Catholic College Identity, Poet Christian Wiman

The debate over what it means to be a Catholic school; Poet Christian Wiman

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Catholic College Identity, Poet Christian Wiman Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

Premiered October 25, 2013

Catholic College Identity, Poet Christian Wiman

We visit two universities with different ideas about maintaining their Catholic identity, and we talk with poet Christian Wiman, senior lecturer in religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, about God, religious faith, suffering, and poetry as a spiritual guide.

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Is a Catholic university still “a place where the Church can do its thinking”?

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Catholic College Identity

Watch more of our interview with poet Christian Wiman.

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Christian Wiman Extended Interview

He has incurable cancer, yet this writer believes “death is here to teach us something."

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Poet Christian Wiman

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