Posted in big questions on Aug 29th, 2011 2 Comments »
(For archival purposes) This is a working list of 50 things I love. Writing such lists is an exercise I often ask people to do in my workshops or classrooms, because (following the teaching of Steven Garber and Augustine of Hippo) I believe that it is in consideration of what we love that we come to know, most [...]
Posted in big questions, SIX on Jul 29th, 2011 5 Comments »
I hope to resume blogging here in the next few weeks, on two themes, one of which will be six questions that I believe we must ask as we seek to discern our vocations: What do I love? What do I believe? Who am I? Where do I belong? What possibilities and constraints does my [...]
Posted in big questions on Jan 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
“If, as [Hannah Arendt] wrote, ‘it is the desire to excel which makes men love the world,’ then our love for the world actually makes it harder for us to love the people who inhabit it.” Adam Kirsch, “Beware of Pity: Hannah Arendt and the power of the impersonal” (The New Yorker, January 12, 2009)
