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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

Recent Site Updates

LTK Posts:

Common Grounds Online (posted 12.04.07): Take off your two-dimensional glasses
Comment Magazine: Making the Most of College: Learning with Friends

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

LTK update: June 2007

I hope you are prospering as your journey of "being on the way to knowing" (Newbigin's phrase) continues to unfold.

Esther at Geneva College
I have completed my third year of teaching at Geneva College. In that time I have developed and taught new courses in Christian Understanding of Life, Reformed Epistemology, Aquinas, Postmodernism, Twentieth Century British Philosophy, Women Philosophers, and Philosophy of Science. The learning curve has been steep but good! Read more.

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