In the second episode of our new resource series The Role of the Public Intellectual in a Just Society, listeners will be inspired to move from discussion to public action and bring about a world that’s more just and compassionate for all, as they listen along to David and Debo Dykes discuss Joan Chittister's words.

Sr. Joan describes in this lecture the job of the public intellectual – to keep an awareness of tradition, but to never let that tradition become stale or to suppress fresh ideas. Ideas have the power to stir the pot, which is good. Intellectuals can present fresh, outsider ideas but must do so within the public sphere, finding ways to involve all voices. She says:

“An institution that is valid and authentic does not die still born, they live from age to age, they adapt to every age so that the best of that wisdom can liveon in every age even when you cut off the old translations, the old liturgical formats, the old blessings.”

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