They Speak to Me

Kids on college campuses these days who consider themselves religious will take a little bit of Thomas Merton, a little bit of Gandhi, a little bit of Mother Teresa, a little Elie Wiesel, Václav Havel, and they put it all into a mix. You say, “Hey, these are very different traditions.” And they’ll shrug their shoulders and say, “Well, maybe they are, but they speak to me.” ~Alan Wolfe in The Life of Meaning, p. 344

Who are five or so names speaking to you these days? ~jpc

Let the dialog deeply prod and sustain. Namaste.

image: from book cover of Great Peacemakers: True Stories from Around the World (2008) by Ken Beller and Heather Chase (many secular-spiritual leaders of college students have been peacemakers)