers and generation X. (By the way do we have a name for the generation born from the slackers?…any suggestions?)