Community and Experience in Education
by Stephen G. Adubato My students are a constant reminder of my need for Divine providence—I end so many of my days on my knees moaning, “God, I have no idea how to teach these kids! Help me!” My school is located in the heart of downtown Newark, New Jersey--the #7...
Faith vs. Reason Revisited: A Case for “Natural” Ethics in Modern Discourse and Higher Education
by Jason J. Burtt Kierkegaard believed that at its apogee, Christian faith is beyond the reach of societal norms and universal ethics and entails what he calls a “teleological suspension” or surrender of the ethical. True faith goes beyond human reason and ethical...
Incarnate Learning: On Friendship and Liberal Education
by Monica Krason In L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of the Island, a sequel to the beloved classic Anne of Green Gables where the eponymous heroine goes off to college, Anne tells her friend Miss Lavendar , “I feel as if I had two homes—one at Green Gables and one at Patty’s...
Toward a ‘Healthy’ Vision of the Modern Person
by Andrew Borror On the first day of my public health course, the professor stated that the class would be focused on the human right to health. “Now, where that right comes from, that’s something we can’t get into.” I was puzzled. Why couldn’t we get into that?...
A Place of Our Own: The Scala Foundation Summer Seminar
by William Gonch The sun sets late in Yorkshire. As late as 10:30 in the summer you can walk out of the abbey church at Ampleforth, where the Scala Foundation summer seminar met, onto a wide stone patio raised twenty feet in the air. You look over a sweeping hill....
Christ’s Face in our Work
by Stephen Adubato | this piece originally appeared on the Letters page of Communion and Liberation. From June 28-July 9, a group of fourteen American graduate students met in England for the Scala Foundation’s Summer Seminar. Splitting their time between Magdalen...