<a href="https://www.ncstudycenter.org/events/“>The North Carolina Study Center at UNC-Chapel Hill is hosting me next week for a series of events. Two Benedict Option ones October 22, a Dante-influenced reflection on love and justice on on October 23, and a How Dante Can Save Your Life seminar on Saturday October 24. Follow the link for details. Come out and say hi and meet others interested in the Ben Op. After meeting and talking with folks in DC and Charlottesville, I’m even more excited about the opportunities for innovation and collaboration in Christian living in a post-Christian culture.

Let me urge you in particular to consider the Saturday Dante seminar. It costs a little something, and it’s four hours long, but I really do think you’ll get a lot out of it. This is not going to be literary criticism, but an in-depth conversation — not lecture, conversation — about how engaging with this poem was a means of radical, transformative grace for me, and how it can be for you too.

I am hoping there will be a little Hauerwas while I’m in the area, and barbecue too.

And hey Colorado Springs, I’m going to be in town giving a Benedict Option talk at the Anselm Society on October 31. Boo! More details to come shortly.