Cultivating the Courage to Be Curious
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People looking out on a marsh from a boat.
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People looking out on a marsh from a boat.
Writing in the (Duke) Chronicle, Chapel Dean Luke Powery advocates for a campus culture that “cultivate[s] the courage to be curious.”
“At a university with a value of discovery, questioning is at the heart of the academic quest,” he says. “It’s also fundamental to the spiritual quest.”
“Questions point to the unknown, the unresolved, the unchartered territories and the unmarked roads,” Dean Powery writes. “In spirituality or lived faith, there is also an invitation to embrace the practice of questioning and not always feeling as if we have to provide final answers.”
He concludes: “As you seek to discover through research and daily life, I hope you have more questions to live than answers to give.”