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Good Faith CLASSIC: College, God, and the Good Life (with Meghan Sullivan and David French)

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51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this Good Faith Classic episode, Curtis and David talk with Meghan Sullivan, philosopher, teacher, and creator of the most popular class at the University of Notre Dame, “God and the Good Life.” As many of us send our kids off to college (or head off to college ourselves), Meghan helps us appreciate the role of education–and of philosophy in particular–in helping students take on the big questions of life.

Show Notes:

The Good Life Method by Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko

God and the Good Life (Notre Dame course)

What is Philosophy?: Crash Course Philosophy #1

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, this is Curtis and for this week we are bringing you a good faith classic

0:21.8

that is triggered by the fact that it's the fall and many of us who are parents have

0:27.2

sent or dropped off or have heard back from our kids who have gone to college. And I thought

0:33.5

this would be a great time for us to bring back a good faith classic of our conversation

0:37.6

with Megan Sullivan on the nature of college, God and the good life. It's a really fun

0:44.2

conversation. I hope you'll enjoy it.

0:46.6

Yes, Megan Sullivan is our guest and a long time friend of mine. And let me just say

0:54.9

I wanted to talk about this topic of sending our kids or ourselves, if you're a college

1:01.4

listener, going back to school, I just dropped off one of my daughters to her freshman year.

1:08.3

And as I was leaving, I was pondering this question, what do I really hope for her? Like

1:13.8

what is, what is my, sort of my highest hope that she will experience in her four years

1:19.3

of college? And I realized it was like, I hope she finds a professor that helps her ask

1:27.0

the big questions of life. And I thought, well, who would be an example of such a professor?

1:32.9

And that's when I thought Megan Sullivan. So Megan Sullivan is the Will Z family collegiate

1:38.6

professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She also serves as the director

1:43.2

of the Institute of Advanced Study, which is one of their primary think tanks at Notre

1:48.9

Dame. And this is, I guess, her unofficial title of being, this is probably going to cause

1:54.2

problems for her on campus. But, but as, let's say, one of the most popular professors

2:00.9

at the University, because she teaches a course that she created called God and the Good

2:05.2

Life, God and the Good Life, which is one of or if not the most popular class at Notre

2:13.0

Dame, I got to know Megan because I started about 12 years ago, a program called Veritas

2:20.0

Riff with our good friends, Andy Crouch and Michael Lindsay and our partners at Veritas

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