A Life of Learning: A Love Story
I was pleased to read the August 10 post in the Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing Newsletter on the theme, “A Lifelong Quest: How We Learn Religion Differently Through Life Stages”. As I get older — I just turned 74 — I appreciate the theme of “a lifelong quest” all the more. As I look back over my long and mostly happy life, I have been asking myself what kind of learner I have been, including as a religious person, all these decades. As a boy, I started reading novels at about six years old, and I still read them now (invigorates the imagination). In high school, I was a lover of language learning, and as a double major in philosophy and classics, I read widely in the ancient and medieval Christian tradition in college and a few later, in seminary, preparing to become a Catholic priest (I was ordained in 1978), I learned much Christian theology.