by ICLE Team | Sep 17, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Many consider “cultural relativism” a new phenomenon. But people have long recognized that cultures differ in their moral beliefs and practices. It was not a modern anthropologist, but the Greek historian Herodotus who observed, “if one were to offer men to choose out...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
I love directing Shakespeare’s plays. Since the words mean everything in a successful performance, I am always faced with the challenge of interpreting every speech, every difficult passage, every seemingly insignificant scene. I delight in discovering the dramatic...
by ICLE Team | Sep 11, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
Allan Bloom began his Closing of the American Mind with this memorable observation: “There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.” (25) College...
by ICLE Team | Sep 4, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
There are always students at the beginning of my Moral Theology course who wonder why the class matters. To them, “moral theology” is perhaps a pretentious way of getting immersed in a set of rules dictated by the Church. For a significant number of these students,...
by ICLE Team | Apr 20, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
This disturbing article about Netflix’s new Anne of Green Gables series by AnnaMussmann hit me close to home. I did not discover Lucy Montgomery’s works until I was an adult on the verge of marriage, but as a romantic I was deeply moved by the 1985 miniseries. I read...
by ICLE Team | Feb 7, 2017 | Member School Content, When I Discovered Your Words Blog
One of the delightful aspects of having discussion classes on original works is how often I am completely surprised by what students uncover that I didn’t expect. Four brief examples from recent discussions: 1) A very simple one: In discussing the Amendments to the...
