PAST READINGS AND DIALOGUES
Below are the various readings Scholars and Mentors have discussed in past dinners:
2024-2025 Academic Year
- Spring 2025 - This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us By Cole Arthur Riley
- Leading Questions Spring 2025
- Winter 2024 - Will be updated soon!
- Leading Questions Winter 2024
- Late Fall 2024 - What Is Time For? : Everyone is too busy. How would we spend out time if we weren't? By Zena Hitz
- Leading Questions Late Fall 2024
- Fall 2024 - Love plays God. - In Love: A History, New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 1-13 (2011). By Simon May
- Leading Questions Fall 2024
2023-2024 Academic Year
- Spring 2024 - Commencement Address By Maya Angelou Leading Questions Spring 2024
- Winter 2024 - Will be updated soon!
- Late Fall 2023 - Will be updated soon!
- Fall 2023 - Desire and Delight: A New Reading of Augustine’s Confessions by Margaret R. Miles
Leading Questions Fall 2023
2022-2023 Academic Year
- Fall 2022 -
("Augustine as Mentor" by Edward L. Smither, Ch. 3
- Late Fall 2022 - ("Teaching Community: A Pegagogy of Hope by bell hooks, Ch 11)
- Winter 2023 -
- Spring 2023 -
2021-2022 Academic Year
- Fall 2021 - ("Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics and Spirituality", Ch 3)
- Late Fall 2021 - ("The Things Around Your Neck" pp 142-166, 2009)
- Winter 2022 - " ("On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real World Spirituality for Restless Hearts")
- Spring 2022 -
2020–2021 Academic Year
- Spring 2021 - Leading Questions for "The Hill We Climb
- Winter 2021 - Chapter 1: Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" - "On Fraternity and Social Friendship"
Leading Questions for Chapter 1 "On Fraternity and Social Freindship" - Late Fall 2020 - "Health is Membership" by Wendell Berry (Delivered as a Speech at the conference "Spirituality and Healing" 1994)
- Fall 2020 - "The Simplification of Life" by Thomas R. Kelly (A Testament of Devotion, Ch. 5)
2019–2020 Academic Year
- Fall 2019 - "Seeking the Place of Conscience in Higher Education: An Augustinian View" by Ian Clausen (edited version of Religions, 2015, 6, 286-298)
- Late Fall 2019 - "Babette's Feast" by Isak Dinesen
Leading Questions for Babette's Feast - Winter 2020 - "Glad Intellectual Dependence on God: A Theistic Account of Intellectual Humility" by Peter C. Hill, Kent Dunnington, and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall. (The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 2018, 37, No 3, Pages 195-204.
Leading Questions for "Glad Intellectual Dependence on God" - Spring 2020 - "Why Work?" by Dorothy Sayers
Leading Questions
2018–2019 Academic Year
- Fall 2018 - "Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America" by Mark R. Schwehn (Ch. 3 - Spirited Inquiry)
Leading Discussion Question for evening
- Late Fall 2018 - "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor
Audio of Flannery O'Connor reading "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
Leading Questions
- Winter 2018 - "The Screwtape Letters: Letters I, II, XXV, XXVII" by C.S. Lewis
Leading Questions for Screwtape Letters
- Spring 2019 - "Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual: Outlines of the Life of the Mind" by Paul J. Griffiths
Leading Questions for Screwtape Letters
2017–2018 Academic Year
- Spring 2018 - "Character and Vocation" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 10 - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)
- Winter 2017 - "Why Believe?" by John Cottingham (Ch. 1 - Belief & its Benefits)
- Late Fall 2017 - "Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling" by James W. Sire (Ch. VII - The Intellectual Disciplines)
- Fall 2017 - "What a Student Owes His Teacher" by James V. Schall, SJ and "Convictions" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 9 - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)
2016-2017 Academic Year
- Spring 2017 - "Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-given Potential" by Gordon Smith
- Winter 2017 - "Augustine and Liberal Education" by Kim Pattenroth and Kevin Hughes (editors)
- Late Fall 2017 - "Faith and the Life of the Intellect" by Curtis Hancock and Brendan Sweetman
- Fall 2016 - "St. Augustine: Continuum Library of Educational Thought" by Ryan Topping