The Moral Imagination

I would like to spend a little bit of time this evening talking with you about things that don’t appear in our daily newspapers but that are happening in so many ways around our world. What does appear in our news– In fact, I was reminded that this week when I started teaching again this semester, I have about the second or third class period in the semester. I typically take a news article to the class in order to demonstrate one of the ideas that are in one of the books that I have written with the students, to take an actual situation reported in the news and see if we can see some of the notions that play out. And I can trust that when that session comes, that morning newspaper will have something to give me to take the class. Meaning that some place in the world, something will have happened that will catch the eye of the news, and it generally will be the sensational and the highest level of looking at a conflict that probably has been brewing for twenty or thirty or forty years. But somehow, they’ll capture in a few columns that which they paid most attention to – that something has fallen apart and that the human community is not working well and that there’s a good bit of violence…