Week 4: The Pope’s Speech
This week we’ll be discussing the Pope’s speech that has sparked recent controversy.
Should be interesting.
Thinking about Cities
At Matt’s suggestion this week we are reading two 9-page articles from Baylor’s latest edition of Christian Reflection titled “Cities and Towns.“
Here are the two we’ll be discussing:
“Dysfunctional Cities: Where Did We Go Wrong?” by Lee Hardy
“The New Urbanism” by Eric Jacobsen
Don’t feel pressured that you have to read them to participate. As grad students we know about skimming!
Week 2: The DNA Age
This NYTimes headline Couples Cull Embryos to Halt Heritage of Cancer caught my eye this week. It’s super interesting and is filed under their series “The DNA Age.”
Our discussion will mainly focus on the NYTimes article but if you want some counter points Chad pointed out this website of a Catholic Priest with some interesting thoughts.
If people have other articles that might be helpful then post them in the comments.
See you tomorrow!
Week 1: Brainstorming
It’s Thursday and since no topics have been proposed we’ll spend this Friday lunch brainstorming topics for the semester and deciding who gets to find articles.
See you at noon!
Taking Topics
If you’re interested in proposing a topic (or many topics) for discussion one Friday this fall then you should post them in the form of a comment here.
Generally topics are fairly broad and have 5 – 10 pages of reading in the form of magazine articles or book reviews. Topics in the past have included political, economic, theological, social, and philosophical subjects.
People will read the articles and then we’ll assemble and kick around the ideas for an hour to an hour and a half. Hopefully we’ll have the same good discussions with as many different perspectives as before.
Once topics start to come in I’ll work on contacting folks in order to get the readings to post here by the week we discuss it.
How I’m Envisioning This Working
Hello Folks.
The vision for this blog is to provide a web address that each person can access on Thursday or Friday of each week to see what this week’s topic and readings are. That way you’ll be able to know each week what’s on the agenda and what the readings are.
Hopefully I’ll have links and files posted for download before our weekly meetings which I’m will be Fridays at noon in Frank Porter Graham lounge (Rm. 3108) on the second floor of the Student Union.
