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

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

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

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

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

conversation. I hope you'll enjoy it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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