Brad Bursa

On the value of knowing nothing. When I started my doctoral studies, I was talking with a professor who had just completed his. I was saying something about realizing how much I didn’t know as I was working through graduate level coursework. Quite pithily, he said, “Yes. When you’re an undergraduate, you think you know…

As I was navigating a tough decision that would impact my future, a priest-mentor of mine told me to chill out. Then he gave me a little lesson on God’s providence. We’re prone to “make something happen.” It’s like a sickness. “Making” is an anxiety that replaces God’s providence with our own attempts to make…