Education

“Leading Lives that Matter”

Published on January 4, 2010

Beginning Sunday, January 17, at 9:00 a.m. and continuing for five Sundays is an opportunity to gather with others and discuss readings focused on the topic of leading lives that matter.  The readings are from an anthology of a diverse group of authors including Albert Schweitzer, Annie Dillard, Aristotle, Theodore Roosevelet, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Homer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Robert Frost, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, John Milton, Amy Tan, Malcolm X, John Steinbeck, Frederick Buechner and even Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

The anthology revolves around various writers’ examination of seven core questions:

  1. Are some lives more significant than others?
  2. Must one’s job be the primary source of one’s identity?
  3. Is a balanced life possible and preferable to a life focused primarily on work?
  4. Should one follow his/her talents as he/she decides what to do to earn a living?
  5. To whom should one listen to when seeking advice on life decisions?
  6. Can one control what s/he does and becomes in life?
  7. How does one tell the story of his/her own life?