Dr. Esther Meek

Belmont RUF is thrilled to be able to participate in bringing Dr. Esther Lightcap Meek, prof. at Covenant Seminary and St. Louis Univ, and author of "Longing To Know" to Nashville to discuss the fresh and profound ideas of her book! See her website here

She will be speaking on Tuesday, Feb 17th from 7-9pm at Belmont in the University Ministries Center (where we meet for RUF) Click here for a map. This will be a FD convo event and is open to the public!

She will also be speaking at a nearby PCA Church, Midtown Fellowship's 12 South Art Venue on Thursday 2/19/04 at 7pm gearing the ideas of her book to artists and musicians in particular. This is also open to the public and the venue is located at 2907 12th Ave South - at the corner of 12th and Kirkwood. You can call Matthew or Ann at 269-9015 for more info on this.

And she will speak for Phi Sigma Tau, Belmont's Philosophy group, for another FD convo event Friday 2/20/04 at 10am. This will be in Fidelity Hall 301. See the map link above for directions.

Here is an overview of the message she will be presenting:

The Longing to Know Message

v It is profoundly important and productive to think about how we know what we know.

Western culture, including you and I, has been caught up in some wrongheaded notions about knowing. These misconceptions have actually kept us from recognizing, appreciating, and capitalizing on what we do when we know.

v When we go about knowing in the wrong way,

� We experience frustration;

� We develop damaging disconnects between:

� words and reality

� mind and body

� facts and values

� faith and reason

� science and artistry

� information and wisdom

� knowing and action

� knowledge and life

� knowledge and persons

� knowledge and ethics

� knowledge and love.

� In the end, many people conclude that you can?t know anything at all.

v When we go about knowing in the right way,

� We feel the relief of recognizing and accrediting our capacities, and unleashing our effectiveness;

� We restore our sense of confidence, joy and adventure;

� We reintegrate the disconnects;

� We reconnect with the world, with ourselves, and with God.

v Longing to Know?

� Names our mistaken ?default-mode? attempts at knowing and their damaging effects;

� Describes human knowing in a way that fits and confirms your day-to-day experience.

� Describes knowing as relying on clues to shape a pattern that unlocks the world.

� Knowing is ?from-to?

� Knowing relies on clues from our body, the world, and directions

� Knowing engages the real in interpersonal, covenantal relationship

� Helps you identify key features of the process and suggests how this new awareness will make you more effective in everything from playing golf to knowing God;

� Offers encouragement and hope to people stymied by questions about truth and certainty, belief and doubt, relativism and skepticism;

� Cultivates and empowers your longing to know in:

� Business and sports

� Science and art

� Religion

� Parenting, counseling and teaching.

v I believe that this message is critically important to the future of our lives, our work, our society, and human history.

Reformed University Fellowship

Dr. Esther Meek

The Longing to Know Message