College Visit with Yale's Miroslav Volf

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Yale offers a class called Life Worth Living, taught in part by an irresistible religion professor named Miroslav Volf, who has pulled readings from the ages into a curriculum that asks students to reflect on what makes a life “good.” As Miroslav says, “we’ve become experts at means but amateurs at ends.” This is a conversation to share with everyone in your immediate circles.

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0:00.0	Guess where I'm going today.
0:02.0	Where are you going?
0:03.0	Going to New Haven, Connecticut.
0:05.0	So jealous.
0:09.0	I am married to a man, Edward Lichten, who loved college.
0:14.0	He lives in an active state of gratitude that for four years, he got to travel from
0:19.0	Little Rock, Arkansas to New Haven, Connecticut to study hip-hop and film, Hawthorn, and the
0:25.0	history of the Depression, and still have plenty of time for pickup basketball and
0:29.6	touring with a ridiculously named singing group.
0:32.6	He and I have spent decades talking about what makes something worth doing, and ultimately,
0:37.6	what makes a life worthwhile, which leads me to today's guest, Miroslav Wolf.
0:43.6	He is a professor of theology at Yale, where he teaches a very popular class called
0:48.6	Life Worth Living.
0:50.6	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and we'll be right back with a very special episode of Kelly Corrigan
0:55.6	Wonders.
1:10.6	Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:12.6	I'm Kelly Corrigan.
1:13.6	It's a bold thing to call a class Life Worth Living.
1:18.4	To suggest that you've collected the wisdom of the ages and sequenced a curriculum that
1:22.8	can take college kids from, perhaps, a life of hedonism and sometimes chaos to something
1:29.2	more intentional and presumably fulfilling.
1:31.8	That's just what my friend Miroslav set out to do.
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