May 7, 2023

I take it that this session — in a breakout track called “Ministry in the World” — is meant to press us back into the world. Steven was assigned to address chaos and confusion, and Erik the sexual revolution. Both of these begin with our being “in the world” and help us think about how…

Near the end of the Inferno, Dante encounters Homer’s famous character Ulysses (or Odysseus) suffering from the flame of desire. Surprisingly, however, Ulysses’s unchecked desire was not lust or gluttony, but intemperate curiosity. Dante imagines Ulysses, after his homecoming to Ithaca, overcome by wanderlust so that not even “my fondness for my son, nor pity…