"He was learned, liberal, amiable & pious"
So the other day I walked into my class, “The Art of Persuasive Writing” taught by Martha Gehringer expecting a normal class discussion like we normally have. So I was pretty surprised when Martha (who prefers we call her by her first name) walked in and asks us to gather all of our stuff, remain silent, and walk with her to a local cathedral.
What?!
As backstory, the night before we had been asked to read an essay about silence and how it can be pretty persuasive – sometimes more persuasive than anything; Martha described to us that she wanted us to experience the silence for ourselves in a truly authentic way. So, we put away our books and our cell phones and walked a few blocks away, in silence, to Christ’s Church Cathedral. Martha picked the church not for any religious reason, but more for the fact that churches are, typically, one of the few remaining ‘quiet places.’ Continue reading
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