Questions on the table: What are the spiritual principles for our attitude and our actions in pursuing God's calling? How are attitude, action and audience part of our calling? The Attitude of the Called Our eyes and our heart should be on our God. Criticism and cynicism do not have a place in our calling. Mother (Teresa) believed that criticism weakens our will to obey, and that our will is the only thing that God will not take from us. Mother Teresa wrote to her sisters, "It is much easier to … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: Find yourself in doing, not criticizing
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Cynicism in the Academy
I have been thinking about cynicism lately, particularly of how pervasive it is in the academy and how easily it spills over into the rest of my life. What should I find, but a lecture about the very topic from one of our ESN mentors, Greg Ganssle. Thwarting Cynicism and Discontentment: Virtuous Practices of the Christian Scholar was presented at Faculty Commons' National Faculty Leadership Conference this past summer. Greg works with the Rivendell Institute, as well as serving as a lecturer in philosophy at Yale. … [Read more...] about Cynicism in the Academy