The Micah Seminar

Based on Micah 6:8 (“He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”), this daily two hour seminar is at the heart of the Narthex Community. The Socratic dialogue will involve all learners at Narthex, regardless of grade level, and the texts we gather around will focus each year on the themes of justice, mercy, and humility. On Thursdays, the seminar will take place in the evening as a symposium, open to the broader community. We are still generating our reading lists and welcome your input. You can do that in a couple ways: purchase any book you’d recommend that is sold by The Rabbit Room and send it to Narthex Community of Learners, 23 East Palmer Street, Indianapolis, IN 46225 or send us a message with the title of any book you think we should add to our Amazon wishlist.

    • This seminar meets Indiana high school requirements for English and US History and Government.

    • The course explores questions of how justice has historically been understood and portrayed in American democracy, the intersections of civic responsibilities and responsibilities of Christian conscience, and what it means to act justly in the United States today.

    • Authors will likely include: American founders, Willa Cather, Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Brian Stevenson, Amy Tan, Lorraine Hansberry, Pat Mora, Joy Harjo, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Flannery O’Connor, Edwidge Danticat

    • This seminar will meet the course requirements for English and International history and world cultures.

    • As students explore mercy in a global context, they will consider the human cost of war and injustice while exploring how compassion, and reconciliation have been understood and pursued around the globe. Asking questions such as, “What does it mean to love mercy in a world marked by violence and division?” learners are invited to imagine and embody what it means to love mercy in our world today.

    • Authors will likely include: Sophocles, St. Augustine, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Anton Chekhov, Chinua Achebe, Khaled Hosseini, Wislawa Szymborska, Elie Wiesel, Ishmael Beah, Alan Paton

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