Mathew Dickerson | Hammers & Nails | The Life and Music of Mark Heard | Part 1

Matthew Dickerson is the author of several books including Hammers and Nails: the Life and Music of Mark Heard. His most recent books include: Aslan’s Breath: Seeing the Holy Spirit in Narnia which is a close reading of C.S.Lewis’s Narnia stories looking at the numerous ways Lewis seems to have been portraying the Holy Spirit; and the forthcoming book Birds in the Sky, Fish in the Sea: Attending to Creation with Delight and Wonder – a book which is a close reading of both nature and scripture and which ends with a poem responding to and inspired by the journals of Mark Heard. He has also published two novels of medieval historical fiction, the first of which Mark Heard read and responded to as part of a conversation between Dickerson and Heard. The second and more recent of these, titled The Rood and the Torc: the Song of Kristinge, Son of Finn, explores the spiritual and artistic value of songwriting as vocation, and is still available today.Dickerson teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. Though most of his teaching load is in the area of computer science, he still finds time to teach occasional courses on the writings of C.S.Lewis and J.R.R.Tolkien. He lives on a wooded hillside with his wife of more than 35 years.