Faith & Life Lecture Series

Beneath the roiling responsibilities, activities, demands, deadlines, hopes and frustrations, plans and possibilities, worries, reliefs, disappointments, and dreams of every day, there is a Question simmering.

As with the most truly important things, it is hard to put precise words to this question, but it goes something like this: What kind of lives would be worthy of our shared humanity?

Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz will introduce this question and show how, through intentional reflection on the suggestions it contains, we can come to a firmer understanding of what really matters and why.

• Faith & Lecture Series: The Most Important Question of our Lives
• Faith & Lecture Series: The Most Important Question of our Lives

Major streams in modern cultures assume that a good life is, first and foremost, one that feels good.

By listening to dissenting voices, both ancient and modern, we can question this assumption and find our way to deeper insight about the emotional texture of lives worth seeking and hoping for.

The suffering we undergo and witness poses urgent, insistent existential questions:

How ought we respond to suffering?
How can we live through or beyond suffering?

In this participatory, dialogical session, Croasmun and McAnnally-Linz will invite you into reflection and conversation about what place, if any, suffering might have in flourishing human lives, so that when the time comes, we all might be a little better prepared to respond to the existential questions of suffering in our lives.