Now more than ever, colleges must help students learn to cooperate across differences, writes Eboo Patel. Now is the time for your college to make pluralism a central principle of campus life. Yes, now, as you watch dueling protests on your quad and realize that diversity, free speech and social justice advocacy are important values for a college to uphold but incomplete without a commitment to cooperation across difference.
Fetzer’s involvement in spiritual literacy or “being able to find sacred meaning in all aspects of life” as Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat define it in their book Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life has been a longtime pursuit. It is a knowledge base that enlivens our work and relationships, an ongoing study both inspiring and humbling.