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Discernment

Becoming a discerning people

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Rooted Yet Awake

To become a discerning people.

Anne Snyder
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Multitudes of Goods

Ignatian wisdom for passionate idealists.

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Vol. 43

No. Issue

04

Rooted Yet Awake

To become a discerning people.

Anne Snyder
09

Listen

The wind is speaking, but we’re living in a motorboat world.

Chris Owen
17

Multitudes of Goods

Ignatian wisdom for passionate idealists.

Tara Isabella Burton
Explore

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Why Have Children?

Thinking with patience, rigour, and generosity about a contentious topic.
Essay
- Nathan Beacom
Moral Identity Politics

Imagining a form of life freed from fear.
Essay
- David Brooks
Wisdom Is Not Intelligence

Why the voyage of life demands something deeper.
Traditions
- Louis Kim,
- Maxim Kim
Journeys of Discernment

Slow paths to sacred callings.
Essay
- John D. Witvliet
The Emotional Landscape of Discernment

A Litany of Praise and Petition.
Symposium
How to Discern

Perspectives on wise decision-making from our authors.
Essay
- Milton Friesen
Dangerous Beasts

Institutional pathologies that undermine the common good.
Essay
- Christina Bieber Lake
Essaying Discernment

The role of imagination in cultivating wisdom.
Essay
- Robert Joustra
Punching Blind

Why grand theories of church and culture often fail the test of place.
Essay
- Abram Van Engen
Discerning Our Place in History

The challenge of the Christian’s call to remember.
Essay
- Joshua Hochschild
Are the Martyrs Prudent?

Exploring the compatibility of the classical virtue and the radical call to lay down one’s life.

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