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Below are the various readings Scholars and Mentors have discussed in past dinners:

2024-2025 Academic Year

• Spring 2025 - This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us By Cole Arthur Riley
• Leading Questions Spring 2025
• Winter 2024 - Will be updated soon!
• Leading Questions Winter 2024
• Late Fall 2024 - What Is Time For? : Everyone is too busy. How would we spend out time if we weren't? By Zena Hitz
• Leading Questions Late Fall 2024
• Fall 2024 - Love plays God. - In Love: A History, New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 1-13 (2011). By Simon May
• Leading Questions Fall 2024

2023-2024 Academic Year

• Spring 2024 - Commencement Address By Maya AngelouÌýLeading Questions Spring 2024
• Winter 2023 - Will be updated soon!
• Late Fall 2023 - Will be updated soon!
• Fall 2023 -ÌýDesire and Delight:Ìý A New Reading of Augustine’s ConfessionsÌýby Margaret R. Miles
  Leading Questions Fall 2023

2022-2023 Academic Year

• Fall 2022 -ÌýÌý
  ("Augustine as Mentor" by Edward L. Smither, Ch. 3
  
• Late Fall 2022 -ÌýÌý("Teaching Community: A Pegagogy of Hope by bell hooks, Ch 11)
  
  
• Winter 2023 -Ìý
  
  
• Spring 2023 -Ìý

2021-2022 Academic Year

• Fall 2021 -ÌýÌý("Academic Life: Hospitality, Ethics and Spirituality", Ch 3)
  
• Late Fall 2021 -ÌýÌý("The Things Around Your Neck" pp 142-166, 2009)
  
• Winter 2022 -Ìý"Ìý("On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real World Spirituality for Restless Hearts")
  
• Spring 2022 -Ìý
  

2020–2021 Academic Year

• Spring 2021Ìý -ÌýÌýLeading Questions for "The Hill We Climb
• Winter 2021 -ÌýChapter 1: Encyclical "Fratelli Tutti" - "On Fraternity and Social Friendship"
  Leading Questions for Chapter 1 "On Fraternity and Social Freindship"
• Late Fall 2020 -Ìý"Health is Membership" by Wendell BerryÌý(Delivered as a Speech at the conference "Spirituality and Healing" 1994)
• Fall 2020 -Ìý"The Simplification of Life" by Thomas R. KellyÌý(A Testament of Devotion, Ch. 5)

2019–2020 Academic Year

• Fall 2019 - "Seeking the Place of Conscience in Higher Education: An Augustinian View" by Ian Clausen (edited version of Religions, 2015, 6, 286-298)
  
• Late Fall 2019 - "Babette's Feast" by Isak Dinesen
  Leading Questions for Babette's Feast
• Winter 2020 - "Glad Intellectual Dependence on God: A Theistic Account of Intellectual Humility" by Peter C. Hill, Kent Dunnington, and M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall. (The Journal of Psychology and Christianity, 2018, 37, No 3, Pages 195-204.
  Leading Questions for "Glad Intellectual Dependence on God"
• Spring 2020 -Ìý"Why Work?" by Dorothy Sayers
  Leading Questions Ìý

2018–2019 Academic Year

• Fall 2018 - "Exiles from Eden: Religion and the Academic Vocation in America" by Mark R. Schwehn (Ch. 3 - Spirited Inquiry)
  Leading Discussion QuestionÌýfor evening
  
• Late Fall 2018 - "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor
  Audio of Flannery O'Connor reading "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"
  Leading Questions
  
• Winter 2018 - "The Screwtape Letters: Letters I, II, XXV, XXVII" by C.S. LewisÌý
  Leading Questions for Screwtape Letters
  
• Spring 2019 - "Letter to an Aspiring Intellectual: Outlines of the Life of the Mind"Ìýby Paul J. GriffithsÌý
  Leading Questions for Screwtape LettersÌý Ìý Ìý Ìý

2017–2018 Academic Year

• Spring 2018 -Ìý"Character and Vocation"Ìýby Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 10 -ÌýNo Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)
• Winter 2017 - "Why Believe?" by John CottinghamÌý (Ch. 1 -ÌýBelief & its Benefits)
• Late Fall 2017 - "Habits of the Mind: Intellectual Life as a Christian Calling" by James W. SireÌý (Ch. VII -ÌýThe Intellectual Disciplines)
• Fall 2017 - "What a Student Owes His Teacher" by James V. Schall, SJÌý and "Convictions" by Douglas and Rhoda Jacobsen (Ch. 9 -ÌýNo Longer Invisible: Religion in University Education)

2016-2017 Academic Year

• Spring 2017 -Ìý"Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-given Potential"Ìýby Gordon Smith
• Winter 2017 -Ìý"Augustine and Liberal Education"Ìýby Kim Pattenroth and Kevin Hughes (editors)
• Late Fall 2017 -Ìý"Faith and the Life of the Intellect"Ìýby Curtis Hancock and Brendan Sweetman
• Fall 2016 -Ìý"St. Augustine: Continuum Library of Educational Thought"Ìýby Ryan Topping