Good Questions
I am reading “Spirit of the Cities” & in the essay by M. Shawn Copeland about urban ministry in Detroit, I found a quite deep set of questions I want to consider for myself:
Do I know what it means to make my own decisions? Do I know what I am making of myself in my daily choices and refusals? Do I understand that my liberty is the very delicate and fragile possibility of orienting myself in life for life eternal? Do I know what it means to respect others, to be in love with them? Do I know what it means to be a human person? Under what cultural and social conditions can human beings be truly and fully human persons? Do I grasp that conditions for human flourishing are the results of acts of human judgment and decision? Do I sufficiently grasp that the conditions for human flourishing are not something extrinsic, something pre-fabricated, something already out there now?