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This is the website of Esther Lightcap Meek, author of Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (Brazos, 2003). Here you can learn more about the book and the author, and you can find related resources and join the conversation developing out of LTK's proposals. Here's to indeterminate future manifestations of a most delightful sort!

Convivially,
Esther

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LTK update: August 2008

To: Extraordinary friends
From: Esther Meek
Re: Longing to Know

Greetings to you in your many epistemic ventures and adventures. I trust that you are well, blending passion and patience as you long to know. Read more.

Your Comments about LTK

June, 2007 -- Dr. Meek,
I am an adjunct professor of political science at Belmont University in Nashville, TN, the school where Kevin Twit is RUF minister.  …Kevin has introduced me to your book, which I am currently devouring (with much pleasure, I might add!) with plans to use it as one of my major textbooks in the fall.  …

I've been invited to teach what Belmont calls their "freshman seminar" in the fall.  …Each class is centered around "ways of knowing," which each professor is then able to tailor to their specific discipline. …

I want to use your book not just as a counterbalance to this assertion, but as one of the main texts of my class, encouraging students to think through what it means to know, and how this plays out not only in the way we see our faith and every other thing we actively "know" in our lives, but also how it plays out in the way we as individuals attack our professional acts of knowing.  And how those are so actively connected...breaking down that wall between our spiritual and professional lives.  As you'll see from my class description, I'm going to use examples of intelligence failures (the political science element) as my case studies for this class.  Since I'm still reading your book, I'm still working out the connections between the business of intelligence (I was an intelligence analyst in a former, pre-baby life) and your philosophies of knowing, but I'm already compiling a long list.

-Becca McBride

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