On Leading Lives That Matter: Mark Schwehn

This past summer forced many of us to rethink what matters most—both personally and professionally. A pandemic that sent many of us home for months, sometimes jobless or furloughed. Emerging social protest movements that drew our attention to systemic injustices and political divisions that threaten the order of things. In anxious times, we might want to ask: what really matters? What sort of person should I be, in order to do justice to my neighbor? What sorts of loves should I cultivate, even when everything seems unstable? What am I called to do, personally and professionally, when things beyond my control have placed a giant question mark on so many things that used to be assumed?  

Thankfully, we have centuries of wisdom to draw on, from Plato and Confucius to Aquinas and Luther, to Mary Wollstonecraft and Frederick Douglass. And our guest today, Dr. Mark Schwehn, has spent decades cultivating this wisdom in the classroom and through his writing. I’m eager to share this conversation with him, and with you, the listeners.