Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to off-campus conversations here on the

Tomistic Institute podcast, where we follow up with TI speakers, who will have lectured

on campus or at a conference or

at an intellectual retreat and chase down some insights or just simply continue the conversation.

So for this installment, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Raymond Hayne from Providence College.

Thanks so much for joining.

Thanks for having me.

So people may know you from other T.I. Talks that you

have given. At one point, you're going to give a talk at the University of Maryland called

Literature as Philosophy, but whether, I suppose, delays or cancellations made it impossible.

And I think that was one of the first T.I. Talks that I ever gave because the University of

Maryland isn't too far from the Dominican Asa Studies.

And so I, yes, said random things in patchwork fashion, a pastiche of truths with no methodology.

But you have succeeded in giving other to Mystic Institute talks, which required less in the way of kind of cobbling together and recovering.

But would you just say a word of introduction, who you are, where you're kind of cobbling together and recovering. But would you

just say a word of introduction, who you are, where you're from, and what you do? Absolutely.

Thanks again for having me. So I teach at Providence College in Rhode Island, which is the

college of the Eastern Province Dominicans. So I'm delighted to have a lot of your brothers

around all the time up here at

Providence College. I'm in the philosophy department, but I also help run the humanities program

at Providence College, which does a lot of things. It has some degree programs, both in the humanities,

the interdisciplinary studies, and in Catholic Studies studies we run a conference we've

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