Dr. Thomas Varacalli, Dean of the Honors College, and Dr. Christine Boor, Chair of Classical Liberal Education, join us from Belmont Abbey College to discuss the revival of Catholic liberal education, the distinctives of the Abbey’s Honors College, and the formative power of friendship, contemplation, and intellectual tradition. Together they explore what it means to build a genuinely Christian college in an age of fragmentation.

In this episode, we discuss:
📖 The founding vision of the Belmont Abbey Honors College and how it integrates faith and reason
📖 How the Great Books shape students to become seekers rather than specialists
📖 Why friendship is at the heart of the Abbey’s intellectual life

LINKS:
➡️ Belmont Abbey Honors College: https://www.bac.edu/academics/honors-...

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