Suppers

Questions

• Where do you fall on the top-down versus bottom-up question of social change? Why?
• Is conversion–whether individual or societal–more about fulfillment or overthrow?
• Does online life change the nature of your relationships or just foreground your desire for connection?
• How does the concept of
 “spiritual motherhood” strike you? Can you recall a time when you’ve been the beneficiary of its logic?
• What broad cultural shift has been hardest on you over the last decade? Conversely, is there one that has eased the way for greater faithfulness?

Dinner

We recommend a Spring Vegetable Gnocchi paired with Domaine de l’Aumonier, Touraine, Sauvignon Blanc. A special thanks to Amy at Team Vino for the wine pairing!

Playlist

Questions

• What types of experiences draw you to wonder? What inhibits it?
• Is humanity a quantifiable thing? Have you ever had a time when you felt fully human?
• Have you ever refused to do something because you feel it diminishes your, or someone else’s, humanity?
• Is suffering intrinsic to being human? Why or why not?
• How do you talk to your children about what sex is and is for? If you don’t have kids, how do you think you would talk to them about it?
• What practices can help us recognize and value the humanity of those with whom we radically disagree?

Dinner

This bold and delicious Moqueca Baiana (Brazilian fish stew) cooks up in less than thirty minutes.

Playlist

Questions

• How do you define friendship?
• What makes good boundaries in friendship?
• Would you ever consider formalizing a friendship in any way? For what reason(s)?
• Can friendship be made into a political policy?
• Do you find friendship to be an aid to creativity or a hindrance? Or both?
• Do you welcome “brutal friends”? Reflect on a time when you were grateful for a friend’s correction.
• Has a friendship ever cost you?

Dinner

We have yet to meet someone who doesn’t love these Banh Mi Bowls.

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Questions

• How many dimensions do you feel your life has at present? What are they?
• Which sphere seems most abnegated today? What does our common life lose as a result? What would it take to reactivate it?
• What examples of healthy cross-pollination have you observed in our public life today? Where have norms been blurred or switched in unhealthy ways?
• What has had more of a formative influence on your loves and commitments: spheres or “scenes”?
• What sources do you go to for greater integration between head, heart, and helping hand? What additional sources could you try?
• Where do the communities in your life overlap? Where do you wish they would or wouldn’t?

Dinner

Break your Lenten fasts and celebrate the spheres with Crêpes Suzette.

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