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David Brooks and Miroslav Volf Character, Flourishing & the Good Life Monday February 22 | 7pm Battell Chapel 400 College St. New Haven, CT Free and open to the public Book Signing to follow at Calhoun College Dining Hall Reserve Free Tickets humanflourishing.eventbrite.com WHAT MAKES A LIFE WORTH LIVING? Today, more than at any previous time in history, the question of the good life is a pressing one. Once upon a time this question came pre-answered—by culture, by religion, by tradition—but these days, we each have to ask and answer for ourselves: What is the good life? What does it mean to live a flourishing life? These are difficult questions that require intellectual muscles we’ve long let atrophy; we need one another’s help to ask and answer them well. But one begins to wonder: How do we even begin to have this conversation together, if each of us must answer these questions for ourselves? Join us for a conversation with David Brooks and Miroslav Volf, two people who are thinking deeply about these questions, as they discuss how to reason about these profound questions and how to live out meaningful answers. David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times and a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale, is the author of The Road to Character (2015). Miroslav Volf, Professor of Systematic Theology & Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture, is the author of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016). a conversation Yale Center for Faith & Culture Sponsored by:

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Page 1: David Brooks and Miroslav Volf - Yale UniversityCharacter, Flourishing & the Good Life Monday February 22 | 7pm Battell Chapel 400 College St. New Haven, CT Free and open to the public

David Brooks and Miroslav Volf Character, Flourishing & the Good Life

Monday February 22 | 7pmBattell Chapel 400 College St. New Haven, CT

Free and open to the publicBook Signing to follow at Calhoun College Dining Hall

Reserve Free Tickets humanflourishing.eventbrite.com

WHAT MAKES A LIFE WORTH LIVING?Today, more than at any previous time in history, the question of the good life is a pressing one. Once upon a time this question came pre-answered—by culture, by religion, by tradition—but these days, we each have to ask and answer for ourselves: What is the good life? What does it mean to live a flourishing life? These are difficult questions that require intellectual muscles we’ve long let atrophy; we need one another’s help to ask and answer them well. But one begins to wonder: How do we even begin to have this conversation together, if each of us must answer these questions for ourselves?

Join us for a conversation with David Brooks and Miroslav Volf, two people who are thinking deeply about these questions, as they discuss how to reason about these profound questions and how to live out meaningful answers.

David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times and a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale, is the author of The Road to Character (2015).

Miroslav Volf, Professor of Systematic Theology & Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture, is the author of Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016).

a conversation

Yale Center for Faith & Culture