What Do You Want? Pilgrimage and Desire in a Faraway Place

Thursday, February 16, 7 p.m.
Fried-Hemenway Auditorium
Martha Miller Center on the campus of Hope College

In asking his contemporaries what they wanted, Jesus points the way to an understanding of human beings as creatures ordered to desire. St. Augustine famously locates the center of our desire in the heart, and the proper object of our desire in God. But how well do we understand our desires, our wants, our longings? Not well enough, and perhaps not at all. In this talk, author and Hope College professor Richard Ray will tell the story of how a sacred journey to a sacred place resulted in a sacred purpose: the reordering of his desires and the reshaping of his heart.