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☆ What We Give Up for Lent Makes Us Who We Are - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Molly Worthen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Chanequa Walker-Barnes, a professor of practical theology and pastoral care at Columbia Theological Seminary in Georgia, has an unusual approach to Lent. Instead of giving up chocolate or fasting, “sometimes I’ll say I’m giving up self-neglect,” she told me. The reaction from others surprised her: “First friends, and then strangers told me they were following the Lenten challenge. Dr. Walker-Barnes is one of many Christians who are reclaiming Lent, the 40 days of reflection, repentance and self-denial before Easter. The earliest Christians marked the lead-up to Easter with a short period of fasting and repentance.
Persons: Chanequa Walker, Barnes, ”, “, Dr, Walker, . Walker, Pope Gregory I Organizations: Columbia Theological Seminary, Ash Locations: Georgia, Rome
☆ Opinion | Cloisters U.: The Sounds of Silence in a College Class
  + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “Universities, Meet Monasteries,” by Molly Worthen (Opinion guest essay, May 28):Dr. Worthen’s essay resonated deeply with me. I am a tutor and the incoming dean of St. John’s College, Santa Fe, one of the oldest colleges in America, a college with an enduring commitment to seminar-style discussion and the close reading of the Great Books. Without fanfare, year after year, St. John’s continues to offer a program of study that requires little more than a great book, a seminar table and the participants around that table. St. John’s is not a monastery, but it does provide a cloister where devices and the pull of the virtual world have no place. The education requires the students to be present to their thoughts, to the comments of their classmates, to the beauty of the texts.
Persons: Molly Worthen, John’s, Worthen Organizations: “, John’s, St Locations: Santa Fe, America
☆ What College Students Need Is a Taste of the Monk’s Life - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Molly Worthen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
“On college campuses, these students think they’re all being individuals, going out and being wild,” he said. Undergraduates at Belmont Abbey College outside Charlotte, N.C., share their quadrangles, sidewalks and even their chess clubs with Benedictine monks who live in an abbey in the middle of campus. Their presence compels even non-Christians on campus to think seriously about vocation and the meaning of life. “Either what the monks are doing is valuable and based on something true, or it’s completely ridiculous,” Mr. Lutz said. The point is not to take away the phone for its own sake but to take away our primary sources of distraction.
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