PAST READINGS AND DIALOGUES
Below are the various readings Scholars and Mentors have discussed in past dinners:
2022-2023 Academic Year
- Fall 2022 - "Who Mentored Augustine?" by Edward L. Smither
("Augustine as Mentor" by Edward L. Smither, Ch. 3
Leading Questions for Fall 2022 - Late Fall 2022 - "Teaching with Love" by bell hooks ("Teaching Community: A Pegagogy of Hope by bell hooks, Ch 11)
Leading Questions for Late Fall 2022 (bell hooks)
- Winter 2023 - "The Comforting Whirlwind" by Bill McKibben, Ch. 3.
Leading Questions for Winter 2023 (Bill McKibben)
- Spring 2023 - "Walking the Path" by David I Smith and Susan M. Felch, (Teaching and Christian Imagination by Smith and Felch, Part 1, Section 3, pg 42-57)
2021-2022 Academic Year
- Fall 2021 - "Hospitality - An Essential Virtue" by John B. Bennett ("Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics and Spirituality", Ch 3)
- Late Fall 2021 - "The Shivering" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ("The Things Around Your Neck" pp 142-166, 2009)
Points to Ponder for "The Shivering" - Winter 2022 - "Heart on the Run" by James KA Smith ("On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real World Spirituality for Restless Hearts")
- Leading Questions for "Heart on the Run"
- Spring 2022 - "Why Work?" by Dorothy Sayers
Leading Questions for "Why Work?"
2020–2021 Academic Year
- Fall 2020—"The Simplification of Life" by Thomas R. Kelly (A Testament of Devotion, Ch. 5)
- Late Fall 2020—"Health is Membership" by Wendell Berry (Delivered as a Speech at the conference "Spirituality and Healing" 1994)
- Winter 2021 - Chapter 1: Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" - "On Fraternity and Social Friendship"
Leading Questions for Chapter 1 "On Fraternity and Social Freindship" - Spring 2021 - "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman
Leading Questions for "The Hill We Climb"
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 2018-2019—"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—"Character and Vocation" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 10 - No Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)
- Winter—"Why Believe?" by John Cottingham (Ch. 1 - Belief & its Benefits)
- Late Fall—"Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling" by James W. Sire (Ch. VII - The Intellectual Disciplines)
- Fall—"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—"Faith and the Life of the Intellect" by Curtis Hancock and Brendan Sweetman
- Fall—"St. Augustine: Continuum Library of Educational Thought" by Ryan Topping