Hi everyone, we have an exciting update. We are launching our What Matters course.

Div School available to the masses. It is a season of close reading and

community and it starts this August and registration is open now.

Vanessa, you know it's better than Div School because no one's going to require you to take

Biblical Greek. It's true. Oh, maybe they will. What, so what are you going to require

to read? No Biblical Greek here Matt. We are going to be reading a tale for the

time being by Ruth Ozeki, my brilliant friend by Elena Feronte and Transcendent Kingdom

by Yagyasi. And we are going to be using these books in conversation with the practices

of sacred reading, storytelling, and chaplaincy in order for people to figure out what matters

to them, what values they hold and how to better live up to them.

Vanessa, I joked about this being better than Div School but I taught a class for you

in the last round of What Matters and it was seriously one of the most fulfilling teaching

experiences I've had in recent years. Like the group you had was so engaged and so invested

in the conversation and so honest and open with their questions and also with receiving answers.

I mean I taught a book that I've taught many times and written about many times and I learned

many new things from your community and it's an experience I'm still really grateful for.

Yeah, I think part of that Matt is just that it's a really small cohort that stays together

all year and there are three, I was going to say incredible professors, I'm one of them but you know

two other really wonderful teachers and the cohort just really bonds and each of the teachers gets

one on one time or small group time with this group and it just sounds like being a really meaningful

experience. So if you are looking for some meaning making in your life or if you like what we're

up to on Harry Potter and the Sacred Text we really think that you will enjoy What Matters.

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