I’ll be honest with you: I’m a people-pleaser. I find it very difficult to speak up if I know that it might make others unhappy with me. But I’m also a teacher and coach, responsible to communicate truth to my students. That’s probably why I find this quote so challenging: […]
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Understanding and Belief
I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand: for this also I believe, that unless I believe, I will not understand. – Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – 1109) Anselm was a medieval archbishop of Canterbury, and a brilliant scholar, philosopher and […]
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. When I first read this quote, it gripped me immediately. Our relativistic postmodern culture scorns the notion of truth, and condemns anyone who holds absolute values of right and […]
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