May 4, 2021
It’s college graduation season, and as a professor, I have a front-row seat to the glory every year. There’s plenty of pomp and circumstance, laughter and tears, and photos. So. Many. Photos.
If you’re a soon-to-be college grad, you’re likely equal parts excited and terrified. And no matter what, you’re bombarded with one question:
So, what are you going to do when you graduate?
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That’s a loaded question, chock full of purpose, significance, and direction; rife with tension and anxiety, full of your own expectations and the expectations of those who care about you the most.
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January 11, 2021
Knowledge and education are vital to surviving in our world. At young ages, we are sent to school to better understand the world in the hopes of successfully navigating it. Those who have not lacked education are among the most privileged individuals on this planet. Is it possible to be too educated? Absolutely not. But a danger we face with education is thinking we are in control of our lives and our future. After all, that’s the message sold to us in society: Go to college and you will get the perfect job. Get a 4.0 GPA and you will most likely end up in a high-paying job. Chase your dreams and you will be happy, the list goes on.
What do we do with the body? This isn’t a line from
Dexter. It’s no part of a murder mystery plot. This is a question about us.
We all have bodies. They are the way we are present to each other, the way we show up in the world. But at the same time, we have a sense of some unbodily part of ourselves a soul, a spirit, something inside and different from our skin.
Faith seems to be something on the spiritual side of things. Many of us have a sense that what’s “on the inside” is what really matters about a person. And whether we accept that or not, we still have this question we have to answer, what do we do with the body?
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